Michael J. Morowitz

Best Publications

• Microbes in the neonatal intensive care unit resemble those found in the gut of premature infants

  Brandon Brooks;Brian A Firek;Christopher S Miller;Christopher S Miller;Itai Sharon

  601
  Citations

• inStrain profiles population microdiversity from metagenomic data and sensitively detects shared microbial strains.

  Matthew R. Olm;Matthew R. Olm;Alexander Crits-Christoph;Keith Bouma-Gregson;Brian A. Firek

  532
  Citations

• Time series community genomics analysis reveals rapid shifts in bacterial species, strains, and phage during infant gut colonization

  Itai Sharon;Michael J. Morowitz;Brian C. Thomas;Elizabeth K. Costello

  511
  Citations

• Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems

  Basem Al-Shayeb;Rohan Sachdeva;Lin-Xing Chen;Fred Ward

  504
  Citations

• Intestinal Epithelial Toll-Like Receptor 4 Regulates Goblet Cell Development and Is Required for Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Mice

  Chhinder P. Sodhi;Chhinder P. Sodhi;Matthew D. Neal;Matthew D. Neal;Richard Siggers;Richard Siggers;Shonan Sho;Shonan Sho

  346
  Citations

• Redefining the role of intestinal microbes in the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis.

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  242
  Citations

• Strain-resolved community genomic analysis of gut microbial colonization in a premature infant

  Michael J. Morowitz;Vincent J. Denef;Elizabeth K. Costello;Brian C. Thomas

  235
  Citations

• Contributions of Intestinal Bacteria to Nutrition and Metabolism in the Critically Ill

  Unknown

  232
  Citations

• Strain-resolved analysis of hospital rooms and infants reveals overlap between the human and room microbiome.

  Brandon Brooks;Matthew R. Olm;Brian A. Firek;Robyn Baker

  229
  Citations

• Microbiome Assembly across Multiple Body Sites in Low-Birthweight Infants

  Elizabeth K. Costello;Erica M. Carlisle;Elisabeth M. Bik;Michael J. Morowitz

  178
  Citations

• Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella, and fimbriae-encoding bacteria

  Matthew R. Olm;Nicholas Bhattacharya;Alexander Crits-Christoph;Brian A. Firek

  169
  Citations

• Gut bacteria are rarely shared by co-hospitalized premature infants, regardless of necrotizing enterocolitis development.

  Tali Raveh-Sadka;Brian C Thomas;Andrea Singh;Brian Firek

  144
  Citations

• Disruption of the microbiota across multiple body sites in critically ill children

  Matthew B. Rogers;Brian Firek;Min Shi;Andrew Yeh

  137
  Citations

• Identical bacterial populations colonize premature infant gut, skin, and oral microbiomes and exhibit different in situ growth rates.

  Matthew R. Olm;Christopher T. Brown;Brandon Brooks;Brian Firek

  133
  Citations

• Safety, Clinical Response, and Microbiome Findings Following Fecal Microbiota Transplant in Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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  130
  Citations

• Gut microbial gene expression in mother-fed and formula-fed piglets.

  Valeriy Poroyko;James Robert White;Mei Wang;Sharon Donovan

  125
  Citations

• Dynamics of the preterm gut microbiome in health and disease

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  111
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• The developing premature infant gut microbiome is a major factor shaping the microbiome of neonatal intensive care unit rooms

  Brandon Brooks;Matthew R. Olm;Brian A. Firek;Robyn Baker

  101
  Citations

• Dysbiosis in the intensive care unit: Microbiome science coming to the bedside

  Georgios D Kitsios;Michael J Morowitz;Michael J Morowitz;Robert P Dickson;Gary B. Huffnagle

  98
  Citations

• Machine Learning Leveraging Genomes from Metagenomes Identifies Influential Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Infant Gut Microbiome.

  Sumayah F. Rahman;Matthew R. Olm;Michael J. Morowitz;Jillian F. Banfield

  93
  Citations