Laura Weyrich

School of Biological Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

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.

Career
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Contact

Appointments

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

Education

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

Research Interests

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

Journals

Year	Citation
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. DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC2
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. DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC3
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. DOI Scopus20
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. DOI
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. DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC2
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. DOI
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. DOI Europe PMC1
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. DOI Scopus24 WoS15 Europe PMC16
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. DOI Scopus4
2022	Bowland, G. B., & Weyrich, L. S. (2022). The Oral-Microbiome-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Anthropological Perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13. DOI Scopus30
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). DOI
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. DOI Scopus5 WoS3 Europe PMC1
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), 1-40. DOI Scopus6 WoS3 Europe PMC4
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. DOI Scopus6 WoS3 Europe PMC3
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. DOI Scopus9 WoS1 Europe PMC6
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. DOI Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC2
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. DOI
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. DOI Scopus17 WoS13 Europe PMC1
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. DOI Scopus13 WoS5 Europe PMC8
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. DOI Scopus25 WoS11 Europe PMC14
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. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
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. DOI Scopus19 WoS13 Europe PMC9
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. DOI Scopus29 Europe PMC16
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. DOI Scopus23 WoS16 Europe PMC18
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. DOI
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. DOI Scopus13
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. DOI Scopus16 WoS7 Europe PMC12
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. DOI Scopus8 WoS3 Europe PMC5
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. DOI Scopus8 WoS3 Europe PMC6
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. DOI Scopus43 WoS21 Europe PMC10
2021	Nath, S., Handsley-Davis, M., Weyrich, L. S., & Jamieson, L. M. (2021). Diversity and bias in oral microbiome research: A commentary. EClinicalMedicine, 36, 2 pages. DOI Scopus10 WoS4 Europe PMC7
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. DOI
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. DOI Scopus9 WoS6 Europe PMC9
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. DOI Scopus31 WoS18 Europe PMC19
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. DOI Scopus57 WoS37 Europe PMC11
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), 18-27. Europe PMC8
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. DOI Scopus122 WoS85
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. DOI Scopus107 WoS72 Europe PMC43
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. DOI Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC6
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, 115222-1-115222-13. DOI Scopus21 WoS15 Europe PMC5
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. DOI Scopus50 WoS32
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. DOI Scopus26 WoS20
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. DOI Scopus19 WoS11
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. DOI Scopus23 WoS15 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus109 WoS68 Europe PMC51
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. DOI Scopus7 WoS6
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. DOI Scopus20 WoS13 Europe PMC10
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. DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus24 WoS19 Europe PMC11
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. Scopus1
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. DOI Scopus25 Europe PMC15
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. DOI Scopus566 WoS455 Europe PMC392
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. DOI Scopus48 WoS30
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. DOI Scopus30 WoS19 Europe PMC6
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. DOI Scopus67 WoS49 Europe PMC26
2019	Eisenhofer, R., & Weyrich, L. S. (2019). Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA. PeerJ, 7(3), 1-24. DOI Scopus24 WoS16 Europe PMC16
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. DOI Scopus143 WoS114 Europe PMC94
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. DOI Scopus44 WoS29 Europe PMC14
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. DOI Scopus14 WoS10
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. DOI Scopus8 WoS8 Europe PMC6
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. DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC9
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. DOI Scopus49 WoS39 Europe PMC20
2018	Eisenhofer, R., & Weyrich, L. (2018). Proper authentication of ancient DNA is still essential. Genes, 9(3), 5 pages. DOI Scopus12 WoS6 Europe PMC10
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. DOI Scopus36 WoS28
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. DOI Scopus345 WoS270 Europe PMC157
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. DOI Scopus127 WoS98
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. DOI Scopus28 WoS23 Europe PMC6
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. DOI Scopus11 WoS12 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus21 WoS18 Europe PMC5
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. DOI Scopus125 WoS91
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. DOI Scopus97
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. DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
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. DOI Scopus22 WoS18 Europe PMC11
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. DOI Scopus17 WoS10 Europe PMC2
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. DOI Scopus235 WoS142
2015	Weyrich, L., Dobney, K., & Cooper, A. (2015). Ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus. Journal of Human Evolution, 79, 119-124. DOI Scopus107 WoS81 Europe PMC41
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. DOI Scopus90 WoS72 Europe PMC48
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. DOI Scopus13 WoS11 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus37 WoS28 Europe PMC12
2015	Clarke, L., Weyrich, L., & Cooper, A. (2015). Reintroduction of locally extinct vertebrates impacts arid soil fungal communities. Molecular Ecology, 24(12), 3194-3205. DOI Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC8
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. DOI Scopus47 WoS40 Europe PMC18
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. DOI Scopus44 WoS42 Europe PMC36
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. DOI Scopus20 Europe PMC15
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. DOI Scopus64 WoS49 Europe PMC23
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. DOI Scopus50 WoS41 Europe PMC19
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. DOI Scopus248 WoS216 Europe PMC65
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. DOI Scopus11 WoS11 Europe PMC7
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. DOI Scopus39 Europe PMC32
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. DOI Scopus455 WoS369 Europe PMC273
2013	Weyrich, L., & Harvill, E. (2013). Teaching ethical aptitude to graduate student researchers. Accountability in Research: policies and quality assurance, 20(1), 5-12. DOI Scopus10 Europe PMC4
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 PMC19
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 Scopus34 Europe PMC23
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. DOI Scopus35 Europe PMC29

Book Chapters

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.
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. DOI Scopus1 Europe PMC1
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. DOI Scopus2

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
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.

Conference Items

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. DOI
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.

Datasets

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. DOI

Filesets

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. DOI

Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2020	Co-Supervisor	Developing Oral Microbiome Transplants in Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Don Hashan Kevin Ketagoda
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

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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 - 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

Email: laura.weyrich@adelaide.edu.au