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Overview

Dan Knights is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology and physiology as key subfields.

Their work centers on topics related to gut microbiota and health, diet and metabolism studies, and infant nutrition and health. Additional research interests include nutritional studies and diet, dietary effects on health, probiotics and fermented foods, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Notable recent publications by Dan Knights include:

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Reveals Subset-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Irritable Bowel Syndrome (2020, Cell)
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Effects of Diet-Modulated Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Weight Regain (2020, Gastroenterology)
  • Supplementation with a probiotic mixture accelerates gut microbiome maturation and reduces intestinal inflammation in extremely preterm infants (2022, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • Gut microbiota modulation with long-chain corn bran arabinoxylan in adults with overweight and obesity is linked to an individualized temporal increase in fecal propionate (2020, Microbiome)

Dan Knights has frequently collaborated with several researchers in the field, including Abigail J. Johnson, Tonya Ward, Suzie Hoops, Ran Blekhman, and Purna Kashyap.

Their work has been published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Gut Microbes, Current Developments in Nutrition, Cell, and Gastroenterology.

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

  • Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

    Morgan G I Langille;Jesse Zaneveld;J Gregory Caporaso;J Gregory Caporaso;Daniel McDonald

  • Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

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

  • Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

    Gary D. Wu;Jun Chen;Christian Hoffmann;Christian Hoffmann;Kyle Bittinger

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

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

  • The Treatment-Naive Microbiome in New-Onset Crohn’s Disease

    Dirk Gevers;Subra Kugathasan;Lee A. Denson;Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza

  • 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

  • Diet drives convergence in gut microbiome functions across mammalian phylogeny and within humans

    Brian D. Muegge;Justin Kuczynski;Dan Knights;Jose C. Clemente

  • Bayesian community-wide culture-independent microbial source tracking

    Dan Knights;Justin Kuczynski;Emily S. Charlson;Jesse Zaneveld

  • Gut microbiomes of Malawian twin pairs discordant for kwashiorkor

    Michelle I. Smith;Tanya Yatsunenko;Mark J. Manary;Mark J. Manary;Mark J. Manary;Indi Trehan;Indi Trehan

  • Moving pictures of the human microbiome.

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

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

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

  • Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition

    Paul I. Costea;Falk Hildebrand;Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Fredrik Bäckhed;Fredrik Bäckhed

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

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

  • American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research.

    Daniel McDonald;Embriette Hyde;Justine W. Debelius;James T. Morton

  • Systematic improvement of amplicon marker gene methods for increased accuracy in microbiome studies

    Daryl M Gohl;Pajau Vangay;John Garbe;Allison MacLean

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Ruth E. Ley
Ruth E. Ley Max Planck Society
J. Gregory Caporaso
J. Gregory Caporaso Northern Arizona University
Catherine A. Lozupone
Catherine A. Lozupone University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Noah Fierer
Noah Fierer University of Colorado Boulder
Martin J. Blaser
Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Jose C. Clemente
Jose C. Clemente Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory

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