Laura Weyrich

Research Interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Anthropological Genetics Archaeology Dentistry Genomics Medical Microbiology Microbial Ecology Microbial Genetics Palaeoecology

APrf Laura Weyrich

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My research aims to reconstruct the human microbiome in the past using ancient DNA techniques. We are actively reconstructing oral microbial communities from ancient humans on six continents over the past 20,000 years. Our goal is to describe how and why microbial communities in the human body adapt and change in response to alterations in lifestyle, diet, and environment. Understanding these changes may allow us to develop novel treatment strategies to prevent or cure many microbiome-associated diseases in modern populations, such as obesity, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and poor oral health.A quick overview of my research can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1Ma7TBIAw.

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide
2018 - ongoing Node Leader Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiveristy and Heritage
2016 - ongoing Metagenomics Research Cluster Lead Australian Centre for Ancient DNA
2015 - 2018 ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow University of Adelaide
2012 - 2015 ARC Post-Doctoral Research Associate University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
The Pennsylvania State University United States PhD Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology, and Bioethics
South Dakota State University United States B.Sc. Microbiology

Year Citation
2024 Weyrich, L. S., Nath, S., & Jamieson, L. M. (2024). Commercializing equitable, accessible oral microbiome transplantation therapy. Community Dental Health, 41(1), 83-88.
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2024 Nath, S., Weyrich, L., Zilm, P., Kapellas, K., & Jamieson, L. M. (2024). Oral microbiome research from a public health perspective and implications for oral health. Community Dental Health, 41(1), 75-82.
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2024 Ketagoda, D. H. K., Varga, P., Fitzsimmons, T. R., Moore, N. E., Weyrich, L. S., & Zilm, P. S. (2024). Development of an in vitro biofilm model of the human supra-gingival microbiome for Oral microbiome transplantation. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 223, 106961-1-106961-7.
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2024 Nath, S., Zilm, P., Jamieson, L., Ketagoda, D. H. K., Kapellas, K., & Weyrich, L. (2024). Characterising healthy Australian oral microbiomes for 'super donor' selection. Journal of dentistry, 151, 105435-1-105435-9.
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2023 Selway, C. A., Jensen, E. D., Pena, A. S., Smart, G., & Weyrich, L. S. (2023). Type 1 diabetes, periodontal health, and a familial history of hyperlipidaemia is associated with oral microbiota in children: a cross-sectional study. BMC Oral Health, 23(1), 1-9.
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2023 Selway, C. A., Collins, C. T., Makrides, M., Sullivan, T. R., N3RO Steering Committee., & Weyrich, L. S. (2023). Variable preterm oral microbiome stabilizes and reflects a full-term infant profile within three months.. Pediatr Res, 9 pages.
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2023 Kowal, E., Weyrich, L. S., Argüelles, J. M., Bader, A. C., Colwell, C., Cortez, A. D., . . . Tsosie, K. S. (2023). Community partnerships are fundamental to ethical ancient DNA research. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 4(2), 100161.
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2023 Extracting the practices of paleogenomics: A study of ancient DNA labs and research in relation to Native Americans and Indigenous peoples (2023). American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(3), 521.
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2023 Gancz, A. S., & Weyrich, L. S. (2023). Studying ancient human oral microbiomes could yield insights into the evolutionary history of noncommunicable diseases. F1000research, 12, 109.
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2023 Pérez, V., Liu, Y., Wong, W. W., Kessler, A., Cook, P. L. M., Zawadzki, A., . . . Lintern, A. (2023). Using sedimentary prokaryotic communities to assess historical changes in the Gippsland Lakes. Freshwater Biology, 68(11), 1839-1858.
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2022 Thomas, Z. A., Mooney, S., Cadd, H., Baker, A., Turney, C., Schneider, L., . . . Khan, S. J. (2022). Corrigendum to “Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands” [Sci. Total Environ. 802 (2021)149542](S0048969721046167)(10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149542). Science of the Total Environment, 811, 152367.
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2022 Mills, J. G., Selway, C. A., Weyrich, L. S., Skelly, C., Weinstein, P., Thomas, T., . . . Breed, M. F. (2022). Rare genera differentiate urban green space soil bacterial communities in three cities across the world. Access Microbiology, 4(1), 10 pages.
