Ph.D.: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Colorado, Boulder, 2001-2004

Cell Signaling Informatics & Proteomics Nucleic Acids Structural Biology

Comparison of the vaginal microbial communities in women with recurrent genital HSV receiving acyclovir intravaginal rings LK Ursell, M Gunawardana, S Chang, M Mullen, JA Moss, BC Herold, ... Antiviral research 102, 87-94 2014

What Is the Value of a Food and Drug Administration Investigational New Drug Application for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Treat Clostridium difficile Infection? GA Hecht, MJ Blaser, J Gordon, LM Kaplan, R Knight, L Laine, R Peek, ... Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology: the official clinical practice ... 2014

Genomic Standards Consortium Projects D Field, P Sterk, R Kottmann, W De Smet, L Amaral-Zettler, G Cochrane, ... Standards in Genomic Sciences 9 (3) 2014

Metagenomics reveals sediment microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill OU Mason, NM Scott, A Gonzalez, A Robbins-Pianka, J B?lum, J Kimbrel, ... The ISME Journal 2014

Technology and Techniques for Microbial Ecology via DNA Sequencing WA Walters, R Knight Annals of the American Thoracic Society 11 (Supplement 1), S16-S20 2014

Diversity of Rickettsiales in the Microbiome of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum L Ponnusamy, A Gonzalez, W Van Treuren, S Weiss, CM Parobek, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 80 (1), 354-359 2014

Toward Effective Probiotics for Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders JA Gilbert, R Krajmalnik-Brown, DL Porazinska, SJ Weiss, R Knight Cell 155 (7), 1446-1448 2013

Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) AH Loudon, DC Woodhams, LW Parfrey, H Archer, R Knight, V McKenzie, ... The ISME Journal 2013

EMPeror: a tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data Y Vázquez-Baeza, M Pirrung, A Gonzalez, R Knight GigaScience 2 (1), 1-4 2013

A Modular Organization of the Human Intestinal Mucosal Microbiota and Its Association with Inflammatory Bowel Disease M Tong, X Li, LW Parfrey, B Roth, A Ippoliti, B Wei, J Borneman, ... PLOS ONE 8 (11), e80702 2013

Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States N Fierer, J Ladau, JC Clemente, JW Leff, SM Owens, KS Pollard, R Knight, ... Science 342 (6158), 621-624 2013

MIxS-BE: a MIxS extension defining a minimum information standard for sequence data from the built environment EM Glass, Y Dribinsky, P Yilmaz, H Levin, R Van Pelt, D Wendel, A Wilke, ... The ISME Journal 2013

Genetically dictated change in host mucus carbohydrate landscape exerts a diet-dependent effect on the gut microbiota PC Kashyap, A Marcobal, LK Ursell, SA Smits, ED Sonnenburg, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (42), 17059-17064 2013

A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system JL Metcalf, L Wegener Parfrey, A Gonzalez, CL Lauber, D Knights, ... eLife 2 2013

Genetically dictated change in host mucus carbohydrate landscape exerts a diet-dependent effect on the gut microbiota PC Kashyap, A Marcobal, LK Ursell, SA Smits, ED Sonnenburg, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (42), 17059-17064 2013

The amphibian skin‐associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages JG Kueneman, LW Parfrey, DC Woodhams, HM Archer, R Knight, ... Molecular Ecology 2013

Meta-analyses of studies of the human microbiota CA Lozupone, J Stombaugh, A Gonzalez, G Ackermann, D Wendel, ... Genome research 23 (10), 1704-1714 2013

Alterations in the Gut Microbiota Associated with HIV-1 Infection CA Lozupone, M Li, TB Campbell, SC Flores, D Linderman, MJ Gebert, ... Cell Host & Microbe 14 (3), 329-339 2013

Co-Enriching Microflora Associated with Culture Based Methods to Detect Salmonella from Tomato Phyllosphere AR Ottesen, A Gonzalez, R Bell, C Arce, S Rideout, M Allard, P Evans, ... PLOS ONE 8 (9), e73079 2013

Gut Microbiota from Twins Discordant for Obesity Modulate Metabolism in Mice VK Ridaura, JJ Faith, FE Rey, J Cheng, AE Duncan, AL Kau, NW Griffin, ... Science 341 (6150), 1241214 2013