Publications

All publications are listed in reversed chronological order.

2024

  1. Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons
    Mary Chege, Pamela Ferretti, Shasta Webb, Rosaline Macharia, George Obiero, Joseph Kamau, Susan Alberts, Jenny Tung, Mercy Akinyi, and Elizabeth Archie
    bioRxiv, 2024
  2. Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations
    Suguru Nishijima, Evelina Stankevic, Oliver Aasmets, Thomas S.B. Schmidt, Naoyoshi Nagata, Marisa Isabell Keller, Pamela Ferretti, Helene Bæk Juel, Anthony Fullam, Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani, Christian Schudoma, Johanne Kragh Hansen, Louise Aas Holm, Mads Israelsen, Robert Schierwagen, Nikolaj Torp, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Flemming Bendtsen, Charlotte Brøns, Cilius Esmann Fonvig, Jens-Christian Holm, Trine Nielsen, Julie Steen Pedersen, Maja Sofie Thiele, Jonel Trebicka, Elin Org, Aleksander Krag, Torben Hansen, Michael Kuhn, Peer Bork, MicrobLiver Consortia, and  GALAXY
    Cell, 2024
  3. Assembly, stability, and dynamics of the infant gut microbiome are linked to bacterial strains and functions in mother’s milk
    Pamela Ferretti*, Mattea Allert*, Kelsey Johnson, Timothy Heisel, Sara Gonia, Dan Knights, David Fields, Frank Albert, Ellen Demerath, Cheryl Gale, and Ran Blekhman
    bioRxiv, 2024

2023

  1. SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource
    Thomas SB Schmidt*, Anthony Fullam*, Pamela Ferretti, Askarbek Orakov, Oleksandr Maistrenko, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Ivica Letunic, Yiqian Duan, Thea Van Rossum, Shinichi Sunagawa, Daniel Mende, Robert Finn, Michael Kuhn, Luis Pedro Coelho, and Peer Bork
    Nucleic Acids Research, 2023
  2. C. difficile may be overdiagnosed in adults and is a prevalent commensal in infants
    Pamela Ferretti, Jakob Wirbel*, Oleksandr M Maistrenko*, Thea Van Rossum*, Renato Alves, Anthony Fullam, Wasiu Akanni, Christian Schudoma, Anna Schwarz, Roman Thielemann, Leonie Thomas, Stefanie Kandels, Rajna Hercog, Anja Telzerow, Ivica Letunic, Michael Kuhn, Georg Zeller, Thomas SB Schmidt, and Peer Bork
    eLife, 2023

2022

  1. Meconium microbiome of very preterm infants across Germany
    Jonas Klopp, Pamela Ferretti, Claudius U Meyer, Katja Hilbert, Annette Haiß, Janina Marißen, Philipp Henneke, Hannes Hudalla, Sabine Pirr, Dorothee Viemann, Michael Zemlin, Sofia Kirke Forslund, Christoph Härtel, Peer Bork, Stephan Gehring, Thea Van Rossum, and PRIMAL Consortium
    MSphere, 2022
  2. Towards the biogeography of prokaryotic genes
    Luis Pedro Coelho, Renato Alves, Álvaro Rodríguez Del Río, Pernille Neve Myers, Carlos P Cantalapiedra, Joaquín Giner-Lamia, Thomas Sebastian Schmidt, Daniel R Mende, Askarbek Orakov, Ivica Letunic, Falk Hildebrand, Thea Van Rossum, Sofia K Forslund, Supriya Khedkar, Oleksandr M Maistrenko, Shaojun Pan, Longhao Jia, Pamela Ferretti, Shinichi Sunagawa, Xing-Ming Zhao, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, and Peer Bork
    Nature, 2022

2021

  1. Characterization of 17 strains belonging to the Mycobacterium simiae complex and description of Mycobacterium paraense sp. nov.
    Ana R Fusco Costa, Tarcisio Fedrizzi, Maria L Lopes, Monica Pecorari, Wana L Oliveira Costa, Elisabetta Giacobazzi, Jeann R Costa Bahia, Veronica De Sanctis, Karla V Batista Lima, Roberto Bertorelli, Antonella Grottola, Anna Fabio, Alessandro Mariottini, Pamela Ferretti, and  others
    International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 2021
  2. Metagenomic assessment of the global diversity and distribution of bacteria and fungi
    Mohammad Bahram, Tarquin Netherway, Clémence Frioux, Pamela Ferretti, Luis Pedro Coelho, Stefan Geisen, Peer Bork, and Falk Hildebrand
    Environmental Microbiology, 2021
  3. Experimental metagenomics and ribosomal profiling of the human skin microbiome
    Falk Hildebrand, Toni I Gossmann, Clemence Frioux, Ezgi Özkurt, Pernille Neve Myers, Pamela Ferretti, Michael Kuhn, Mohammad Bahram, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, and Peer Bork
    Experimental dermatology, 2021
  4. Dispersal strategies shape persistence and evolution of human gut bacteria
    Falk Hildebrand, Toni I Gossmann, Clemence Frioux, Ezgi Özkurt, Pernille Neve Myers, Pamela Ferretti, Michael Kuhn, Mohammad Bahram, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, and Peer Bork
    Cell Host & Microbe, 2021

2020

  1. Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes
    Thea Van Rossum*, Pamela Ferretti*, M. Oleksandr Maistrenko*, and Peer Bork
    Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020

2018

  1. The short-term impact of probiotic consumption on the oral cavity microbiome
    Erik Dassi*, Pamela Ferretti*, Giuseppina Covello, Roberto Bertorelli, Michela A Denti, Veronica De Sanctis, Adrian Tett, and Nicola Segata
    Scientific reports, 2018
  2. Strain-Level Analysis of Mother-to-Child Bacterial Transmission during the First Few Months of Life
    Moran Yassour, Eeva Jason, Larson J. Hogstrom, Timothy D. Arthur, Surya Tripathi, Heli Siljander, Jenni Selvenius, Sami Oikarinen, Heikki Hyöty, Suvi M. Virtanen, Jorma Ilonen, Pamela Ferretti, Edoardo Pasolli, Adrian Tett, Francesco Asnicar, Nicola Segata, Hera Vlamakis, Eric S. Lander, Curtis Huttenhower, Mikael Knip, and Ramnik J. Xavier
    Cell Host & Microbe, 2018
  3. Mother-to-infant microbial transmission from different body sites shapes the developing infant gut microbiome
    Pamela Ferretti, Edoardo Pasolli, Adrian Tett, Francesco Asnicar, Valentina Gorfer, Sabina Fedi, Federica Armanini, Duy Tin Truong, Serena Manara, Moreno Zolfo, and  others
    Cell host & microbe, 2018

2017

  1. Maternal inheritance of bifidobacterial communities and bifidophages in infants through vertical transmission
    Sabrina Duranti, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Leonardo Mancabelli, Federica Armanini, Francesca Turroni, Kieran James, Pamela Ferretti, Valentina Gorfer, Chiara Ferrario, and  others
    Microbiome, 2017
  2. Studying vertical microbiome transmission from mothers to infants by strain-level metagenomic profiling
    Francesco Asnicar, Serena Manara, Moreno Zolfo, Duy Tin Truong, Matthias Scholz, Federica Armanini, Pamela Ferretti, Valentina Gorfer, Anna Pedrotti, Adrian Tett, and Nicola Segata
    mSystems, 2017