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2022 Guzzo, G. L., Andrews, J. M., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). The Neglected Gut Microbiome: Fungi, Protozoa, and Bacteriophages in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.. Inflamm Bowel Dis, 28(7), 1112-1122.
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2022 Selway, C. A., Sudarpa, J., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). Moving beyond the gut microbiome: Combining systems biology and multi-site microbiome analyses to combat non-communicable diseases. Medicine in Microecology, 12, 100052.
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2022 Bowland, G. B., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). The Oral-Microbiome-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Anthropological Perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.
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2022 Weyrich, L. S. (2022). The Evolutionary History of Human Microbiota and Why it Matters for Human Health Today. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 36(S1).
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2022 Mills, J. G., Selway, C. A., Thomas, T., Weyrich, L. S., & Lowe, A. J. (2022). Schoolyard Biodiversity Determines Short-Term Recovery of Disturbed Skin Microbiota in Children.. Microb Ecol, 86(1), 658-669.
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2022 Nath, S., Pulikkotil, S. J., Weyrich, L., Zilm, P., Kapellas, K., & Jamieson, L. (2022). Effect of Periodontal Interventions on Characteristics of the Periodontal Microbial Profile: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Microorganisms, 10(8), 1582-1-1582-40.
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2022 Pérez, V., Liu, Y., Hengst, M. B., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). A Case Study for the Recovery of Authentic Microbial Ancient DNA from Soil Samples. Microorganisms, 10(8), 1623-1-1623-29.
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2022 Handsley-Davis, M., Kapellas, K., Jamieson, L. M., Hedges, J., Skelly, E., Kaidonis, J., . . . Weyrich, L. S. (2022). Heritage-specific oral microbiota in Indigenous Australian dental calculus. EVOLUTION MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 10(1), 352-362.
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2022 Guzzo, G. L., Mittinty, M. N., Llamas, B., Andrews, J. M., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Have an Altered Gut Microbiome Composition of Fungi and Protozoa. Microorganisms, 10(10), 1910.
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2022 Haas, F., Eisenhofer, R., Schreiber, M., Weyrich, L., & Rensing, S. (2022). Neanderthals did not likely consume <i>Physcomitrium patens</i> – a model moss species.
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2022 Thomas, Z. A., Mooney, S., Cadd, H., Baker, A., Turney, C., Schneider, L., . . . Khan, S. J. (2022). Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands. Science of the Total Environment, 802, 149542-1-149542-14.
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2021 Yip, S., Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh, M., McLelland, D. J., Boardman, W. S. J., Saputra, S., Ebrahimie, E., . . . Trott, D. J. (2021). Porphyromonas spp., Fusobacterium spp., and Bacteroides spp. dominate microbiota in the course of macropod progressive periodontal disease. Scientific reports, 11(1), 17775-1-17775-10.
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2021 Nath, S., Zilm, P., Jamieson, L., Kapellas, K., Goswami, N., Ketagoda, K., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). Development and characterization of an oral microbiome transplant among Australians for the treatment of dental caries and periodontal disease: A study protocol. PLoS One, 16(11), e0260433-1-e0260433-19.
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2021 Mitchell, K. J., Bover, P., Salis, A. T., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. A. (2021). Evidence for Pleistocene gene flow through the ice-free corridor from extinct horses and camels from Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. Quaternary International, 647-648, 71-80.
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2021 Handsley-Davis, M., Kowal, E., Russell, L., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). Researchers using environmental DNA must engage ethically with Indigenous communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(2), 146-148.
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2021 Weyrich, L. S. (2021). The evolutionary history of the human oral microbiota and its implications for modern health. Periodontology 2000, 85(1), 90-100.
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2021 Jensen, E. D., Selway, C. A., Allen, G., Bednarz, J., Weyrich, L. S., Gue, S., . . . Couper, J. (2021). Early markers of periodontal disease and altered oral microbiota are associated with glycemic control in children with type 1 diabetes. Pediatric Diabetes, 22(3), 474-481.
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2021 Mills, J. G., Selway, C. A., Weyrich, L. S., Skelly, C., Weinstein, P., Thomas, T., . . . Breed, M. F. (2021). Rare genera differentiate urban green space soil bacterial communities in three cities across the world.
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2021 Wright, S. L., Dobney, K., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). Advancing and refining archaeological dental calculus research using multiomic frameworks. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 7(1), 13-30.
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2021 Farrer, A. G., Wright, S. L., Skelly, E., Eisenhofer, R., Dobney, K., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 7456-1-7456-14.
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2021 Handsley-Davis, M., Skelly, E., Johnson, N. W., Kapellas, K., Lalloo, R., Kroon, J., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). Biocultural Drivers of Salivary Microbiota in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children. Frontiers in Oral Health, 2, 641328-1-641328-11.
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2021 Legrand, T. P. R. A., Wos-Oxley, M. L., Wynne, J. W., Weyrich, L. S., & Oxley, A. P. A. (2021). Dead or alive: microbial viability treatment reveals both active and inactive bacterial constituents in the fish gut microbiota. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 131(5), 2528-2538.
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2021 Bradshaw, C. J. A., Norman, K., Ulm, S., Williams, A. N., Clarkson, C., Chadœuf, J., . . . Saltré, F. (2021). Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2440-1-2440-11.
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2021 Nath, S., Handsley-Davis, M., Weyrich, L. S., & Jamieson, L. M. (2021). Diversity and bias in oral microbiome research: A commentary. EClinicalMedicine, 36, 100923-1-100923-2.
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2021 Mills, J. G., Selway, C. A., Thomas, T., Weyrich, L. S., & Lowe, A. J. (2021). School yard biodiversity determines short-term recovery of disturbed skin microbiota in children.
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2020 Handsley-Davis, M., Jamieson, L., Kapellas, K., Hedges, J., & Weyrich, L. S. (2020). The role of the oral microbiota in chronic non-communicable disease and its relevance to the Indigenous health gap in Australia. BMC Oral Health, 20(1), 327-1-327-11.
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2020 Selway, C. A., Eisenhofer, R., & Weyrich, L. S. (2020). Microbiome applications for pathology: challenges of low microbial biomass samples during diagnostic testing. Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research, 6(2), 97-106.
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2020 Turney, C. S. M., Fogwill, C. J., Golledge, N. R., McKay, N. P., van Sebille, E., Jones, R. T., . . . Cooper, A. (2020). Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(8), 3996-4006.
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2020 Gatej, S. M., Bright, R., Weyrich, L. S., Marino, V., Christophersen, C. T., Gibson, R. J., . . . Bartold, P. M. (2020). Probiotic Lactobacillus Rhamnosus GG Protects Against P. Gingivalis And F. Nucleatum Gut Dysbiosis. Journal of the International Academy of Periodontology, 22(2), 54-63.
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2020 Legrand, T. P. R. A., Wynne, J. W., Weyrich, L. S., & Oxley, A. P. A. (2020). A microbial sea of possibilities: current knowledge and prospects for an improved understanding of the fish microbiome. Reviews in Aquaculture, 12(2), 1101-1134.
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2020 Liddicoat, C., Sydnor, H., Cando-Dumancela, C., Dresken, R., Liu, J., Gellie, N., . . . Breed, M. F. (2020). Naturally-diverse airborne environmental microbial exposures modulate the gut microbiome and may provide anxiolytic benefits in mice. Science of the Total Environment, 701, 1-11.
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2020 Liu, Y., Weyrich, L. S., & Llamas, B. (2020). More arrows in the ancient DNA quiver: use of paleoepigenomes and paleomicrobiomes to investigate animal adaptation to environment. Molecular biology and evolution, 37(2), 307-319.
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2020 Gaget, V., Hobson, P., Keulen, A., Newton, K., Monis, P., Humpage, A. R., . . . Brookes, J. D. (2020). Toolbox for the sampling and monitoring of benthic cyanobacteria. Water Research, 169(115222), 115222-1-115222-13.
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2020 Mills, J. G., Bissett, A., Gellie, N. J. C., Lowe, A. J., Selway, C. A., Thomas, T., . . . Breed, M. F. (2020). Revegetation of urban green space rewilds soil microbiotas with implications for human health and urban design. Restoration Ecology, 28(Suppl. 4), S322-S334.
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2020 Fogwill, C. J., Turney, C. S. M., Menviel, L., Baker, A., Weber, M. E., Ellis, B., . . . Cooper, A. (2020). Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 13(7), 489-497.
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2020 Arriola, L. A., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. S. (2020). Palaeomicrobiology: application of ancient DNA sequencing to better understand bacterial genome evolution and adaptation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 40-1-40-12.
