Catherine Lozupone

Research topics

• Gut microbiota and health · 3 papers
• Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · 2 papers
• Tryptophan and brain disorders · 1 paper
• Urinary Tract Infections Management · 1 paper
• Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · 1 paper
• Diet and metabolism studies · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Rob Knight · 4 papers
• Curtis Huttenhower · 1 paper
• J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti · 1 paper
• Nicola Segata · 1 paper
• Dirk Gevers · 1 paper
• Ashlee M. Earl · 1 paper
• Michael G. FitzGerald · 1 paper
• Sarah Young · 1 paper

Papers

1. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiomeNature · 2012 · 12,251 citations

   Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although diet, environment, host genetics and early microbial…

2. UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial CommunitiesApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2005 · 8,702 citations

   We introduce here a new method for computing differences between microbial communities based on phylogenetic information. This method, UniFrac, measures the phylogenetic distance between sets of taxa in a phylogenetic tree as the fraction of the branch length of the…

3. Obesity alters gut microbial ecologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 6,271 citations

   We have analyzed 5,088 bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences from the distal intestinal (cecal) microbiota of genetically obese ob/ob mice, lean ob/+ and wild-type siblings, and their ob/+ mothers, all fed the same polysaccharide-rich diet. Although the majority of mouse…

4. Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soilThe ISME Journal · 2010 · 4,320 citations

   Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment (pH 4.0-8.3), in which variation in factors other than pH have been minimized, were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial…