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Catherine A. Lozupone is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields focused mainly on the interplay between the gut microbiome and health outcomes, particularly in relation to infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS.

The main fields of study in their work include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 52 publications, and Medicine with 36 publications. Subfields of particular interest encompass Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Immunology, and Physiology.

The scientist's research topics are diverse and frequently centered around gut microbiota and health. Other prominent topics include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, and HIV-related health complications and treatments.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Catherine A. Lozupone are:

  • The Gut Microbiome in Autism: Study-Site Effects and Longitudinal Analysis of Behavior Change, 2021, mSystems
  • SCNIC: Sparse correlation network investigation for compositional data, 2022, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Can gut microbiota of men who have sex with men influence HIV transmission?, 2020, Gut Microbes
  • Alteration of the gut fecal microbiome in children living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Yaounde, Cameroon, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • A phylogenetic model for the recruitment of species into microbial communities and application to studies of the human microbiome, 2020, The ISME Journal

Catherine A. Lozupone has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Brent E. Palmer, Nichole Nusbacher, C. Preston Neff, Thomas Campbell, and Casey Martin, with each having collaborated on multiple publications.

The scientist publishes predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 12 publications, along with multiple papers in mSystems, Gut Microbes, Scientific Reports, and Microbiome. These venues reflect a focus on microbiome research and related health implications.

Best Publications

  • QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.

    J Gregory Caporaso;Justin Kuczynski;Jesse Stombaugh;Kyle Bittinger

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

    Curtis Huttenhower;Curtis Huttenhower;Dirk Gevers;Rob Knight;Rob Knight;Sahar Abubucker

  • Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L. Lauber;William A. Walters;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

    Tanya Yatsunenko;Federico E Rey;Mark J Manary;Mark J Manary;Indi Trehan;Indi Trehan

  • UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities

    Catherine Lozupone;Rob Knight

  • Obesity alters gut microbial ecology

    Ruth E. Ley;Fredrik Bäckhed;Peter Turnbaugh;Catherine A. Lozupone

  • Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota

    Catherine A. Lozupone;Jesse I. Stombaugh;Jeffrey I. Gordon;Janet K. Jansson

  • Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth;Philip C Brookes;Christian L Lauber

  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Evolution of mammals and their gut microbes

    Ruth E. Ley;Micah Hamady;Catherine Lozupone;Catherine Lozupone;Peter J. Turnbaugh

  • A framework for human microbiome research

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Mihai Pop;Heather H. Creasy

  • UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

    Catherine Lozupone;Manuel E Lladser;Dan Knights;Jesse Stombaugh

  • Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities

    Catherine A. Lozupone;Micah Hamady;Scott T. Kelley;Rob Knight

  • Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics

    Sophie Weiss;Zhenjiang Zech Xu;Shyamal Peddada;Amnon Amir

  • Global patterns in bacterial diversity

    Catherine A. Lozupone;Rob Knight

  • Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota

    Ruth E. Ley;Catherine A. Lozupone;Catherine A. Lozupone;Micah Hamady;Rob Knight

  • UniFrac--an online tool for comparing microbial community diversity in a phylogenetic context.

    Catherine A. Lozupone;Micah Hamady;Rob Knight

  • Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs

    Se Jin Song;Christian Lauber;Elizabeth K Costello;Catherine A Lozupone

  • Fast UniFrac: facilitating high-throughput phylogenetic analyses of microbial communities including analysis of pyrosequencing and PhyloChip data.

    Micah Hamady;Catherine A. Lozupone;Catherine A. Lozupone;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Brent E. Palmer
Brent E. Palmer University of Colorado Denver
Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley Max Planck Society
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Dan Knights
Dan Knights University of Minnesota
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Kyle Bittinger
Kyle Bittinger Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory

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