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2020 Legrand, T. P. R. A., Wynne, J. W., Weyrich, L. S., & Oxley, A. P. A. (2020). Investigating both mucosal immunity and microbiota in response to gut enteritis in yellowtail kingfish. Microorganisms, 8(9), 1-16.
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2020 Selway, C. A., Mills, J. G., Weinstein, P., Skelly, C., Yadav, S., Lowe, A., . . . Weyrich, L. S. (2020). Transfer of environmental microbes to the skin and respiratory tract of humans after urban green space exposure. Environmental International, 145, 106084-1-106084-11.
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2020 Clarke, L. J., Jones, P. J., Ammitzboll, H., Barmuta, L. A., Breed, M. F., Chariton, A., . . . Flies, E. J. (2020). Mainstreaming microbes across biomes. BioScience, 70(7), 589-596.
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2020 Eisenhofer Philipona, R., Kanzawa-Kiriyama, H., Shinoda, K. I., & Weyrich, L. S. (2020). Investigating the demographic history of Japan using ancient oral microbiota. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 375(1812), 20190578-1-20190578-11.
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2020 Skelly, E., Johnson, N. W., Kapellas, K., Kroon, J., Lalloo, R., & Weyrich, L. (2020). Response of salivary microbiota to caries preventive treatment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. Journal of Oral Microbiology, 12(1), 1830623-1-1830623-12.
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2020 Legrand, T. P. R. A., Catalano, S. R., Wos-Oxley, M. L., Wynne, J. W., Weyrich, L. S., & Oxley, A. P. A. (2020). Antibiotic-induced alterations and repopulation dynamics of yellowtail kingfish microbiota. Animal Microbiome, 2(1), 16 pages.
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2020 Pate, F. D., Henneberg, M., Anson, T. J., Owen, T. D., Newchurch, J., Draper, N., . . . Walsh, J. (2020). A stable, inexpensive and widely available burial environment or keeping place for archaeological or historical human skeletal remains. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 38, 68-71.
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2019 Littleford-Colquhoun, B. L., Weyrich, L. S., Kent, N., & Frere, C. H. (2019). City life alters the gut microbiome and stable isotope profiling of the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii). Molecular Ecology, 28(20), 4592-4607.
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2019 Eisenhofer, R., Minich, J. J., Marotz, C., Cooper, A., Knight, R., & Weyrich, L. S. (2019). Contamination in low microbial biomass microbiome studies: issues and recommendations. Trends in Microbiology, 27(2), 105-117.
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2019 Armbrecht, L., Coolen, M., Lejzerowicz, F., George, S., Negandhi, K., Suzuki, Y., . . . Weyrich, L. (2019). Ancient DNA from marine sediments: precautions and considerations for seafloor coring, sample handling and data generation. Earth-Science Reviews, 196, 102887-1-102887-13.
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2019 Shaw, J. L. A., Weyrich, L. S., Hallegraeff, G., & Cooper, A. (2019). Retrospective eDNA assessment of potentially harmful algae in historical ship ballast tank and marine port sediments. Molecular Ecology, 28(10), 2476-2485.
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2019 Mills, J., Brookes, J., Gellie, N., Liddicoat, C., Lowe, A., Sydnor, H., . . . Breed, M. F. (2019). Relating urban biodiversity to human health with the ‘holobiont’ concept. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10(MAR), 8 pages.
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2019 Eisenhofer, R., & Weyrich, L. S. (2019). Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA. PeerJ, 7(3), 1-24.
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2019 Weyrich, L. S., Farrer, A. G., Eisenhofer, R., Arriola Martinez, L., Young, J., Selway, C. A., . . . Cooper, A. (2019). Laboratory contamination over time during low-biomass sample analysis. Molecular ecology resources, 19(4), 982-996.
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2019 Bradshaw, C. J. A., Ulm, S., Williams, A. N., Bird, M. I., Roberts, R. G., Jacobs, Z., . . . Saltré, F. (2019). Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(7), 1057-1063.
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2019 Eisenhofer, R., Anderson, A., Dobney, K., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. (2019). Ancient microbial DNA in dental calculus: a new method for studying rapid human migration events. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14(2), 149-162.
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2019 Poyntz, H., Jones, A., Jauregui, R., Young, W., Gestin, A., Mooney, A., . . . Forbes-Blom, E. (2019). Genetic regulation of antibody responsiveness to immunization in substrains of BALB/c mice. Immunology and Cell Biology, 97(1), 39-53.
