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D-Index
79
Citations
63274
World Ranking
1187
National Ranking
533

Lora V. Hooper publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lora V. Hooper sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 168 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Lora V. Hooper D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lora V. Hooper sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ASM Award for Basic Research, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Lora V. Hooper is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. With a significant number of publications, Hooper contributes extensively to the fields of molecular biology, immunology, infectious diseases, surgery, and epidemiology.

The main topics of research work include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Immune cells in cancer

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Chaitanya Dende
  • Prithvi Raj
  • Cassie L. Behrendt
  • Kelly A. Ruhn
  • Andrew Y. Koh

Hooper's research has been published notably in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Science
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Science Translational Medicine

Recent papers highlight diverse aspects of microbiota and immunity:

  • Dietary simple sugars alter microbial ecology in the gut and promote colitis in mice (2020), published in Science Translational Medicine
  • The microbiota coordinates diurnal rhythms in innate immunity with the circadian clock (2021), published in Cell
  • The gut microbiota reprograms intestinal lipid metabolism through long noncoding RNA Snhg9 (2023), published in Science
  • Xenosiderophore Utilization Promotes Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Resilience during Colitis (2020), published in Cell Host & Microbe
  • Immune checkpoint blockade induces gut microbiota translocation that augments extraintestinal antitumor immunity (2023), published in Science Immunology

Lora V. Hooper has been recognized with the ASM Award for Basic Research from the American Society for Microbiology in 2020 and was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage

    Fredrik Bäckhed;Hao Ding;Hao Ding;Ting Wang;Lora V. Hooper

  • Interactions between the microbiota and the immune system.

    Lora V. Hooper;Dan R. Littman;Andrew J. Macpherson

  • Commensal Host-Bacterial Relationships in the Gut

    Lora V. Hooper;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Molecular Analysis of Commensal Host-Microbial Relationships in the Intestine

    Lora V. Hooper;Melissa H. Wong;Anders Thelin;Lennart Hansson

  • How host-microbial interactions shape the nutrient environment of the mammalian intestine

    Lora V. Hooper;Tore Midtvedt;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Symbiotic Bacteria Direct Expression of an Intestinal Bactericidal Lectin

    Heather L. Cash;Cecilia V. Whitham;Cassie L. Behrendt;Lora V. Hooper

  • Immune adaptations that maintain homeostasis with the intestinal microbiota

    Lora V. Hooper;Andrew J. Macpherson;Andrew J. Macpherson

  • A genomic view of the human-Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron symbiosis

    Jian Xu;Magnus K. Bjursell;Jason Himrod;Su Deng

  • The Antibacterial Lectin RegIIIγ Promotes the Spatial Segregation of Microbiota and Host in the Intestine

    Shipra Vaishnava;Miwako Yamamoto;Kari M. Severson;Kelly A. Ruhn

  • Developmental regulation of intestinal angiogenesis by indigenous microbes via Paneth cells.

    Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck;Lora V. Hooper;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Angiogenins: a new class of microbicidal proteins involved in innate immunity

    Lora V. Hooper;Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck;Chieu V. Hong;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Paneth cells directly sense gut commensals and maintain homeostasis at the intestinal host-microbial interface.

    Shipra Vaishnava;Cassie L. Behrendt;Anisa S. Ismail;Lars Eckmann

  • Epithelial antimicrobial defence of the skin and intestine

    Richard L. Gallo;Lora V. Hooper

  • Creating and Maintaining the Gastrointestinal Ecosystem: What We Know and Need To Know from Gnotobiology

    Per G. Falk;Lora V. Hooper;Tore Midtvedt;Jeffrey I. Gordon

  • Commensal bacteria regulate toll-like receptor 3-dependent inflammation after skin injury

    Yuping Lai;Anna Di Nardo;Anna Di Nardo;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Anke Leichtle;Anke Leichtle

  • Intestinal microbiota promote enteric virus replication and systemic pathogenesis.

    Sharon K. Kuss;Gavin T. Best;Chris A. Etheredge;Andrea J. Pruijssers

  • Bacterial contributions to mammalian gut development.

    Lora V. Hooper

  • A molecular sensor that allows a gut commensal to control its nutrient foundation in a competitive ecosystem

    Lora V. Hooper;Jian Xu;Per G. Falk;Per G. Falk;Tore Midtvedt

  • INTEGRIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN : A 50-KD PLASMA MEMBRANE ANTIGEN PHYSICALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY ASSOCIATED WITH INTEGRINS

    Eric Brown;Lora Hooper;Thang Ho;Hattie Gresham

  • The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

    F Bäckhed;H Ding;T Wang;LV Hooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey I. Gordon
Jeffrey I. Gordon Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastian E. Winter
Sebastian E. Winter University of California, Davis
Jacques U. Baenziger
Jacques U. Baenziger Washington University in St. Louis
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck Washington University in St. Louis
Wenjun Ouyang
Wenjun Ouyang Amgen (United States)
Jay K. Kolls
Jay K. Kolls Tulane University
Renato L. Santos
Renato L. Santos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Anthony L. DeFranco
Anthony L. DeFranco University of California, San Francisco
Andrew J. Macpherson
Andrew J. Macpherson University of Bern
Edward K. Wakeland
Edward K. Wakeland The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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