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Bart C. Weimer is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with substantial contributions to agricultural and biological sciences as well as medicine.

The scientist's scholarly output encompasses 65 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, along with 47 works in agricultural and biological sciences and 41 in medicine. Subspecialties within their research include molecular biology, food science, plant science, infectious diseases, and agronomy and crop science.

Key research topics addressed by Bart C. Weimer include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Probiotics and fermented foods
  • Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
  • Legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology

Among their recent publications are:

  • Prolonged drought imparts lasting compositional changes to the rice root microbiome, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Rumen and lower gut microbiomes relationship with feed efficiency and production traits throughout the lactation of Holstein dairy cows, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Microbial-Derived Tryptophan Metabolites and Their Role in Neurological Disease: Anthranilic Acid and Anthranilic Acid Derivatives, 2023, Microorganisms
  • Two-component systems regulate bacterial virulence in response to the host gastrointestinal environment and metabolic cues, 2022, Virulence
  • Monitoring the microbiome for food safety and quality using deep shotgun sequencing, 2021, npj Science of Food

Bart C. Weimer has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microorganisms
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Virulence

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Bihua C. Huang, Cory Schlesener, Claire A. Shaw, H.F. Monteiro, and F.S. Lima. These partnerships have supported research in diverse microbiological and agricultural domains.

Best Publications

  • Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria

    K. Makarova;A. Slesarev;Y. Wolf;A. Sorokin

  • Microbiota-liberated host sugars facilitate post-antibiotic expansion of enteric pathogens

    Katharine M. Ng;Jessica A. Ferreyra;Steven K. Higginbottom;Jonathan B. Lynch

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Bacteroides in the Infant Gut Consume Milk Oligosaccharides via Mucus-Utilization Pathways

    Angela Marcobal;Mariana Barboza;Erica D. Sonnenburg;Nicholas Pudlo

  • Isolation and characterization of acid- and bile-tolerant isolates from strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus

    Lan Szu Chou;Bart C Weimer

  • Cytosporone B is an agonist for nuclear orphan receptor Nur77

    Yanyan Zhan;Xiping Du;Hangzi Chen;Jingjing Liu

  • Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota.

    Allen Van Deynze;Pablo Zamora;Pierre Marc Delaux;Cristobal Heitmann

  • Gut microbiota-produced succinate promotes C. difficile infection after antibiotic treatment or motility disturbance.

    Jessica A. Ferreyra;Katherine J. Wu;Andrew J. Hryckowian;Donna M. Bouley

  • Discovering lactic acid bacteria by genomics

    Todd Klaenhammer;Eric Altermann;Fabrizio Arigoni;Alexander Bolotin

  • The Bacterial Mobile Resistome Transfer Network Connecting the Animal and Human Microbiomes.

    Yongfei Hu;Xi Yang;Jing Li;Na Lv

  • Broad conservation of milk utilization genes in Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis as revealed by comparative genomic hybridization.

    Riccardo G. LoCascio;Prerak Desai;Prerak Desai;David A. Sela;Bart C Weimer

  • Proteomic remodelling of mitochondrial oxidative pathways in pressure overload-induced heart failure

    Heiko Bugger;Michael Schwarzer;Dong Chen;Andrea Schrepper

  • Comparative genomic analysis of the gut bacterium Bifidobacterium longum reveals loci susceptible to deletion during pure culture growth

    Ju Hoon Lee;V. N. Karamychev;S. A. Kozyavkin;D. Mills

  • Tissue-Specific Remodeling of the Mitochondrial Proteome in Type 1 Diabetic Akita Mice

    Heiko Bugger;Dong Chen;Christian Riehle;Jamie Soto

  • Conversion of Methionine to Thiols by Lactococci, Lactobacilli, and Brevibacteria

    Benjamin Dias;Bart C Weimer

  • Sulfur metabolism in bacteria associated with cheese

    Bart C Weimer;Kimberly Seefeldt;Benjamin Dias

  • Purification and characterization of L-methionine γ-lyase from Brevibacterium linens BL2

    Benjamin Dias;Bart C Weimer

  • Optimizing the immobilization of single-stranded DNA onto glass beads.

    Marie K. Walsh;Xinwen Wang;Bart C. Weimer

  • Glycosylation of Human Milk Lactoferrin Exhibits Dynamic Changes During Early Lactation Enhancing Its Role in Pathogenic Bacteria-Host Interactions

    Mariana Barboza;Janneth Pinzon;Saumiya Wickramasinghe;John W. Froehlich

  • Prolonged drought imparts lasting compositional changes to the rice root microbiome.

    Christian Santos-Medellín;Zachary Liechty;Joseph Edwards;Joseph Edwards;Bao Nguyen;Bao Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Mills
David A. Mills University of California, Davis
Alan B. Bennett
Alan B. Bennett University of California, Davis
E. Dale Abel
E. Dale Abel University of California, Los Angeles
Donald J. McMahon
Donald J. McMahon Utah State University
Carlito B. Lebrilla
Carlito B. Lebrilla University of California, Davis
Pramod K. Pandey
Pramod K. Pandey University of California, Davis
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Yuemao Shen
Yuemao Shen Shandong University
Martin Wiedmann
Martin Wiedmann Cornell University
Justin L. Sonnenburg
Justin L. Sonnenburg Stanford University

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