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Michael G. Surette

Michael G. Surette

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Microbiology
Canada
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
100
Citations
44238
World Ranking
399
National Ranking
8

Michael G. Surette 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 Michael G. Surette sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 353 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael G. Surette 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 Michael G. Surette sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Michael G. Surette is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has an extensive research portfolio in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, diet and metabolism studies, Microscopic Colitis, Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances, and gastrointestinal motility and disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Michael G. Surette include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Gut Microbes

Their recent significant publications are:

  • The Gut Microbiota and Unhealthy Aging: Disentangling Cause from Consequence, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies, 2023, Nature
  • Increased Intestinal Permeability Is Associated With Later Development of Crohn's Disease, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii, 2023, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Type 2 diabetes influences bacterial tissue compartmentalisation in human obesity, 2020, Nature Metabolism

Among their frequent co-authors are Paul Moayyedi, Laura Rossi, Anne M. Griffiths, Çharles N. Bernstein, and Elena F. Verdú. These collaborations suggest a network of experts in related medical and microbiological fields.

Best Publications

  • The interplay between the intestinal microbiota and the brain

    Stephen M. Collins;Michael Surette;Premysl Bercik

  • Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Induces Remission in Patients With Active Ulcerative Colitis in a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Paul Moayyedi;Michael G. Surette;Peter T. Kim;Peter T. Kim;Josie Libertucci

  • Robustness in bacterial chemotaxis

    U. Alon;M. G. Surette;N. Barkai;S. Leibler

  • Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Vibrio harveyi: A new family of genes responsible for autoinducer production

    Michael G. Surette;Melissa B. Miller;Bonnie L. Bassler

  • The LuxS family of bacterial autoinducers: biosynthesis of a novel quorum-sensing signal molecule

    Stephan Schauder;Kevan Shokat;Michael G. Surette;Bonnie L. Bassler

  • A Novel Mechanism of Rapid Nuclear Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in Response to Staphylococcus aureus

    Florian H. Pilsczek;Davide Salina;Karen K. H. Poon;Candace Fahey

  • Age-Associated Microbial Dysbiosis Promotes Intestinal Permeability, Systemic Inflammation, and Macrophage Dysfunction.

    Netusha Thevaranjan;Alicja Puchta;Christian Schulz;Avee Naidoo

  • Communication in bacteria: an ecological and evolutionary perspective.

    Laurent Keller;Michael G. Surette

  • A comprehensive library of fluorescent transcriptional reporters for Escherichia coli

    Alon Zaslaver;Anat Bren;Michal Ronen;Shalev Itzkovitz

  • A Catalog of Reference Genomes from the Human Microbiome

    Karen E. Nelson;George M. Weinstock;Sarah K. Highlander

  • Probiotic Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 Reduces Depression Scores and Alters Brain Activity: A Pilot Study in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

    Maria Ines Pinto-Sanchez;Geoffrey B. Hall;Kathy Ghajar;Andrea Nardelli

  • Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium

    Michael G. Surette;Bonnie L. Bassler

  • Protein mobility in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli

    Michael B. Elowitz;Michael G. Surette;Pierre Etienne Wolf;Jeffry Benton Stock

  • An Ultrasensitive Bacterial Motor Revealed by Monitoring Signaling Proteins in Single Cells

    Philippe Cluzel;Michael Surette;Stanislas Leibler

  • Gut Microbiota in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome-A Systematic Review.

    Rapat Pittayanon;Rapat Pittayanon;Jennifer T. Lau;Yuhong Yuan;Grigorios I. Leontiadis

  • Transcriptional modulation of bacterial gene expression by subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics.

    Ee-Been Goh;Grace Yim;Wayne Tsui;JoAnn McClure

  • Modulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression by host microflora through interspecies communication

    Kangmin Duan;Carol Dammel;Jeffrey Stein;Harvey Rabin

  • Just-in-time transcription program in metabolic pathways

    Alon Zaslaver;Avi E Mayo;Revital Rosenberg;Pnina Bashkin

  • Differences in Gut Microbiota in Patients With vs Without Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Systematic Review.

    Rapat Pittayanon;Rapat Pittayanon;Rapat Pittayanon;Jennifer T. Lau;Grigorios I. Leontiadis;Frances Tse

  • Microbiota and host determinants of behavioural phenotype in maternally separated mice

    G. De Palma;P. Blennerhassett;J. Lu;Y. Deng

  • Ordering genes in a flagella pathway by analysis of expression kinetics from living bacteria

    S. Kalir;J. McClure;K. Pabbaraju;C. Southward

Frequent Co-Authors

Dawn M. E. Bowdish
Dawn M. E. Bowdish McMaster University
Paul Moayyedi
Paul Moayyedi McMaster University
Stephen M. Collins
Stephen M. Collins McMaster University
Lehana Thabane
Lehana Thabane McMaster University
Jeffry B. Stock
Jeffry B. Stock Princeton University
Bonnie L. Bassler
Bonnie L. Bassler Princeton University
Waliul I. Khan
Waliul I. Khan McMaster University
John Bienenstock
John Bienenstock McMaster University
Paul Forsythe
Paul Forsythe McMaster University
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University

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