Mehrbod Estaki

This study links medication use to distinct gut microbial features in anxiety and depression, showing antidepressants have a larger effect on microbiota than diagnoses.

This paper introduces a bio-engineered probiotic with a persistence feature that improves efficacy in colitis models, showing reduced inflammation and enhanced mucosal healing.

BIRDMAn is a Bayesian framework for differential abundance analysis in microbiome studies, showing improved statistical power and detecting antibiotic effects and cancer classifiers.

EMPress provides an interactive tool for visualizing phylogenetic trees alongside multi-omic data, enabling exploratory analyses of microbiome and metabolome datasets.