Dan Knights

University of Minnesota — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

81h-index132.4kcitations219works7.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Gut microbiota and health(149), Diet and metabolism studies(47), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research(39), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(21), Nutritional Studies and Diet(17)

Publications215 total

Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk
Nature Communications·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Mechanistic insights into microbiome-dependent and personalized responses to dietary fibre in a randomized controlled trial
2025Open Access
Shared environments can facilitate microbial transmission and alter metabolic outcomes
Gut Microbes·2025Open Access
Gut mycobiome maturation and its determinants during early childhood: a comparison of ITS2 amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing approaches
Frontiers in Microbiology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Metagenomic source tracking after microbiota transplant therapy
Gut Microbes·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Cardiometabolic benefits of a non-industrialized-type diet are linked to gut microbiome modulation
Cell·2025· 41 citedOpen Access
A Randomized Pilot Study of Time-Restricted Eating Shows Minimal Microbiome Changes
Nutrients·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome injury
2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Maternal oral probiotic use is associated with decreased breastmilk inflammatory markers, infant fecal microbiome variation, and altered recognition memory responses in infants—a pilot observational study
Frontiers in Nutrition·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome
Cell Genomics·2024· 24 citedOpen Access
Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth
Nature Communications·2024· 11 citedOpen Access
607-P: Associations of Gut Microbiome with Glycemic Control in a Carbohydrate-Restricted, High-Protein Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes·2024· 1 cited
Author Correction: Shallow shotgun sequencing reduces technical variation in microbiome analysis
Scientific Reports·2024Open Access
Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk
2024· 6 citedOpen Access
LMdist: Local Manifold distance accurately measures beta diversity in ecological gradients
Bioinformatics·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Industrialized human gut microbiota increases CD8+ T cells and mucus thickness in humanized mouse gut
Gut Microbes·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Successful weight regain attenuation by autologous fecal microbiota transplantation is associated with non-core gut microbiota changes during weight loss; randomized controlled trial
Gut Microbes·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Human Cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition, the infant gut microbiome, and infant growth
2023Open Access
P07-059-23 Temporal Pattern of P-Cresol Production in Infants Revealed by Fecal Metabolomic Analysis
Current Developments in Nutrition·2023Open Access
OR22-04-23 Immunometabolic Effects of Physicochemically-Distinct Dietary Fibers in Adults With Excess Body Weight: Towards Personalized Dietary Fiber Strategies
Current Developments in Nutrition·2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Rob Knight(30), Gabriel A. Al‐Ghalith(13), Catherine Lozupone(11), Daniel McDonald(11), Curtis Huttenhower(11), Pajau Vangay(10), Benjamin Hillmann(9), Jeffrey I. Gordon(8), Scott T. Kelley(8), Ruth E. Ley(8), Tonya Ward(8), J. Gregory Caporaso(7), Frederic D. Bushman(7), Manimozhiyan Arumugam(7), Jessica L. Metcalf(7), Se Jin Song(7), Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza(7), Kyle Bittinger(6), Noah Fierer(6), Peter J. Turnbaugh(6)