William B. Ludington

Johns Hopkins University — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

21h-index2.9kcitations66works6.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences(19), Gut microbiota and health(15), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms(12), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(12), Insect Utilization and Effects(12)

Publications66 total

Structure, function, and quantitative biology of the Drosophila gut microbiome
Current Opinion in Microbiology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Commensal acidification of specific gut regions produces a protective priority effect against enteropathogenic bacterial infection
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
PeakClimber: A software tool for the accurate quantification of complex HPLC chromatograms
Journal of Chromatography B·2025Open Access
Gut microbe-derived lactic acid optimizes host energy metabolism during starvation
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Commensal acidification of specific gut regions produces a protective priority effect against enteropathogenic bacterial infection
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity
Science·2024· 21 citedOpen Access
PeakClimber: A software tool for the accurate quantification of complex multianalyte HPLC chromatograms using the exponential Gaussian function
2024Open Access
See Through the Foregut – Dissecting the <i>Drosophila</i> Foregut Using Optical and Electron Microscopy
Microscopy and Microanalysis·2024
A conserved genetic basis for commensal-host specificity through live imaging of colonization dynamics
2024· 4 citedOpen Access
The importance of host physical niches for the stability of gut microbiome composition
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
Cellular and molecular organization of the <i>Drosophila</i> foregut
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024· 25 citedOpen Access
Master regulators of biological systems in higher dimensions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
First-passage-time statistics of growing microbial populations carry an imprint of initial conditions
Scientific Reports·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
A chemically-defined growth medium to support Lactobacillus-Acetobacter sp. community analysis
PLoS ONE·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Gut microbiome dysbiosis is associated with host genetics in the Norwegian Lundehund
Frontiers in Microbiology·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Expanding evolutionary theories of ageing to better account for symbioses and interactions throughout the Web of Life
Ageing Research Reviews·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
A symbiotic physical niche in Drosophila melanogaster regulates stable association of a multi-species gut microbiota
Nature Communications·2023· 71 citedOpen Access
From worms to humans: Understanding intestinal lipid metabolism via model organisms
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities
The ISME Journal·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
Whole Animal Feeding FLat (WAFFL): a complete and comprehensive validation of a novel, high-throughput fly experimentation system
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Benjamin Obadia(11), Kevin Aumiller(9), Eric W. Jones(8), Jean M. Carlson(7), Haolong Zhu(7), Zehra Tüzün Güvener(6), Wallace F. Marshall(6), Ren Dodge(6), David A. Sivak(5), Andrés Aranda-Díaz(5), Kerwyn Casey Huang(5), Vivian Zhang(4), Lisa Lamberti(4), William W. Ja(4), Daniel J. Martinez(4), Jane L. Yang(4), Alison L. Gould(3), Nikolaos Korasidis(3), Alex Gavryushkin(3), Niko Beerenwinkel(3)