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2018 Skelly, E., Kapellas, K., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. (2018). Consequences of colonialism: A microbial perspective to contemporary Indigenous health. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167(2), 423-437.
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2018 Boast, A., Weyrich, L., Wood, J., Metcalf, J., Knight, R., & Cooper, A. (2018). Coprolites reveal ecological interactions lost with the extinction of New Zealand birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(7), 1546-1551.
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2018 Eisenhofer, R., & Weyrich, L. (2018). Proper authentication of ancient DNA is still essential. Genes, 9(3), 5 pages.
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2017 Shaw, J., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2017). Using environmental (e)DNA sequencing for aquatic biodiversity surveys: A beginner's guide. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68(1), 20-33.
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2017 Weyrich, L., Duchene, S., Soubrier, J., Arriola, L., Llamas, B., Breen, J., . . . Cooper, A. (2017). Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus. Nature, 544(7650), 357-361.
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2017 Llamas, B., Valverde, G., Fehren-Schmitz, L., Weyrich, L. S., Cooper, A., & Haak, W. (2017). From the field to the laboratory: Controlling DNA contamination in human ancient DNA research in the high-throughput sequencing era. STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research, 3(1), 1-14.
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2017 Young, J., Austin, J., & Weyrich, L. (2017). Soil DNA metabarcoding and high-throughput sequencing as a forensic tool: considerations, potential limitations and recommendations. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(2), 207-1-207-8.
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2017 Eisenhofer, R., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. (2017). Reply to santiago-rodriguez et al.: Proper authentication of ancient DNA is essential. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(5), 3 pages.
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2017 Frisia, S., Weyrich, L., Hellstrom, J., Borsato, A., Golledge, N., Anesio, A., . . . Cooper, A. (2017). The influence of Antarctic subglacial volcanism on the global iron cycle during the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Communications, 8(1), 9 pages.
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2017 Mills, J., Weinstein, P., Gellie, N., Weyrich, L., Lowe, A., & Breed, M. (2017). Urban habitat restoration provides a human health benefit through microbiome rewilding: the Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis. Restoration Ecology, 25(6), 866-872.
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2017 van den Elsen, L., Poyntz, H., Weyrich, L., Young, W., & Forbes-Blom, E. (2017). Embracing the gut microbiota: the new frontier for inflammatory and infectious diseases. Clinical & Translational Immunology, 6(1), e125-1-e125-9.
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2016 Eisenhofer Philipona, R. A., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. S. (2016). Isolating viable ancient bacteria: what you put in is what you get out. Genome Announcements, 4(4), e00712-16.
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2016 Abdul-Aziz, M., Cooper, A., & Weyrich, L. (2016). Exploring relationships between host genome and microbiome: new insights from genome-wide association studies. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(OCT), 1611-1-1611-9.
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2016 Young, J., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2016). High-throughput sequencing of trace quantities of soil provides reproducible and discriminative fungal DNA profiles. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(2), 478-484.
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2016 Shaw, J., Clarke, L., Wedderburn, S., Barnes, T., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2016). Comparison of environmental DNA metabarcoding and conventional fish survey methods in a river system. Biological Conservation, 197, 131-138.
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2015 Weyrich, L., Dobney, K., & Cooper, A. (2015). Ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus. Journal of Human Evolution, 79, 119-124.
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2015 Cooper, A. J., Weyrich, L. S., Dixit, S., & Farrer, A. G. (2015). The skin microbiome: Associations between altered microbial communities and disease. Australasian Journal of Dermatology, 56(4), 268-274.
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2015 Young, J., Weyrich, L., Clarke, L., & Cooper, A. (2015). Residual soil DNA extraction increases the discriminatory power between samples. Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 11(2), 268-272.
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2015 Young, J., Weyrich, L., Breen, J., Macdonald, L., & Cooper, A. (2015). Predicting the origin of soil evidence: High throughput eukaryote sequencing and MIR spectroscopy applied to a crime scene scenario. Forensic Science International, 251, 22-31.
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2015 Clarke, L., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2015). Reintroduction of locally extinct vertebrates impacts arid soil fungal communities. Molecular Ecology, 24(12), 3194-3205.
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2015 Shaw, J., Monis, P., Weyrich, L., Sawade, E., Drikas, M., & Cooper, A. (2015). Using amplicon sequencing to characterize and monitor bacterial diversity in drinking water distribution systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(18), 6463-6473.
