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Alan W. Walker is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and specializes in research spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work includes a significant focus on molecular biology, infectious diseases, food science, nutrition and dietetics, and physiology.

The research topics covered in Walker's publications primarily address gut microbiota and health, probiotics and fermented foods, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, diet and metabolism studies, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and child nutrition and water access.

Walker has contributed to several notable scientific papers, including:

  • The impact of the Fungus-Host-Microbiota interplay upon Candida albicans infections: current knowledge and new perspectives, 2020, published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies, 2023, published in Nature
  • Lung function and microbiota diversity in cystic fibrosis, 2020, published in Microbiome
  • Pivotal Roles for pH, Lactate, and Lactate-Utilizing Bacteria in the Stability of a Human Colonic Microbial Ecosystem, 2020, published in mSystems
  • Human microbiome myths and misconceptions, 2023, published in Nature Microbiology

The frequent collaborators in Walker's work include Sylvia H. Duncan, Alistair J. P. Brown, Petra Louis, Liviana Ricci, and Julian Parkhill.

Walker's research has appeared consistently in a range of publication venues, notably:

  • BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Gut Microbiome
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Best Publications

  • Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

    Susannah J Salter;Michael J Cox;Elena M Turek;Szymon T Calus

  • Dominant and diet-responsive groups of bacteria within the human colonic microbiota.

    Alan W Walker;Jennifer Ince;Sylvia H Duncan;Lucy M Webster

  • Shotgun metagenomics, from sampling to analysis

    Christopher Quince;Alan W Walker;Jared T Simpson;Jared T Simpson;Nicholas J Loman

  • Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium exploits inflammation to compete with the intestinal microbiota

    Bärbel Stecher;Riccardo Robbiani;Alan W. Walker;Astrid M. Westendorf

  • High-throughput clone library analysis of the mucosa-associated microbiota reveals dysbiosis and differences between inflamed and non-inflamed regions of the intestine in inflammatory bowel disease

    Alan W Walker;Jeremy D Sanderson;Carol Churcher;Gareth C Parkes

  • pH and peptide supply can radically alter bacterial populations and short-chain fatty acid ratios within microbial communities from the human colon.

    Alan W Walker;Sylvia H Duncan;E Carol McWilliam Leitch;Matthew W Child

  • Intestinal colonization resistance

    Trevor D Lawley;Alan W Walker

  • Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

    Christina J Adler;Keith Dobney;Laura S Weyrich;John Kaidonis

  • Targeted Restoration of the Intestinal Microbiota with a Simple, Defined Bacteriotherapy Resolves Relapsing Clostridium difficile Disease in Mice

    Trevor D. Lawley;Simon Clare;Alan W. Walker;Mark D. Stares

  • Compendium of 4,941 rumen metagenome-assembled genomes for rumen microbiome biology and enzyme discovery

    Robert D. Stewart;Marc D. Auffret;Amanda Warr;Alan W. Walker

  • Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen

    Robert D. Stewart;Marc D. Auffret;Amanda Warr;Andrew H. Wiser

  • Gut inflammation can boost horizontal gene transfer between pathogenic and commensal Enterobacteriaceae.

    Bärbel Stecher;Rémy Denzler;Lisa Maier;Florian Bernet

  • The Intestinal Microbiota Contributes to the Ability of Helminths to Modulate Allergic Inflammation

    Mario M. Zaiss;Alexis Rapin;Luc Lebon;Lalit Kumar Dubey

  • Antibiotic treatment of Clostridium difficile carrier mice triggers a supershedder state, spore-mediated transmission, and severe disease in immunocompromised hosts.

    Trevor D. Lawley;Simon Clare;Alan W. Walker;David Goulding

  • Modulation of the human gut microbiota by dietary fibres occurs at the species level.

    Wing Sun Faith Chung;Alan W. Walker;Alan W. Walker;Petra Louis;Julian Parkhill

  • Diarrhea in young children from low-income countries leads to large-scale alterations in intestinal microbiota composition

    Mihai Pop;Alan W Walker;Joseph Paulson;Brianna Lindsay

  • The Transcription Factor T-bet Regulates Intestinal Inflammation Mediated by Interleukin-7 Receptor+ Innate Lymphoid Cells

    Nick Powell;Nick Powell;Nick Powell;Alan W. Walker;Emilie Stolarczyk;James B. Canavan;James B. Canavan;James B. Canavan

  • The Impact of Different DNA Extraction Kits and Laboratories upon the Assessment of Human Gut Microbiota Composition by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

    Nicholas A. Kennedy;Alan W. Walker;Susan H. Berry;Sylvia H. Duncan

  • Selective Colonization of Insoluble Substrates by Human Faecal Bacteria

    E Carol McWilliam Leitch;Alan W Walker;Sylvia H Duncan;Grietje Holtrop

  • LHCb Trigger System : Technical Design Report

    R. Antunes Nobrega;A. Franca Barbosa;I. Bediaga;G. Cernicchiaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
J. R. Batley
J. R. Batley University of Western Australia
David Coward
David Coward University of Western Australia
Massimiliano Fiorini
Massimiliano Fiorini University of Ferrara

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