Research

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Selected Publications:

1. Identification of gut microbial species linked with disease variability in a widely used mouse model of colitis (2022). Samuel C. Forster, Simon Clare, Benjamin S. Beresford-Jones, Katherine Harcourt, George Notley, Mark D. Stares, Nitin Kumar, Amelia T. Soderholm, Anne Adoum, Hannah Wong, Bélen Morón, Cordelia Brandt, Gordon Dougan, David J. Adams, Kevin J. Maloy, Virginia A Pedicord, Trevor D Lawley. Nature Microbiology.

2. The Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue enables translation between the mouse and human gut microbiotas via functional mapping (2021). Benjamin S Beresford-Jones, Samuel C Forster, Mark D Stares, George Notley, Elisa Viciani, Hilary P Browne, Daniel J Boehmler, Amelia T Soderholm, Nitin Kumar, Kevin Vervier, Justin R Cross, Alexandre Almeida, Trevor D Lawley, Virginia A Pedicord. Cell Host & Microbe.

3. Site-specific acylation of a bacterial virulence regulator attenuates infection (2020). Zhenrun J. Zhang, Virginia A. Pedicord, Tao Peng, Howard C. Hang. Nature Chemical Biology.

4. Intestinal epithelial cells: at the interface of the microbiota and mucosal immunity (2019). Amelia T. Soderholm, Virginia A. Pedicord. Immunology.

5. Enterococcus faecium secreted antigen A generates muropeptides to enhance host immunity and limit bacterial pathogenesis (2019). Byungchul Kim, Yen-Chih Wang, Charles W Hespen, Juliel Espinosa, Jeanne Salje, Kavita J Rangan, Deena A Oren, Jin Young Kang, Virginia A Pedicord, Howard C. Hang. Elife.

6. Intestinal epithelial and intraepithelial T cell crosstalk mediates a dynamic response to infection (2017). David P Hoytema van Konijnenburg, Bernardo S Reis, Virginia A Pedicord, Julia Farache, Gabriel D Victora, Daniel Mucida. Cell.

7. Exploiting a host-commensal interaction to promote intestinal barrier function and enteric pathogen tolerance (2016). Virginia A Pedicord, Ainsley A. K. Lockhart, Kavita J. Rangan, Jeffrey W. Craig, Jakob Loschko, Aneta Rogoz, Howard C. Hang, Daniel Mucida. Science Immunology.

8. A secreted bacterial peptidoglycan hydrolase enhances tolerance to enteric pathogens (2016). Kavita J Rangan, Virginia A Pedicord, Yen-Chih Wang, Byungchul Kim, Yun Lu, Shai Shaham, Daniel Mucida, Howard C Hang. Science.