Chris van der Gast

Publications

• Converting highly productive arable cropland in Europe to grassland: –a poor candidate for carbon sequestration
• Effects of postage on recovery of pathogens from cystic fibrosis sputum samples
• Microbial biogeography and what baas becking should have said
• Spatial scaling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity is affected by farming practice
• Microbial biogeography: The end of the ubiquitous dispersal hypothesis?
• Exploring the putative interactions between chronic kidney disease and chronic periodontitis
• Reducing viability bias in analysis of gut microbiota in preterm infants at risk of NEC and sepsis
• Long-term cultivation-independent microbial diversity analysis demonstrates that bacterial communities infecting the adult cystic fibrosis lung show stability and resilience
• Spatio-temporal variation of core and satellite arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus communities in Miscanthus giganteus
• The role of local environment and geographical distance in determining community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the landscape scale
• Determining cystic fibrosis-affected lung microbiology: Comparison of spontaneous and serially induced sputum samples by use of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism profiling
• Bacterial community assembly and turnover within the intestines of developing zebrafish
• Plant rhizosphere selection of plasmodiophorid lineages from bulk soil: The importance of "Hidden" diversity
• Respiratory microbiota resistance and resilience to pulmonary exacerbation and subsequent antimicrobial intervention
• Clinical measures of disease in adult non-CF bronchiectasis correlate with airway microbiota composition
• Do Patterns of Bacterial Diversity along Salinity Gradients Differ from Those Observed for Macroorganisms?
• Lung function and microbiota diversity in cystic fibrosis
• The gut microbiota of siblings offers insights into microbial pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease
• Anthropogenic disturbance affects the structure of bacterial communitiesemi
• Marine bacterial communities are resistant to elevated carbon dioxide levels
• Predominant pathogen competition and core microbiota divergence in chronic airway infection
• Long-term changes in soil microbial communities during primary succession
• Time between collection and storage significantly influences bacterial sequence composition in sputum samples from cystic fibrosis respiratory infections
• Temporally variable geographical distance effects contribute to the assembly of root-associated fungal communities
• Three clinically distinct chronic pediatric airway infections share a common core microbiota
• Acquisition and Development of the Extremely Preterm Infant Microbiota Across Multiple Anatomical Sites
• Spatial and temporal variability in the potential of river water biofilms to degrade p-nitrophenol
• Ascitic Microbiota Composition Is Correlated with Clinical Severity in Cirrhosis with Portal Hypertension
• The response of marine picoplankton to ocean acidification
• Response: Commentary: Reducing Viability Bias in Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Preterm Infants at Risk of NEC and Sepsis
• Partitioning core and satellite taxa from within cystic fibrosis lung bacterial communities
• Reducing bias in bacterial community analysis of lower respiratory infections
• Rearing and foraging affects bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) gut microbiota
• Implications of multiple freeze-thawing on respiratory samples for culture-independent analyses
• Evolutionary divergence and biogeography of sympatric niche-differentiated bacterial populations
• Extreme rainfall affects assembly of the root-associated fungal community
• Siblings of patients with Crohn's disease exhibit a biologically relevant dysbiosis in mucosal microbial metacommunities
• Impact of antibiotic treatment for pulmonary exacerbations on bacterial diversity in cystic fibrosis
• Mild Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease Is Associated with Bacterial Community Stability
• Microbial Culture Underestimates Lung Pathogen Detection and Surveillance in Cystic Fibrosis
• Reproducibility of Bacterial Cellulose Nanofibers Over Sub-Cultured Generations for the Development of Novel Textiles
• Intestinal function and transit associate with gut microbiota dysbiosis in cystic fibrosis
• Bacterial Signatures of Paediatric Respiratory Disease
• Bacterial Culture Underestimates Lung Pathogen Detection and Infection Status in Cystic Fibrosis
• Model Systems to Study the Chronic, Polymicrobial Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: Current Approaches and Exploring Future Directions
• Identification of microbial signatures linked to oilseed rape yield decline at the landscape scale
• Helminth burden and ecological factors associated with alterations in wild host gastrointestinal microbiota
• Persistent intestinal abnormalities and symptoms in cystic fibrosis: The underpinning mechanisms impacting gut health and motility. Protocol for a systematic review
• Bacterial communities in larger islands have reduced temporal turnover
• Intestinal function and transit associate with gut microbiota dysbiosis in cystic fibrosis
• The role of microbial community composition and groundwater chemistry in determining isoproturon degradation potential in UK aquifers
• Chapter 6 Islands Shaping Thought in Microbial Ecology
• Effects of pH amendment on metal working fluid wastewater biological treatment using a defined bacterial consortium
• Bioaugmentation for bioremediation: The challenge of strain selection
• Island size and bacterial diversity in an archipelago of engineering machines
• Selection of microbial consortia for treating metal-working fluids
• Ecology: Larger islands house more bacterial taxa
• Bacterial diversity is determined by volume in membrane bioreactors
• Temporal scaling of bacterial taxa is influenced by both stochastic and deterministic ecological factors
• Perspectives and vision for strain selection in bioaugmentation
• The effect of electrokinetics on soil microbial communities
• Enhanced biological treatment of spent metalworking fluids by prior removal of a polymer
• The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology
• Identification and characterisation of bacterial populations of an in-use metal-working fluid by phenotypic and genotypic methodology
• Impact of transgenic tobacco on trinitrotoluene (TNT) contaminated soil community
• How do we compare hundreds of bacterial genomes?
• Temporal dynamics and degradation activity of an bacterial inoculum for treating waste metal-working fluid
• Neutral assembly of bacterial communities
• Bioaugmentation strategies for remediating mixed chemical effluents
• Significant changes in the bacterioplankton community structure of a maritime Antartic freshwater lake following nutrient enrichment
• Bacterioplankton community diversity in a maritime Antarctic lake, determined by culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques
• Bacterial community structure and function in a metal-working fluid
• The impact of zero-valent iron nanoparticles on a river water bacterial community
• Bacteria and island biogeography [2] (multiple letters)
• Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor therapy has negligible effects on the cystic fibrosis gut microbiome
• Impact of extended Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor therapy on the gut microbiome in cystic fibrosis
• Ecological patterns and processes of temporal turnover within lung infection microbiota