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Overview

Stefan J. Green is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several domains within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Green's work focuses significantly on microbial ecology, physiology, and epidemiology, with a notable emphasis on gut microbiota and health.

Key research topics covered by Green include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Reproductive tract infections research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Landfill Environmental Impact Studies

Green's publication record includes study contributions to various well-established scientific journals and platforms, reflecting a diverse engagement with the academic community. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Single-cell transcriptional changes associated with drug tolerance and response to combination therapies in cancer, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An open label, non-randomized study assessing a prebiotic fiber intervention in a small cohort of Parkinson's disease participants, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Sleep fragmentation increases blood pressure and is associated with alterations in the gut microbiome and fecal metabolome in rats, 2020, Physiological Genomics
  • Single-Arm, Non-randomized, Time Series, Single-Subject Study of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Multiple Sclerosis, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • The Microbiome Composition of a Man's Penis Predicts Incident Bacterial Vaginosis in His Female Sex Partner With High Accuracy, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Green collaborates frequently with several co-authors, contributing to a collective advancement in their fields of interest. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ankur Naqib
  • Ali Keshavarzian
  • Phillip A. Engen
  • George E. Chlipala
  • Maliha Shaikh

The main fields of study within Green's body of work are:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields that receive particular focus in Green's research are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Physiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Ecology

Best Publications

  • Colonic bacterial composition in Parkinson's disease.

    Ali Keshavarzian;Stefan J. Green;Phillip A. Engen;Robin M. Voigt

  • The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

    Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Manjula Darshi;Stefan J. Green;Ruben C. Gur

  • Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and the Bacterial Community Response in Gulf of Mexico Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Joel E. Kostka;Om Prakash;Will A. Overholt;Stefan J. Green;Stefan J. Green

  • Circadian Disorganization Alters Intestinal Microbiota

    Robin M. Voigt;Christopher B. Forsyth;Stefan J. Green;Ece Mutlu

  • The Gastrointestinal Microbiome: Alcohol Effects on the Composition of Intestinal Microbiota.

    Phillip A Engen;Stefan J Green;Robin M Voigt;Christopher B Forsyth

  • Taxa-specific changes in soil microbial community composition induced by pyrogenic carbon amendments

    Christina L.M. Khodadad;Andrew R. Zimmerman;Stefan J. Green;Sivakumar Uthandi

  • Role of TLR4 in the gut-brain axis in Parkinson’s disease: a translational study from men to mice

    Paula Perez-Pardo;Hemraj B Dodiya;Phillip A Engen;Christopher B Forsyth

  • Massively parallel rRNA gene sequencing exacerbates the potential for biased community diversity comparisons due to variable library sizes.

    Thomas Gihring;Stefan Green;Christopher Warren Schadt

  • Niche and host-associated functional signatures of the root surface microbiome

    Maya Ofek-Lalzar;Noa Sela;Milana Goldman-Voronov;Stefan J. Green

  • Chronic oral application of a periodontal pathogen results in brain inflammation, neurodegeneration and amyloid beta production in wild type mice

    Vladimir Ilievski;Paulina K. Zuchowska;Stefan J. Green;Peter T. Toth

  • Chronic stress-induced gut dysfunction exacerbates Parkinson's disease phenotype and pathology in a rotenone-induced mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

    Hemraj B. Dodiya;Christopher B. Forsyth;Robin M. Voigt;Phillip A. Engen

  • Burn Injury Alters the Intestinal Microbiome and Increases Gut Permeability and Bacterial Translocation.

    Zachary M. Earley;Suhail Akhtar;Stefan J. Green;Ankur Naqib

  • Ketogenic diet enhances neurovascular function with altered gut microbiome in young healthy mice

    David Ma;Amy C. Wang;Ishita Parikh;Stefan J. Green

  • Denitrifying Bacteria from the Genus Rhodanobacter Dominate Bacterial Communities in the Highly Contaminated Subsurface of a Nuclear Legacy Waste Site

    Stefan J. Green;Om Prakash;Puja Jasrotia;Will A. Overholt

  • Diversity of sulfate-reducing bacteria in oxic and anoxic regions of a microbial mat characterized by comparative analysis of dissimilatory sulfite reductase genes.

    Dror Minz;Jodi L. Flax;Stefan J. Green;Gerard Muyzer

  • Circadian Rhythm and the Gut Microbiome

    R M Voigt;C B Forsyth;S J Green;P A Engen

  • Microbial community structure and activity linked to contrasting biogeochemical gradients in bog and fen environments of the Glacial Lake Agassiz Peatland.

    X. Lin;S. Green;M. M. Tfaily;O. Prakash

  • Deconstructing the polymerase chain reaction: understanding and correcting bias associated with primer degeneracies and primer-template mismatches.

    Stefan J. Green;Raghavee Venkatramanan;Ankur Naqib

  • Bioelectrochemical perchlorate reduction in a microbial fuel cell

    Caitlyn S Butler;Peter Clauwaert;Stefan J Green;Willy Verstraete

  • Dietary Fiber Treatment Corrects the Composition of Gut Microbiota, Promotes SCFA Production, and Suppresses Colon Carcinogenesis

    Faraz Bishehsari;Phillip A. Engen;Nailliw Z. Preite;Yunus E. Tuncil

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Keshavarzian
Ali Keshavarzian Rush University Medical Center
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Dror Minz
Dror Minz Agricultural Research Organization
Robert A. Weinstein
Robert A. Weinstein Rush University Medical Center
David B. Watson
David B. Watson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alan L. Landay
Alan L. Landay The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Yitzhak Hadar
Yitzhak Hadar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fred W. Turek
Fred W. Turek Northwestern University
Bruce R. Hamaker
Bruce R. Hamaker Purdue University West Lafayette
Martha Hotz Vitaterna
Martha Hotz Vitaterna Northwestern University

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