Ruth E. Ley
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British-American microbial ecologist
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Ruth E. Ley's Degrees
- PhD Microbiology Cornell University
- Bachelors Biology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth E. Ley is a British-American microbial ecologist. Ley was an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University until 2018. She is currently serving as the director of the Microbiome Science Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.
Ruth E. Ley's Published Works
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Published Works
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data (2010) (28011)
- An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest (2006) (9978)
- Structure, Function and Diversity of the Healthy Human Microbiome (2012) (8630)
- Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity (2006) (7376)
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 (2019) (7340)
- A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins (2008) (6962)
- Obesity alters gut microbial ecology. (2005) (5355)
- The Human Microbiome Project (2007) (4601)
- Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human Intestine (2005) (4508)
- Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes (2008) (3056)
- Ecological and Evolutionary Forces Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Human Intestine (2006) (2935)
- Human Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome (2014) (2191)
- A framework for human microbiome research (2012) (2113)
- Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome (2012) (2000)
- Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome (2010) (1881)
- Innate immunity and intestinal microbiota in the development of Type 1 diabetes (2008) (1827)
- Host Remodeling of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Changes during Pregnancy (2012) (1442)
- Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota (2008) (1396)
- Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking Toll-Like Receptor 5 (2010) (1297)
- Diversity and heritability of the maize rhizosphere microbiome under field conditions (2013) (1293)
- Unravelling the effects of the environment and host genotype on the gut microbiome (2011) (1275)
- Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome (2015) (1270)
- The Antibacterial Lectin RegIIIγ Promotes the Spatial Segregation of Microbiota and Host in the Intestine (2011) (1050)
- QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science (2018) (906)
- QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science (2018) (906)
- Human oral, gut, and plaque microbiota in patients with atherosclerosis (2010) (887)
- Reciprocal Gut Microbiota Transplants from Zebrafish and Mice to Germ-free Recipients Reveal Host Habitat Selection (2006) (835)
- Obesity and the human microbiome (2010) (732)
- Genetic Determinants of the Gut Microbiome in UK Twins. (2016) (714)
- The human gut microbiome: ecology and recent evolutionary changes. (2011) (603)
- Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications (2011) (588)
- Proton pump inhibitors alter the composition of the gut microbiota (2015) (577)
- Evolution of Symbiotic Bacteria in the Distal Human Intestine (2007) (562)
- Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition (2017) (561)
- Conducting a Microbiome Study (2014) (553)
- Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites (2015) (540)
- Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys (2011) (497)
- Unexpected Diversity and Complexity of the Guerrero Negro Hypersaline Microbial Mat (2006) (476)
- Microbiota and Host Nutrition across Plant and Animal Kingdoms. (2015) (474)
- Selection on soil microbiomes reveals reproducible impacts on plant function (2014) (450)
- A Guide to Enterotypes across the Human Body: Meta-Analysis of Microbial Community Structures in Human Microbiome Datasets (2013) (445)
- Transient inability to manage proteobacteria promotes chronic gut inflammation in TLR5-deficient mice. (2012) (408)
- Responses of Gut Microbiota to Diet Composition and Weight Loss in Lean and Obese Mice (2012) (367)
- The human microbiome project: exploring the microbial part of ourselves in a changing world (361)
- Development of the human gastrointestinal microbiota and insights from high-throughput sequencing. (2011) (350)
- Genomic features of bacterial adaptation to plants (2017) (333)
- Analysis of gut microbial regulation of host gene expression along the length of the gut and regulation of gut microbial ecology through MyD88 (2011) (327)
- Large-scale replicated field study of maize rhizosphere identifies heritable microbes (2018) (321)
- The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria (2013) (316)
- Gut microbiota in 2015: Prevotella in the gut: choose carefully (2016) (306)
- Innate and adaptive immunity interact to quench microbiome flagellar motility in the gut. (2013) (289)
- Signatures of early frailty in the gut microbiota (2016) (286)
- Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 (2019) (256)
- The human gut bacteria Christensenellaceae are widespread, heritable, and associated with health (2019) (256)
- Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades (2018) (248)
- Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (2016) (228)
- Microbiome and metabolic disease: revisiting the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes (2016) (219)
- Intestinal epithelial cell toll-like receptor 5 regulates the intestinal microbiota to prevent low-grade inflammation and metabolic syndrome in mice. (2014) (219)
- Cross-species comparisons of host genetic associations with the microbiome (2016) (212)
- The Relationship Between the Human Genome and Microbiome Comes into View. (2017) (208)
- ALTERATION OF ECOSYSTEM NITROGEN DYNAMICS BY EXOTIC PLANTS: A CASE STUDY OF C4 GRASSES IN HAWAII (2001) (183)
- AIEC pathobiont instigates chronic colitis in susceptible hosts by altering microbiota composition (2013) (181)
- Heritable components of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat (2016) (179)
- The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010. (2010) (178)
- TGR5 contributes to glucoregulatory improvements after vertical sleeve gastrectomy in mice (2015) (172)
- Gut Microbiota as an Epigenetic Regulator: Pilot Study Based on Whole-Genome Methylation Analysis (2014) (170)
- Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences (2010) (163)
- Branched Chain Fatty Acids Reduce the Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Alter Gastrointestinal Microbial Ecology in a Neonatal Rat Model (2011) (142)
- Subfreezing activity of microorganisms and the potential habitability of Mars' polar regions. (2003) (132)
- Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins. (2019) (131)
- Age and sex-dependent patterns of gut microbial diversity in human adults (2019) (116)
- Sphingolipids produced by gut bacteria enter host metabolic pathways impacting ceramide levels (2020) (113)
- Host-bacterial coevolution and the search for new drug targets. (2008) (111)
- Gut-Microbiota-Metabolite Axis in Early Renal Function Decline (2015) (108)
- Sphingolipids in host-microbial interactions. (2018) (107)
- Probiotics, prebiotics, and the host microbiome: the science of translation (2013) (102)
- Microbial population dynamics in an extreme environment: controlling factors in talus soils at 3750 m in the Colorado Rocky Mountains (2004) (100)
- Alterations to the Gut Microbiome Impair Bone Strength and Tissue Material Properties (2017) (98)
- Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes. (2019) (82)
- Complexity in Natural Microbial Ecosystems: The Guerrero Negro Experience (2003) (81)
- Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) promotes susceptibility of Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) deficient mice to colitis (2011) (70)
- Exotic grass invasion alters potential rates of N fixation in Hawaiian woodlands (1998) (69)
- The human microbiome: eliminating the biomedical/environmental dichotomy in microbial ecology. (2007) (69)
- Advancing the Microbiome Research Community (2014) (66)
- Eucaryotic Diversity in a Hypersaline Microbial Mat (2007) (63)
- Bacterial Community in the Crop of the Hoatzin, a Neotropical Folivorous Flying Bird (2008) (63)
- ABO antigen and secretor statuses are not associated with gut microbiota composition in 1,500 twins (2016) (60)
- Impacts of chronic nitrogen additions vary seasonally and by microbial functional group in tundra soils (2004) (58)
- Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults (2019) (57)
- Potential applications of next generation DNA sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons in microbial water quality monitoring. (2015) (52)
- Randomized Controlled-Feeding Study of Dietary Emulsifier Carboxymethylcellulose Reveals Detrimental Impacts on the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome (2021) (52)
- Flagellin-elicited adaptive immunity suppresses flagellated microbiota and vaccinates against chronic inflammatory diseases (2019) (51)
- Syntrophy via Interspecies H2 Transfer between Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter Underlies Their Global Cooccurrence in the Human Gut (2020) (51)
- Crossover Control Study of the Effect of Personal Care Products Containing Triclosan on the Microbiome (2016) (51)
- Soil Microbial Dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and Biogeochemical Constraints (2004) (50)
- The role of the microbiota in human genetic adaptation (2020) (48)
- Fungal and bacterial responses to phenolic compounds and amino acids in high altitude barren soils (2002) (47)
- Supervised classification of microbiota mitigates mislabeling errors (2011) (45)
- Integrated and novel survey methods for rhinoceros populations confirm the extinction of Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus from Vietnam (2012) (45)
- Discordance between changes in the gut microbiota and pathogenicity in a mouse model of spontaneous colitis (2014) (42)
- Microbial biomass levels in barren and vegetated high altitude talus soils (2001) (40)
- Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults. (2019) (38)
- Diet-induced alterations in gut microflora contribute to lethal pulmonary damage in TLR2/TLR4-deficient mice. (2014) (38)
- Large scale metagenome assembly reveals novel animal-associated microbial genomes, biosynthetic gene clusters, and other genetic diversity (2020) (34)
