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Jessica L. Metcalf is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional significant work in agricultural and biological sciences. Their subfields of study include molecular biology, ecology, insect science, agronomy and crop science, and food science.

Their main research topics cover gut microbiota and health, molecular biology techniques and applications, microbial community ecology and physiology, ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology, forensic entomology and diptera studies, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

Recent publications by Jessica L. Metcalf feature significant contributions to microbiome research and ecological analyses. These include:

  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancerdiagnostic approach (2020, Nature)
  • Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats (2020, mBio)
  • In Vivo Competitions between Fibrobacter succinogenes, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, and Ruminoccus albus in a Gnotobiotic Sheep Model Revealed by Multi-Omic Analyses (2021, Munich Personal RePEc Archive)
  • Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave (2022, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Patterns of Oral Microbiota Diversity in Adults and Children: A Crowdsourced Population Study (2020, Scientific Reports)

Jessica L. Metcalf frequently publishes in several scientific venues. The most common among these are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • mSphere
  • Nature

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Rob Knight
  • Zachary M. Burcham
  • Aeriel D. Belk
  • Qiyun Zhu
  • Se Jin Song

The body of work and collaborations of Jessica L. Metcalf focus on integrating molecular biology with microbial ecology to understand complex biological systems, particularly relating to microbiomes across various organisms. Their studies involve comprehensive multi-omic analyses and emphasize ecological and physiological interactions within microbial communities.

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

    Margaret McFall-Ngai;Michael G. Hadfield;Thomas C. G. Bosch;Hannah V. Carey

  • Defining the Human Microbiome

    Luke K Ursell;Jessica L Metcalf;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

  • Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach

    Gregory D. Poore;Evguenia Kopylova;Qiyun Zhu;Carolina Carpenter

  • Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment.

    Simon Lax;Simon Lax;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Daniel P. Smith;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Jarrad Hampton-Marcell;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens

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

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

  • Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes

    Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito;Raul Y. Tito;Jessica Metcalf;Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan

  • Microbial community assembly and metabolic function during mammalian corpse decomposition

    Jessica L. Metcalf;Jessica L. Metcalf;Zhenjiang Zech Xu;Sophie Weiss;Simon Lax

  • Preservation Methods Differ in Fecal Microbiome Stability, Affecting Suitability for Field Studies.

    Se Jin Song;Amnon Amir;Jessica L. Metcalf;Jessica L. Metcalf;Katherine R. Amato

  • The Effects of Captivity on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome.

    Valerie J. McKenzie;Se Jin Song;Se Jin Song;Frédéric Delsuc;Tiffany L. Prest

  • Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats

    Se Jin Song;Jon G. Sanders;Frédéric Delsuc;Jessica Metcalf

  • A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

    Jessica L Metcalf;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Antonio Gonzalez;Christian L Lauber

  • Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals.

    Frédéric Delsuc;Frédéric Delsuc;Jessica L. Metcalf;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Se Jin Song

  • Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes.

    Katherine R. Amato;Jon G. Sanders;Se Jin Song;Michael Nute

  • Balance Trees Reveal Microbial Niche Differentiation

    James T. Morton;Jon Sanders;Robert A. Quinn;Daniel McDonald

  • Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes

    Raul Y. Tito;Dan Knights;Jessica Metcalf;Alexandra J. Obregon-Tito

  • Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA

    Ludovic Orlando;Jessica L. Metcalf;Maria T. Alberdi;Miguel Telles-Antunes

  • Tracking down the sources of experimental contamination in microbiome studies.

    Sophie Weiss;Amnon Amir;Embriette R Hyde;Jessica L Metcalf

  • Standardized multi-omics of Earth’s microbiomes reveals microbial and metabolite diversity

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  • Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation

    Jessica L Metcalf;Jessica L Metcalf;Chris S.M. Turney;Ross Barnett;Ross Barnett;Fabiana M Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Keith E. Belk
Keith E. Belk Colorado State University
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Paul S. Morley
Paul S. Morley Texas A&M University
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Dan Knights
Dan Knights University of Minnesota
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Jeremy J. Austin
Jeremy J. Austin University of Adelaide
Sean M. Gibbons
Sean M. Gibbons University of Washington

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