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Justin L. Sonnenburg

Justin L. Sonnenburg

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Microbiology

D-Index
82
Citations
43449
World Ranking
1031
National Ranking
471

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Justin L. Sonnenburg is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 107 publications, and Medicine, with 69 publications. Within these, notable subfields include Molecular Biology, Food Science, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

The main research topics covered by Sonnenburg focus extensively on the gut microbiota and health, followed by probiotics and fermented foods. Other areas of work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, diet and metabolism studies, gastrointestinal motility and disorders, infant nutrition and health, as well as bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on microbiome and immune system interactions as well as inflammation. Some of these papers are:

  • "A single-cell transcriptomic atlas characterizes ageing tissues in the mouse" (2020, Nature)
  • "Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status" (2021, Cell)
  • "Dysbiosis-Induced Secondary Bile Acid Deficiency Promotes Intestinal Inflammation" (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • "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)

Sonnenburg frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell, Cell Host & Microbe, Gastroenterology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). The highest number of publications are in bioRxiv, with 28 contributions.

Collaborations are an important aspect of Sonnenburg's work, with frequent co-authors including Erica D. Sonnenburg, Steven K. Higginbottom, Matthew R. Olm, Christopher D. Gardner, and Matthew M. Carter.

Among distinctions, Justin L. Sonnenburg received the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human Intestine

    Fredrik Bäckhed;Ruth E. Ley;Justin L. Sonnenburg;Daniel A. Peterson

  • Diet–microbiota interactions as moderators of human metabolism

    Justin L. Sonnenburg;Fredrik Bäckhed

  • Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations

    Erica D. Sonnenburg;Samuel A. Smits;Mikhail Tikhonov;Steven K. Higginbottom

  • Glycan Foraging in Vivo by an Intestine-Adapted Bacterial Symbiont

    Justin L. Sonnenburg;Jian Xu;Douglas D. Leip;Chien-Huan Chen

  • A gut bacterial pathway metabolizes aromatic amino acids into nine circulating metabolites

    Dylan Dodd;Matthew H. Spitzer;Matthew H. Spitzer;William Van Treuren;Bryan D. Merrill

  • Gut microbes promote colonic serotonin production through an effect of short-chain fatty acids on enterochromaffin cells

    Christopher S. Reigstad;Charles E. Salmonson;John F. Rainey;Joseph H. Szurszewski

  • A single-cell transcriptomic atlas characterizes ageing tissues in the mouse

    Nicole Almanzar;Jane Antony;Ankit S. Baghel

  • Gut-microbiota-targeted diets modulate human immune status.

    Hannah C. Wastyk;Gabriela K. Fragiadakis;Dalia Perelman;Dylan Dahan

  • Microbiota-liberated host sugars facilitate post-antibiotic expansion of enteric pathogens

    Katharine M. Ng;Jessica A. Ferreyra;Steven K. Higginbottom;Jonathan B. Lynch

  • Starving our Microbial Self: The Deleterious Consequences of a Diet Deficient in Microbiota-Accessible Carbohydrates

    Erica D. Sonnenburg;Justin L. Sonnenburg

  • Seasonal cycling in the gut microbiome of the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania

    Samuel A. Smits;Jeff Leach;Erica D. Sonnenburg;Carlos G. Gonzalez

  • Specificity of Polysaccharide Use in Intestinal Bacteroides Species Determines Diet-Induced Microbiota Alterations

    Erica D. Sonnenburg;Hongjun Zheng;Payal Joglekar;Steven K. Higginbottom

  • Dysbiosis-Induced Secondary Bile Acid Deficiency Promotes Intestinal Inflammation

    Sidhartha R. Sinha;Yeneneh Haileselassie;Linh P. Nguyen;Carolina Tropini

  • The Gut Microbiome: Connecting Spatial Organization to Function.

    Carolina Tropini;Kristen A. Earle;Kerwyn Casey Huang;Justin L. Sonnenburg

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

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

  • Ageing hallmarks exhibit organ-specific temporal signatures.

    Nicholas Schaum;Benoit Lehallier;Oliver Hahn;Róbert Pálovics

  • Eating for two: how metabolism establishes interspecies interactions in the gut

    Michael A. Fischbach;Justin L. Sonnenburg

  • Getting a grip on things: how do communities of bacterial symbionts become established in our intestine?

    Justin L Sonnenburg;Largus T Angenent;Jeffrey I Gordon

  • Genomic and Metabolic Studies of the Impact of Probiotics on a Model Gut Symbiont and Host

    Justin L Sonnenburg;Christina T. L Chen;Jeffrey I Gordon

  • A Gut Commensal-Produced Metabolite Mediates Colonization Resistance to Salmonella Infection.

    Amanda Jacobson;Lilian Lam;Manohary Rajendram;Fiona Tamburini

  • Complex Interactions Among Diet, Gastrointestinal Transit, and Gut Microbiota in Humanized Mice

    Purna C. Kashyap;Purna C. Kashyap;Angela Marcobal;Luke K. Ursell;Muriel Larauche

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Fischbach
Michael A. Fischbach Stanford University
Kerwyn Casey Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University
Joshua E. Elias
Joshua E. Elias Stanford University
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Ajit Varki
Ajit Varki University of California, San Diego
Eric C. Martens
Eric C. Martens University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Fredrik Bäckhed
Fredrik Bäckhed University of Gothenburg
Pankaj J. Pasricha
Pankaj J. Pasricha Johns Hopkins University

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