Sheetal S. Hardikar

This study identifies Leptotrichia wadei as a pro-tumorigenic bacterium in CRC by linking metabolic specialization to microbial niches and tumor progression.

The paper identifies microbiome markers in primary colorectal cancer tumors that predict distant metastasis risk using cohort data and molecular techniques.

This study examines epigenetic, microbiome, and immune differences in early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) compared to average-onset CRC, finding accelerated epigenetic aging and stronger immune-microbe correlations in EOCRC.

This study identifies Candida albicans colonization in colorectal tumors as a factor linked to reduced survival and impaired radiation response.

This study identifies obesity-driven inflammatory and metabolic transcriptomic signatures in mouse and human colon tumors through integrated transcriptomic analyses.

The paper introduces MEGA, a tool to identify cancer-associated microbes using RNA-seq data from the ORIEN dataset, leveraging graph attention networks and microbial community information.