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2015 Jervis-Bardy, J., Rogers, G., Morris, P., Smith-Vaughan, H., Nosworthy, E., Leong, L., . . . Marsh, R. (2015). The microbiome of otitis media with effusion in Indigenous Australian children. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 79(9), 1548-1555.
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2015 Bendor, L., Weyrich, L., Linz, B., Rolin, O., Taylor, D., Goodfield, L., . . . Harvill, E. (2015). Type six secretion system of Bordetella bronchiseptica and adaptive immune components limit intracellular survival during infection. PloS One, 10(10), 1-17.
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2014 Young, J., Rawlence, N., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2014). Limitations and recommendations for successful DNA extraction from forensic soil samples: a review. Science and Justice, 54(3), 238-244.
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2014 Young, J., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2014). Forensic soil DNA analysis using high-throughput sequencing: a comparison of four molecular markers. Forensic Science International: Genetics, 13, 176-184.
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2014 Clarke, L., Soubrier, J., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2014). Environmental metabarcodes for insects: In silico PCR reveals potential for taxonomic bias. Molecular Ecology Resources, 14(6), 1160-1170.
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2014 Weyrich, L. S., Llamas, B., & Cooper, A. (2014). Reply to Santiago-Rodriguez et al.: Was luxS really isolated from 25- to 40-million-year-old bacteria?. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 353(2), 85-86.
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2014 Weyrich, L., Feaga, H., Park, J., Muse, S., Safi, C., Rolin, O., . . . Harvill, E. (2014). Resident microbiota affect bordetella pertussis infectious dose and host specificity. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 209(6), 913-921.
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2013 Adler, C., Dobney, K., Weyrich, L., Kaidonis, J., Walker, A., Haak, W., . . . Cooper, A. (2013). Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions. Nature Genetics, 45(4), 450-455.
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2013 Weyrich, L., & Harvill, E. (2013). Teaching ethical aptitude to graduate student researchers. Accountability in Research: policies and quality assurance, 20(1), 5-12.
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2012 Zhang, X., Weyrich, L., Lavine, J., Karanikas, A., & Harvill, E. (2012). Lack of cross-protection against Bordetella holmesii after pertussis vaccination. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18(11), 1771-1779.
DOI Scopus27 Europe PMC24
2012 Weyrich, L., Rolin, O., Muse, S., Park, J., Spidale, N., Kennett, M., . . . Harvill, E. (2012). A type VI secretion system encoding locus is required for bordetella bronchiseptica immunomodulation and persistence in vivo. PLoS One, 7(10), e45892-1-e45892-12.
DOI Scopus36 Europe PMC28
2009 Buboltz, A. M., Nicholson, T. L., Weyrich, L. S., & Harvill, E. T. (2009). Role of the type III secretion system in a hypervirulent lineage of Bordetella bronchiseptica. Infection and Immunity, 77(9), 3969-3977.
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Year Citation
2022 Zilm, P., Weyrich, L., Bright, R., Gatej, S., Rossi-Fedele, G., Selbach, S., . . . Vasilev, K. (2022). Current and Future Applications to Control Polymicrobial Biofilms Associated with Oral Disease. In K. Richter, & K. N. Kragh (Eds.), Antibiofilm Strategies:Current and Future Applications to Prevent, Control and Eradicate Biofilms (Vol. 11, pp. 399-440). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
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2021 Moore, N. E., & Weyrich, L. S. (2021). A Standardized Approach for Shotgun Metagenomic Analysis of Ancient Dental Calculus. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2327, pp. 93-118). Springer US.
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2018 Weyrich, L. (2018). The history of the human microbiome: Insights from archaeology and ancient DNA. In S. Pilaar Birch (Ed.), Multispecies Archaeology (pp. 230-250). United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2016 Poyntz, H., Robinson, M., Pitt, L., Everitt, C., Jones, A., Plunkett, C., . . . Forbes-Blom, E. (2016). Early life host-microbiota interactions have lifelong consequences for humoral immunity. In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY Vol. 46 (pp. 291). Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Year Citation
2018 Selway, C., Collins, C., Penttila, I., Fink, N., & Weyrich, L. (2018). Disturbed Pre-term Oral Microbiota is Restored to Resemble Full-term Infants. Poster session presented at the meeting of International Association for Dental Research. London, England: J Dent Res.