- Soil Microbial Dynamics in Costa Rica: Seasonal and Biogeochemical Constraints1 (2004) (32)
- Vertical sleeve gastrectomy reduces blood pressure and hypothalamic endoplasmic reticulum stress in mice (2017) (30)
- Human microbiome science: vision for the future, Bethesda, MD, July 24 to 26, 2013 (2014) (29)
- Exploring the maize rhizosphere microbiome in the field (2013) (28)
- Epithelial Sel1L is required for the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis (2016) (28)
- Human microbiome science: vision for the future, (2014) (27)
- Soil ecological interactions: comparisons between tropical and subalpine forests (2001) (25)
- Linking genetic variation in human Toll-like receptor 5 genes to the gut microbiome's potential to cause inflammation. (2014) (24)
- Struo: a pipeline for building custom databases for common metagenome profilers (2019) (23)
- Codiversification of gut microbiota with humans (2021) (21)
- Interactions between the gut microbiome and mucosal immunoglobulins A, M and G in the developing infant gut (2019) (19)
- Harnessing Microbiota to Kill a Pathogen: The sweet tooth of Clostridium difficile (2014) (19)
- Human salivary amylase gene copy number impacts oral and gut microbiomes (2018) (18)
- Struo: a pipeline for building custom databases for common metagenome profilers. (2019) (18)
- The Gene–Microbe Link (2015) (18)
- GeNet: Deep Representations for Metagenomics (2019) (18)
- Blowing Hot and Cold: Body Temperature and the Microbiome (2021) (18)
- Vertebrate host phylogeny influences gut archaeal diversity (2021) (17)
- Corrigendum: Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome (2016) (17)
- DeepMAsED: Evaluating the quality of metagenomic assemblies. (2020) (17)
- Erratum to: signatures of early frailty in the gut microbiota (2016) (16)
- Large-Scale Metagenome Assembly Reveals Novel Animal-Associated Microbial Genomes, Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, and Other Genetic Diversity (2020) (16)
- Resilience of small intestinal beneficial bacteria to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids (2017) (15)
- Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies (2023) (14)
- Publisher Correction: Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition (2018) (14)
- Epidemiology and associated microbiota changes in deployed military personnel at high risk of traveler's diarrhea (2020) (13)
- Interactions between the Gut Microbiome and Mucosal Immunoglobulins A, M, and G in the Developing Infant Gut (2019) (13)
- Methane Emission in a Specific Riparian-Zone Sediment Decreased with Bioelectrochemical Manipulation and Corresponded to the Microbial Community Dynamics (2016) (13)
- Genomic Insights into Adaptations of Trimethylamine-Utilizing Methanogens to Diverse Habitats, Including the Human Gut (2021) (12)
- The “Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence” (MIENS) specification (2010) (11)
- Novel Rhizosphere Soil Alleles for the Enzyme 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase Queried for Function with an In Vivo Competition Assay (2015) (11)
- DeepMAsED: Evaluating the quality of metagenomic assemblies (2019) (11)
- Struo2: efficient metagenome profiling database construction for ever-expanding microbial genome datasets (2021) (10)
- Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites (2015) (10)
- Murine Methyl Donor Deficiency Impairs Early Growth in Association with Dysmorphic Small Intestinal Crypts and Reduced Gut Microbial Community Diversity (2018) (9)
- Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts (2021) (9)
- Corralling Colonic Flagellated Microbiota. (2016) (8)
- Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes (2022) (7)
- The developing infant gut microbiome: A strain-level view. (2022) (6)
- Strain-Level Analysis of Bifidobacterium spp. from Gut Microbiomes of Adults with Differing Lactase Persistence Genotypes (2020) (6)
- SynTracker: a synteny based tool for tracking microbial strains (2021) (6)
- Microbiome engineering: Taming the untractable (2022) (5)
- Silent recognition of flagellins from human gut commensal bacteria by Toll-like receptor 5 (2022) (5)
- Sphingolipid production by gut Bacteroidetes regulates glucose homeostasis (2019) (5)
- The Human Intestinal Microbiota and Microbiome (2009) (5)
- The human microbiome: there is much left to do (2022) (4)
- Strong influence of vertebrate host phylogeny on gut archaeal diversity (2020) (4)
- Nutrition: When guests turn hostile (2013) (4)
- The microbiome affects liver sphingolipids and plasma fatty acids in a murine model of the Western diet based on soybean oil (2020) (3)
- Gestational diabetes is driven by microbiota-induced inflammation months before diagnosis (2023) (3)
- Longitudinal comparison of the developing gut virome in infants and their mothers (2022) (3)
- Genomic insights into adaptations of TMA-utilizing methanogens to diverse habitats including the human gut (2020) (3)
- The microbiome affects liver sphingolipids and plasma fatty acids in a murine model of the Western diet based on soybean oil: Hepatic sphingolipids and plasma FAs are altered by gut microbes. (2021) (3)
- Strain-level analysis of Bifidobacterium spp. from gut microbiomes of adults of differing lactase persistence genotypes (2020) (2)
