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Eric C. Martens is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research broadly spans fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, alongside Medicine. Subfields actively pursued include Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

The primary topics in Martens' research focus on the gut microbiota and its impact on health. Other main areas include probiotics and fermented foods, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, research on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens, genomics and phylogenetic studies, food composition and properties, and digestive system-related health.

Martens has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with a notable presence in top publication venues. Frequent places of publication include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Gastroenterology, Cell Host & Microbe, mBio, and Nature Microbiology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Interleukin-22-mediated host glycosylation prevents Clostridioides difficile infection by modulating the metabolic activity of the gut microbiota (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome (2021, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
  • A single sulfatase is required to access colonic mucin by a gut bacterium (2021, Nature)
  • Gut Microbiota Modulate CD8 T Cell Responses to Influence Colitis-Associated Tumorigenesis (2020, Cell Reports)
  • Phase-variable capsular polysaccharides and lipoproteins modify bacteriophage susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (2020, Nature Microbiology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martens include:

  • Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira
  • Nicholas A. Pudlo
  • Chunsheng Jin
  • Thomas M. Schmidt
  • Ana S. Luís

Their body of work shows a strong interdisciplinary approach, linking molecular biology with nutritional and infectious disease studies. The extensive volume of publications in bioRxiv also indicates active engagement in preprint and early dissemination of research findings.

Best Publications

  • A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility

    Mahesh S. Desai;Mahesh S. Desai;Anna M. Seekatz;Nicole M. Koropatkin;Nobuhiko Kamada

  • Dietary Fiber-Induced Improvement in Glucose Metabolism Is Associated with Increased Abundance of Prevotella

    Petia Kovatcheva-Datchary;Anne Nilsson;Rozita Akrami;Ying Shiuan Lee

  • How glycan metabolism shapes the human gut microbiota

    Nicole M. Koropatkin;Elizabeth A. Cameron;Eric C. Martens

  • Mucosal Glycan Foraging Enhances Fitness and Transmission of a Saccharolytic Human Gut Bacterial Symbiont

    Eric C. Martens;Herbert C. Chiang;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Recognition and degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides by two human gut symbionts.

    Eric C. Martens;Eric C. Martens;Elisabeth C. Lowe;Herbert Chiang;Nicholas A. Pudlo

  • US Immigration Westernizes the Human Gut Microbiome.

    Pajau Vangay;Abigail J. Johnson;Tonya L. Ward;Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith

  • Regulated virulence controls the ability of a pathogen to compete with the gut microbiota.

    Nobuhiko Kamada;Yun Gi Kim;Ho Pan Sham;Bruce A. Vallance

  • Evolution of symbiotic bacteria in the distal human intestine.

    Jian Xu;Michael A. Mahowald;Ruth E Ley;Catherine A. Lozupone

  • Complex Glycan Catabolism by the Human Gut Microbiota: The Bacteroidetes Sus-like Paradigm*

    Eric C. Martens;Nicole M. Koropatkin;Thomas J. Smith;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Interactions of commensal and pathogenic microorganisms with the intestinal mucosal barrier

    Eric C Martens;Mareike Neumann;Mahesh S Desai

  • Complex pectin metabolism by gut bacteria reveals novel catalytic functions

    Didier Ndeh;Artur Rogowski;Artur Rogowski;Alan Cartmell;Ana S. Luis

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

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

  • Human gut Bacteroidetes can utilize yeast mannan through a selfish mechanism

    Fiona Cuskin;Fiona Cuskin;Elisabeth C. Lowe;Max J. Temple;Yanping Zhu;Yanping Zhu

  • Expansion of bacteriophages is linked to aggravated intestinal inflammation and colitis

    Lasha Gogokhia;Lasha Gogokhia;Kate Buhrke;Rickesha Bell;Brenden Hoffman

  • A discrete genetic locus confers xyloglucan metabolism in select human gut Bacteroidetes

    Johan Larsbrink;Theresa E. Rogers;Glyn R. Hemsworth;Lauren S. McKee

  • Prebiotics: why definitions matter.

    Robert W. Hutkins;Janina A. Krumbeck;Laure B. Bindels;Patrice D. Cani

  • Starch Catabolism by a Prominent Human Gut Symbiont Is Directed by the Recognition of Amylose Helices

    Nicole M. Koropatkin;Eric C. Martens;Jeffrey I. Gordon;Thomas J. Smith

  • Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine

    Artur Rogowski;Jonathon A. Briggs;Jennifer C. Mortimer;Theodora Tryfona

  • Dietary pectic glycans are degraded by coordinated enzyme pathways in human colonic Bacteroides

    Ana S. Luis;Jonathon Briggs;Xiaoyang Zhang;Benjamin Farnell;Benjamin Farnell

  • FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC AND METABOLIC STUDIES OF THE ADAPTATIONS OF A PROMINENT ADULT HUMAN GUT SYMBIONT, BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON, TO THE SUCKLING PERIOD*

    Magnus K. Bjursell;Eric C. Martens;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • NLRP6 Protects Il10−/− Mice from Colitis by Limiting Colonization of Akkermansia muciniphila

    Sergey S. Seregin;Natasha Golovchenko;Bryan Schaf;Jiachen Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Harry J. Gilbert
Harry J. Gilbert Newcastle University
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Bruce R. Hamaker
Bruce R. Hamaker Purdue University West Lafayette
Justin L. Sonnenburg
Justin L. Sonnenburg Stanford University
Gideon J. Davies
Gideon J. Davies University of York
Harry Brumer
Harry Brumer University of British Columbia
David N. Bolam
David N. Bolam Newcastle University
Kathryn A. Eaton
Kathryn A. Eaton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nobuhiko Kamada
Nobuhiko Kamada University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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