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Overview

Joao B. Xavier is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on the intersections of microbiota, immune systems, and cancer biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of gut microbiota and its impact on health, alongside topics such as Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, neutropenia and cancer infections, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, probiotics and fermented foods, and mycobacterium research and diagnosis.

Xavier's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Microbiota as Predictor of Mortality in Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • The gut microbiota is associated with immune cell dynamics in humans, 2020, Nature
  • Regenerative lineages and immune-mediated pruning in lung cancer metastasis, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • The Cancer Microbiome: Distinguishing Direct and Indirect Effects Requires a Systemic View, 2020, Trends in cancer
  • The microbe-derived short-chain fatty acids butyrate and propionate are associated with protection from chronic GVHD, 2020, Blood

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Xavier include Chen Liao, Jonathan U. Peled, Marcel R.M. van den Brink, Ying Taur, and Miguel-Angel Perales. These partnerships reflect a network of researchers active in related fields such as hematopoietic cell transplantation, immunology, and cancer biology.

The primary publication venues for Xavier's work are diverse, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Scientific Data, Contribuciones a las Ciencias Sociales, and Nature Medicine. This range indicates involvement in both preprint dissemination as well as peer-reviewed journal contributions.

Xavier's main fields of study are biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology with 65 publications, and medicine with 57 publications. Subfields notably include molecular biology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, oncology, and cancer research, demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Precision microbiome reconstitution restores bile acid mediated resistance to Clostridium difficile.

    Charlie G. Buffie;Vanni Bucci;Vanni Bucci;Richard R. Stein;Peter T. McKenney

  • Intestinal Domination and the Risk of Bacteremia in Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    Ying Taur;Joao B. Xavier;Lauren Lipuma;Carles Ubeda

  • The sociobiology of biofilms

    Carey D. Nadell;Joao B. Xavier;Kevin R. Foster

  • Profound Alterations of Intestinal Microbiota following a Single Dose of Clindamycin Results in Sustained Susceptibility to Clostridium difficile-Induced Colitis

    Charlie G. Buffie;Irene Jarchum;Michele Equinda;Lauren Lipuma

  • Ecological modeling from time-series inference: insight into dynamics and stability of intestinal microbiota.

    Richard R. Stein;Vanni Bucci;Nora C. Toussaint;Charlie G. Buffie

  • Microbiota as Predictor of Mortality in Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation

    Jonathan U Peled;Antonio L C Gomes;Sean M Devlin;Eric R Littmann

  • Cooperation and conflict in microbial biofilms

    Joao B. Xavier;Kevin R. Foster

  • Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Nicole M. Gerardo;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Mónica Medina

  • The gut microbiota is associated with immune cell dynamics in humans.

    Jonas Schluter;Jonathan U. Peled;Jonathan U. Peled;Bradford P. Taylor;Kate A. Markey;Kate A. Markey

  • The evolution of quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms.

    Carey D. Nadell;Joao B. Xavier;Simon Asher Levin;Kevin R. Foster

  • Intestinal Microbiota Containing Barnesiella Species Cures Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Colonization

    Carles Ubeda;Carles Ubeda;Vanni Bucci;Silvia Caballero;Silvia Caballero;Ana Djukovic

  • Emergence of spatial structure in cell groups and the evolution of cooperation.

    Carey D. Nadell;Kevin R. Foster;João B. Xavier;João B. Xavier

  • Lactose drives Enterococcus expansion to promote graft-versus-host disease.

    C. K. Stein-Thoeringer;C. K. Stein-Thoeringer;C. K. Stein-Thoeringer;K. B. Nichols;K. B. Nichols;A. Lazrak;A. Lazrak;M. D. Docampo;M. D. Docampo

  • Regenerative lineages and immune-mediated pruning in lung cancer metastasis

    Ashley M. Laughney;Jing Hu;Nathaniel R. Campbell;Nathaniel R. Campbell;Samuel F. Bakhoum

  • Turning ecology and evolution against cancer

    Kirill S. Korolev;Joao B. Xavier;Jeff Gore

  • Reconstitution of the gut microbiota of antibiotic-treated patients by autologous fecal microbiota transplant

    Ying Taur;Katharine Coyte;Katharine Coyte;Katharine Coyte;Jonas Schluter;Elizabeth Robilotti

  • Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition.

    Nuno M. Oliveira;Esteban Martinez-Garcia;Joao Xavier;William M. Durham

  • A molecular mechanism that stabilizes cooperative secretions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

    Joao B. Xavier;Wook Kim;Kevin R. Foster

  • Metabolic origins of spatial organization in the tumor microenvironment

    Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Maxime Deforet;Leila Akkari;Leila Akkari;Craig B. Thompson

  • Biofilm-control strategies based on enzymic disruption of the extracellular polymeric substance matrix: a modelling study

    Joao B. Xavier;Joao B. Xavier;Cristian Picioreanu;Suriani Abdul Rani;Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel R.M. van den Brink
Marcel R.M. van den Brink Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eric G. Pamer
Eric G. Pamer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Miguel-Angel Perales
Miguel-Angel Perales Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ying Taur
Ying Taur Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kevin R. Foster
Kevin R. Foster University of Oxford
Sergio Giralt
Sergio Giralt Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cristian Picioreanu
Cristian Picioreanu King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Nelson J. Chao
Nelson J. Chao Duke University
Robert R. Jenq
Robert R. Jenq The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ernst Holler
Ernst Holler University of Regensburg

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