Luiz Fernando Würdig Roesch

This study uses a gnotobiotic rice system to show that microbiome colonization reduces rice blast disease severity by promoting a regulated immune state rather than just increasing defense activation.

This study shows that cannabinoid receptor deficiencies in mice affect immune responses and microbiota during Salmonella infection, with CB1R and CB2R having distinct roles in host defense and immune regulation.

The paper introduces a joint model with matching and regularization to detect OTU-specific compositional trajectories predictive of disease onset in metagenomic data.

PIME identifies novel microbial community differences by filtering noisy data and improving detection of important taxa previously missed.