Jennifer M. Auchtung

This study examines how human gut microbiomes respond to cadmium exposure, identifying distinct responses based on microbial composition and highlighting the role of Anaerostipes in Cd resilience.

This study investigates how flagellar and T4P gene mutants affect C. difficile's ability to adhere to mucosal surfaces and find that multiple factors influence mucosal adhesion.

The paper identifies mucinolysomes as multi-enzyme complexes in gut microbiomes, showing their presence across 65 genomes and higher prevalence in farm animals than humans.

This study evaluates how different antibiotics affect gut microbiota in two preclinical models, showing varied impacts across taxa and highlighting model-specific differences in antibiotic susceptibility.

The paper develops a novel measure, CheSL Shannon diversity, to quantify carbohydrate complexity's effects on microbial diversity, interactions, and function in human fecal samples.

This study shows that C. difficile colonization in an in vitro model is not dependent on bile salts but relies on proline fermentation via Stickland pathway, with context-dependent effects.