- Syntrophy via interspecies H2 transfer between Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter underlies their global co-occurrence in the human gut (2019) (2)
- Psyllium Fiber Protects Against Colitis Via Activation of Bile Acid Sensor Farnesoid X Receptor (2023) (2)
- Expanding the scope and scale of microbiome research (2019) (2)
- 279 Altered Gut Microbiota in Toll-Like Receptor-5 (TLR5) Deficient Mice Results in Metabolic Syndrome (2010) (2)
- High-resolution QTL mapping with Diversity Outbred mice identifies genetic variants that impact gut microbiome composition (2019) (2)
- Reclassification of Catabacter hongkongensis as Christensenella hongkongensis comb.nov. based on whole genome analysis (2020) (1)
- Incorporating genome-based phylogeny and trait similarity into diversity assessments helps to resolve a global collection of human gut metagenomes (2020) (1)
- Gut microbiota influence B cell function in a TLR5-dependent manner (2019) (1)
- Mice Lacking Toll-Like Receptor 5 Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in (2010) (1)
- Iron Deficiency Causes Wrinkles in Host-Commensal Relationships. (2020) (1)
- Reclassification of Catabacter hongkongensis as Christensenella hongkongensis comb. nov. based on whole genome analysis (2021) (1)
- Symbiosis research, technology, and education: Proceedings of the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Madison Wisconsin, USA, August 2009 (2010) (1)
- MicroRNAs and extracellular vesicles in the gut: new host modulators of the microbiome? (2021) (1)
- Incorporating genome-based phylogeny and functional similarity into diversity assessments helps to resolve a global collection of human gut metagenomes. (2022) (1)
- An integrated systems-biology platform for power-to-gas technology (2022) (1)
- Interpreting tree ensemble machine learning models with endoR (2022) (1)
- Microbes set the (woodrat) menu: Host genetics control diet-specific gut microbes (2021) (1)
- The virome in adult monozygotic twins with concordant or discordant gut microbiomes (2019) (1)
- First trimester gut microbiome induces Inflammation-dependent gestational diabetes phenotype in mice (2021) (1)
- 57FRAILTY AND THE MICROBIOME: A TWIN STUDY (2015) (1)
- Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition (2017) (0)
- Inositol lipid synthesis is widespread in host-associated Bacteroidetes (2021) (0)
- 0518 - Meta-analysis of human gut metagenomes reveals taxonomic and metabolic signatures of the presence of the methanogen M. smithii (2018) (0)
- Host Genetic Control of the Microbiome in Humans and Maise or Relating Host Genetic Variation to the Microbiome (2011 JGI User Meeting) (2011) (0)
- Women in Metabolism: Part IV. (2016) (0)
- Genomic features of bacterial adaptation to plants (2017) (0)
- Decision letter: A widely distributed metalloenzyme class enables gut microbial metabolism of host- and diet-derived catechols (2019) (0)
- The human gut bacteria Christensenellaceae are widespread, heritable, and associated with health (2019) (0)
- Toll-Like Receptor 5 Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking (2012) (0)
- Sphingolipids produced by gut bacteria enter host metabolic pathways impacting ceramide levels (2020) (0)
- Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (2016) (0)
- Human microbiome science: vision for the future, Bethesda, MD, July 24 to 26, 2013 (2014) (0)
- 0268 - Virome diversity reflects microbiome diversity in monozygotic twins (2018) (0)
- Signatures of early frailty in the gut microbiota (2016) (0)
- Tu2024 AIEC Instigates Chronic Colitis by Altering Microbiota Composition and Its Inherent Pro-Inflammatory Potential (2013) (0)
- Erratum to: signatures of early frailty in the gut microbiota (2016) (0)
- Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades (2019) (0)
- Colitis in TLR5‐deficiency Mice: Role of the Microbiota: P‐259 YI (2012) (0)
- 0907 - Archaeal community assembly in the guts of mostly wild animals (2018) (0)
- 0498 - Deciphering the RNA content of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron’s outer-membrane vesicles (2018) (0)
- The human intestinal microbiota and its relationship to energy balance (2006) (0)
- ResMiCo: increasing the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes with deep learning (2022) (0)
- Microbiome and metabolic disease: revisiting the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes (2016) (0)
- The role of the microbiota in human genetics (2021) (0)
- In Person: Breaking All the Rules (2009) (0)
- Soil type and host genes determine bacterial communities in the plant root microbiome (2012) (0)
- Reply to “Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out” (2016) (0)
- To Which Extent Do Genetics Determine the Composition of the Gut Microbiome (2017) (0)
- ABO antigen and secretor statuses are not associated with gut microbiota composition in 1,500 twins (2016) (0)
- Free-living psychrophilic bacteria of the genus Psychrobacter are descendants of pathobionts (2020) (0)
- Expanding the scope and scale of microbiome research (2019) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition (2018) (0)
- Human microbiome science (2014) (0)
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 (2019) (0)
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