Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Brown BP, Feng, C, Tanko RF,Jaumdally SZ, Bunjun R, Dabee S, Happel A, Onono M, Nair G, Palanee-Phillips T, Scoville CW, Heller K, Nyangahu DD, Baeten JM, Bosinger SE, Burgener A, Passmore JS, Heffron R, Jaspan HB. Copper intrauterine device initiation induces increased vaginal bacterial load of inflammatory anaerobes and depletion of lactobacilli compared to DMPA-IM and LNG implant in a randomized trial. Nature Communications. 2023 Jan 30;14(1):499. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36002-4. PMID36717556
  • