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Sylvia H. Duncan is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The work notably intersects several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, and Plant Science.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
  • Food composition and properties
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Selected recent publications by Sylvia H. Duncan cover a range of microbiome and gut health-related studies:

  • Vitamin Biosynthesis by Human Gut Butyrate-Producing Bacteria and Cross-Feeding in Synthetic Microbial Communities, 2020, mBio
  • Pivotal Roles for pH, Lactate, and Lactate-Utilizing Bacteria in the Stability of a Human Colonic Microbial Ecosystem, 2020, mSystems
  • Microbial lactate utilisation and the stability of the gut microbiome, 2022, Gut Microbiome
  • Analysis of 1321 Eubacterium rectale genomes from metagenomes uncovers complex phylogeographic population structure and subspecies functional adaptations, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Relative abundance of the Prevotella genus within the human gut microbiota of elderly volunteers determines the inter-individual responses to dietary supplementation with wheat bran arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides, 2020, BMC Microbiology

The scientist often collaborates with various researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Alan W. Walker
  • Petra Louis
  • Wendy R. Russell
  • Harry J. Flint
  • Madalina Neacsu

Publications regularly appear in several well-known venues, reflecting consistent contributions to the field. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Gut Microbiome
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Best Publications

  • Microbial degradation of complex carbohydrates in the gut

    Harry J. Flint;Karen P. Scott;Sylvia H. Duncan;Petra Louis

  • The role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

    Harry J. Flint;Karen P. Scott;Petra Louis;Sylvia H. Duncan

  • Dominant and diet-responsive groups of bacteria within the human colonic microbiota.

    Alan W Walker;Jennifer Ince;Sylvia H Duncan;Lucy M Webster

  • The microbiology of butyrate formation in the human colon.

    Susan E Pryde;Sylvia H Duncan;Georgina L Hold;Colin S Stewart

  • Human colonic microbiota associated with diet, obesity and weight loss.

    Sylvia Helen Duncan;Gerald Lobley;Grietje Holtrop;J. Ince

  • Phylogenetic distribution of three pathways for propionate production within the human gut microbiota

    Nicole Reichardt;Sylvia Helen Duncan;Pauline Young;Alvaro Belenguer

  • Lactate-Utilizing Bacteria, Isolated from Human Feces, That Produce Butyrate as a Major Fermentation Product

    Sylvia Helen Duncan;Petra Louis;Harry James Flint

  • The influence of diet on the gut microbiota.

    Karen P. Scott;Silvia W. Gratz;Paul O. Sheridan;Harry J. Flint

  • Phylogenetic Relationships of Butyrate-Producing Bacteria from the Human Gut

    Adela Barcenilla;Susan E. Pryde;Jennifer C. Martin;Sylvia H. Duncan

  • Ruminococcus bromii is a keystone species for the degradation of resistant starch in the human colon.

    Xiaolei Ze;Sylvia Helen Duncan;Petra Louis;Harry James Flint

  • Reduced Dietary Intake of Carbohydrates by Obese Subjects Results in Decreased Concentrations of Butyrate and Butyrate-Producing Bacteria in Feces

    Sylvia H. Duncan;Alvaro Belenguer;Grietje Holtrop;Alexandra M. Johnstone

  • Links between diet, gut microbiota composition and gut metabolism.

    Harry James Flint;Sylvia H. Duncan;Karen P. Scott;Petra Louis

  • Two Routes of Metabolic Cross-Feeding between Bifidobacterium adolescentis and Butyrate-Producing Anaerobes from the Human Gut

    Alvaro Belenguer;Sylvia H. Duncan;A. Graham Calder;Grietje Holtrop

  • Understanding the effects of diet on bacterial metabolism in the large intestine

    Petra Louis;Karen Patricia Scott;Sylvia Helen Duncan;Harry James Flint

  • pH and peptide supply can radically alter bacterial populations and short-chain fatty acid ratios within microbial communities from the human colon.

    Alan W Walker;Sylvia H Duncan;E Carol McWilliam Leitch;Matthew W Child

  • High-protein, reduced-carbohydrate weight-loss diets promote metabolite profiles likely to be detrimental to colonic health

    Wendy R Russell;Silvia W Gratz;Sylvia H Duncan;Grietje Holtrop

  • The role of pH in determining the species composition of the human colonic microbiota

    Sylvia H. Duncan;Petra Louis;John M. Thomson;Harry J. Flint

  • Faecalibacterium prausnitzii : from microbiology to diagnostics and prognostics

    Mireia Lopez-Siles;Sylvia H Duncan;L Jesús Garcia-Gil;Margarita Martinez-Medina

  • Growth requirements and fermentation products of Fusobacterium prausnitzii, and a proposal to reclassify it as Faecalibacterium prausnitzii gen. nov., comb. nov.

    Sylvia H Duncan;Georgina L Hold;Hermie J M Harmsen;Colin S Stewart

  • Interactions and competition within the microbial community of the human colon: links between diet and health

    Harry James Flint;Sylvia Helen Duncan;Karen Patricia Scott;Petra Louis

  • Targeted Restoration of the Intestinal Microbiota with a Simple, Defined Bacteriotherapy Resolves Relapsing Clostridium difficile Disease in Mice

    Trevor D. Lawley;Simon Clare;Alan W. Walker;Mark D. Stares

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry J. Flint
Harry J. Flint University of Aberdeen
Petra Louis
Petra Louis University of Aberdeen
Alan W. Walker
Alan W. Walker University of Aberdeen
Karen P. Scott
Karen P. Scott University of Aberdeen
Hermie J. M. Harmsen
Hermie J. M. Harmsen University Medical Center Groningen
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Georgina L. Hold
Georgina L. Hold University of New South Wales
Gerald E. Lobley
Gerald E. Lobley University of Aberdeen
Edward A. Bayer
Edward A. Bayer Weizmann Institute of Science
Eric C. Martens
Eric C. Martens University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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