2017 Mills, J. G., Weinstein., Gellie., Weyrich., Lowe., & Breed. (2017). Restoration of urban green spaces rewilds the environmental microbiome with associated shifts in the human microbiome.. Poster session presented at the meeting of Society for Ecological Restoration. Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.
2017 Weyrich, L., Dobney, K., & Cooper, A. (2017). Insights from Neandertals and beyond: Evolution of the hominin microbiome on a global scale. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), as published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology. New Orleans, LA: Wiley-Liss.
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2015 Miller, C., Franks, C., Breen, J., Weyrich, L., Soubrier, J., Llamas, B., . . . Cooper, A. (2015). Open access to ancient human DNA: An Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) and University Libraries collaboration. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of eResearch Australasia 2016. Brisbane, Australia: eResearch Australasia.
2015 Farrer, A. G., Weyrich, L. S., & Cooper, A. (2015). Ancient DNA studies provide a basis for medical research. Poster session presented at the meeting of 2015 ASMR SA Scientific Meeting. National Wine Centre, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Year Citation
2020 Mills, J. G., Bissett, A., Gellie, N., Lowe, A., Selway, C., Thomas, T., . . . Breed, M. (2020). Revegetation of urban green space rewilds soil microbiotas with implications for human health and urban design.
- Liddicoat, C., Sydnor, H., Cando-Dumancela, C., Dresken, R., Liu, J., Gellie, N., . . . Breed, M. (n.d.). Supporting Data - Naturally-diverse airborne environmental microbial exposures modulate the gut microbiome and may provide anxiolytic benefits in mice.
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- Mitchell, K., Arbos, P. B., Salis, A., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. (n.d.). Horse and camel mitochondrial consensus sequences.
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- Mitchell, K., Arbos, P. B., Salis, A., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. (n.d.). Equus phylogenetic analysis.
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- Mitchell, K., Arbos, P. B., Salis, A., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. (n.d.). Camelops phylogenetic analysis.
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- Mitchell, K., Arbos, P. B., Salis, A., Mudge, C., Heiniger, H., Thompson, M., . . . Meachen, J. (n.d.). Haringtonhippus phylogenetic analyses.
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Year Citation
- Weyrich, L., Farrer, A., Philipona, R. E., Handsley-Davis, M., Martinez, L. A., Young, J., . . . Breen, J. (n.d.). Laboratory contamination over time during low-biomass sample analysis.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2014 Principal Supervisor Genomic evolution of pathogenic oral microbial in homo sapiens using DNA samples from ancient and modern dental Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Luis Arriola-Martinez

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2021 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Restoring Urban and Human Microbiotas Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jacob Geoffrey Mills
2020 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Developing oral microbiome transplantation in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Don Hashan Kevin Ketagoda
2020 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Gut microbiome insights into the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Gina Lucille Guzzo
2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Insights from a multidisciplinary approach to Indigenous microbiome research Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Matilda Handsley-Davis
2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Low-biomass Human Microbiomes: Another Piece to the Puzzle for Non-communicable Diseases Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Caitlin Alyssa Selway
2017 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The functional role of the fish microbiome Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Thibault Philippe Raymond Albert Legrand
2016 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Processes of Industrialisation Influencing the Human Oral Microbiome Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Emily Jean Skelly
2016 - 2019 Co-Supervisor The Role of Epigenetic Modifications and Microbiome Evolution in Bovid Adaption to Environmental Changes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Yichen Liu
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Ancient and Contemporary Analyses of the Impact of the Agricultural Transition on the Human Oral Microbiome Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Muslihudeen Abdul-Razaq Abdul-Aziz
2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor New and Refined Tools and Guidelines to Expand the Scope and Improve the Reproducibility of Palaeomicrobiological Research Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Raphael Alexandre Eisenhofer Philipona
2014 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Ancient DNA of New Zealand's extinct avifauna: Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to research the paleoecology of the megaherbivore moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) and the phylogenetics of the enigmatic gruiform Aptornis (Aves: Aptornithidae) Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Alexander Peter Boast
2014 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Metagenomic amplicon sequencing as a rapid and high-throughput tool for aquatic biodiversity surveys Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jennifer Shaw
2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Ancient DNA Studies of Dental Calculus Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Andrew Graham Farrer
2013 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Application of DNA metabarcoding and high-throughput sequencing for enhanced forensic soil DNA analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jennifer Young

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