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Overview

Christian L. Lauber is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research focuses on several intersecting fields including medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on the gut microbiota and health, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, bacterial infections and vaccines, and related areas.

Lauber's work spans various subfields such as molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, microbiology, general health professions, and biological psychiatry. These fields collectively frame their investigation into the interactions between microbiomes, immune responses, and mental health.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to microbiome diversity, bacterial activity, immunization, and the relationship between stress and gut microbiota. Key papers include:

  • "Maternal anxiety, depression and stress affects offspring gut microbiome diversity and bifidobacterial abundances," 2022, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Noninvasive imaging and quantification of bile salt hydrolase activity: From bacteria to humans," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Immunization with a Biofilm-Disrupting Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Vaccine Antigen Did Not Alter the Gut Microbiome in Chinchillas, Unlike Oral Delivery of a Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Commonly Used for Otitis Media," 2020, mSphere
  • "Stress and depression-associated shifts in gut microbiota: A pilot study of human pregnancy," 2024, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • "Polyethylene Glycol 3350 Changes Stool Consistency and the Microbiome but not Behavior of CD1 Mice," 2021, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Their research has been disseminated through multiple publication venues, including:

  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Science Advances
  • mSphere
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Frequent collaborators in Lauber's research include Lauren Mashburn-Warren, Michael T. Bailey, Jeffrey D. Galley, Tamar Gur, and Lexie C. Blalock. The collaboration counts indicate ongoing partnerships, reflecting a networked approach to multidisciplinary scientific questions.

The principal topics covered in Lauber's work are:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Bacterial Infections and Vaccines
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Ear Surgery and Otitis Media

The cumulative contributions of Christian L. Lauber reflect integrated research efforts toward understanding the complex relationships between microbiological, immunological, and neuropsychiatric factors affecting human and animal health.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

    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

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

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

  • Pyrosequencing-based assessment of soil pH as a predictor of soil bacterial community structure at the continental scale.

    Christian L. Lauber;Micah Hamady;Rob Knight;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

    Elizabeth K. Costello;Christian L. Lauber;Micah Hamady;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer

  • Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh;Christian L. Lauber;Michael N. Weintraub;Bony Ahmed

  • The influence of soil properties on the structure of bacterial and fungal communities across land-use types

    Christian L. Lauber;Michael S. Strickland;Mark A. Bradford;Noah Fierer

  • Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients.

    Noah Fierer;Christian L Lauber;Kelly S Ramirez;Jesse Zaneveld

  • Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

    Noah Fierer;Jonathan W. Leff;Byron J. Adams;Uffe N. Nielsen

  • The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

    Noah Fierer;Micah Hamady;Christian L. Lauber;Rob Knight

  • Moving pictures of the human microbiome.

    J. Gregory Caporaso;Christian L Lauber;Elizabeth K. Costello;Donna Berg-Lyons

  • A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses

    Ryan T Jones;Michael S Robeson;Christian L Lauber;Micah Hamady

  • Optimization of hydrolytic and oxidative enzyme methods for ecosystem studies

    Donovan P. German;Michael N. Weintraub;A. Stuart Grandy;Christian L. Lauber

  • Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats

    Kevin J. Forsberg;Sanket Patel;Molly K. Gibson;Christian L. Lauber

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

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

  • Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition

    Michael S. Strickland;Christian Lauber;Noah Fierer;Noah Fierer;Mark A. Bradford

  • Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome

    Justin Kuczynski;Christian L. Lauber;William A. Walters;Laura Wegener Parfrey

  • Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications.

    Pelin Yilmaz;Pelin Yilmaz;Renzo Kottmann;Dawn Field;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

  • The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities

    Gaddy T. Bergmann;Scott T. Bates;Kathryn G. Eilers;Christian L. Lauber

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Dan Knights
Dan Knights University of Minnesota
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Mark A. Bradford
Mark A. Bradford Yale University
Catherine A. Lozupone
Catherine A. Lozupone University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jose C. Clemente
Jose C. Clemente Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael S. Strickland
Michael S. Strickland University of Idaho

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