Latest Research in Computational and Ethical Approaches

*Microbiomes At Guelph team members indicated in bold. Please note this is not an exhaustive list of publications.

2023

• Jegatheesan, T., Moorthy, A. S., & Eberl, H. J. (2023). Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Complex Carbohydrates and the Mucus in a Mathematical Model of a Gut Reactor. Processes, 11(2), 370.

2022

• Emerenini, B. O., & Eberl, H. J. (2022). Reactor scale modeling of quorum sensing induced biofilm dispersal. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 418, 126792.

2021

• DeMone, C., McClure, J. T., Greenwood, S. J., Fung, R., Hwang, M. H., Feng, Z., & Shapiro, K. (2021). A metabarcoding approach for detecting protozoan pathogens in wild oysters from Prince Edward Island, Canada. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 360, 109315.
• Gaebler, H. J., Hughes, J. M., & Eberl, H. J. (2021). Thermodynamic Inhibition in a Biofilm Reactor with Suspended Bacteria. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 83(2), 1-35.
• Ishaq, S. L., Parada, F. J., Wolf, P. G., Bonilla, C. Y., Carney, M. A., Benezra, A., … O’Doherty, K., … & Morar, N. (2021). Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: considering the microbial components of social, environmental, and health justice. MSystems, 6(4), e00471-21.
• O’Doherty, K. C., Shabani, M., Dove, E. S., Bentzen, H. B., Borry, P., Burgess, M. M., … & Burke, W. (2021). Toward better governance of human genomic data. Nature genetics, 53(1), 2-8.
• Rosiana, S., Zhang, L., Kim, G. H., Revtovich, A. V., Uthayakumar, D., Sukumaran, A., … & Shapiro, R. S. (2021). Comprehensive genetic analysis of adhesin proteins and their role in virulence of Candida albicans. Genetics, 217(2), iyab003.
• Vogt, N. A., Hetman, B. M., Pearl, D. L., Vogt, A. A., Reid-Smith, R. J., Parmley, E. J., … Ricker, N., … & Jardine, C. M. (2021). Using whole-genome sequence data to examine the epidemiology of Salmonella, Escherichia coli and associated antimicrobial resistance in raccoons (Procyon lotor), swine manure pits, and soil samples on swine farms in southern Ontario, Canada. PloS one, 16(11), e0260234.

2020

• Jegatheesan, T., & Eberl, H. J. (2020). Modelling the Effects of Antibiotics on Gut Flora Using a Nonlinear Compartment Model with Uncertain Parameters. In International Conference on Computational Science (pp. 399-412). Springer, Cham.
• Ghasemi, M., Freingruber, V., Kuttler, C., & Eberl, H. J. (2020). A mathematical model of quorum quenching in biofilm colonies and its potential role as an adjuvant for antibiotic treatment. Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1-31.
• Mikail, M., O’Doherty, K. C., Poutanen, S. M., & Hota, S. S. (2020). Ethical implications of recruiting universal stool donors for faecal microbiota transplantation. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20(3), e44-e49.
• O’Doherty, K., Shabani, M., Dove, E. S., Bentzen, H. B., Borry, P., Burgess, M., … & Burke, W. (2020). Better governance of human genomic data:: Clarifying the issues and balancing competing values. American Journal of Human Genetics.
• Subedi, S., Neish, D., Bak, S., & Feng, Z. (2020). Cluster analysis of microbiome data by using mixtures of Dirichlet-multinomial regression models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series-C Applied Statistics, 69(5), 1163-1187.