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90
Citations
93266
World Ranking
2374
National Ranking
1264

Overview

Dirk Gevers is affiliated with Johnson & Johnson in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing notably to subfields such as molecular biology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, surgery, and microbiology.

Their work primarily focuses on topics including gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, reproductive tract infections research, urinary tract infections management, pelvic floor disorders treatments, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Gevers has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Precise quantification of bacterial strains after fecal microbiota transplantation delineates long-term engraftment and explains outcomes, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Defined microbiota transplant restores Th17/RORγt + regulatory T cell balance in mice colonized with inflammatory bowel disease microbiotas, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Impact of a multi-strain L. crispatus-based vaginal synbiotic on the vaginal microbiome: a randomized placebo-controlled trial, 2025, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
  • Capacity of a Microbial Synbiotic To Rescue the In Vitro Metabolic Activity of the Gut Microbiome following Perturbation with Alcohol or Antibiotics, 2023, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Frequent coauthors of Gevers include:

  • Graham J. Britton
  • Jeremiah J. Faith
  • Sheri L. Simmons
  • Ilaria Mogno
  • Gerold Bongers

They have published frequently in several notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

    Nicola Segata;Jacques Izard;Levi Waldron;Dirk Gevers

  • Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

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

  • Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing.

    Nicholas A Bokulich;Sathish Subramanian;Jeremiah J Faith;Dirk Gevers

  • Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

    Brian J. Haas;Dirk Gevers;Ashlee M. Earl;Mike Feldgarden

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

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

  • Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatment

    Xochitl C Morgan;Timothy L Tickle;Timothy L Tickle;Harry Sokol;Harry Sokol;Dirk Gevers

  • A framework for human microbiome research

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

  • Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

    Patrick D. Schloss;Dirk Gevers;Sarah L. Westcott

  • Genomic analysis identifies association of Fusobacterium with colorectal carcinoma

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Dirk Gevers;Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu;Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu;Monia Michaud

  • The Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Status and the Future Ahead

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Ramnik J. Xavier;Ramnik J. Xavier;Dirk Gevers

  • Population-based metagenomics analysis reveals markers for gut microbiome composition and diversity.

    Alexandra Zhernakova;Alexander Kurilshikov;Marc Jan Bonder;Ettje F. Tigchelaar

  • Potential role of intratumor bacteria in mediating tumor resistance to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine.

    Leore T. Geller;Michal Barzily-Rokni;Tal Danino;Oliver H. Jonas;Oliver H. Jonas

  • Microbial Co-occurrence Relationships in the Human Microbiome

    Karoline Faust;J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti;Jacques Izard;Jacques Izard;Nicola Segata

  • Variation in Microbiome LPS Immunogenicity Contributes to Autoimmunity in Humans

    Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Eva D'Hennezel;Heli Siljander

  • Disease-specific alterations in the enteric virome in inflammatory bowel disease.

    Jason M. Norman;Scott A. Handley;Megan T. Baldridge;Lindsay Droit

  • Re-evaluating prokaryotic species

    Dirk Gevers;Frederick M. Cohan;Jeffrey G. Lawrence;Brian G. Spratt

  • The Dynamics of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome in Development and in Progression toward Type 1 Diabetes

    Aleksandar D. Kostic;Aleksandar D. Kostic;Dirk Gevers;Heli Siljander;Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen

  • Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome

    Sahar Abubucker;Nicola Segata;Johannes Goll;Alyxandria M. Schubert

  • Composition of the adult digestive tract bacterial microbiome based on seven mouth surfaces, tonsils, throat and stool samples

    Nicholas Segata;Susan Kinder Haake;Peter Mannon;Katherine Paige Lemon;Katherine Paige Lemon

  • Natural history of the infant gut microbiome and impact of antibiotic treatment on bacterial strain diversity and stability

    Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Tommi Vatanen;Tommi Vatanen;Heli Siljander;Anu-Maaria Hämäläinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Jean Swings
Jean Swings Ghent University
Eric A. Franzosa
Eric A. Franzosa Harvard University
Nicola Segata
Nicola Segata University of Trento
Ashlee M. Earl
Ashlee M. Earl Broad Institute
Joseph F. Petrosino
Joseph F. Petrosino Baylor College of Medicine
Bruce W. Birren
Bruce W. Birren Broad Institute

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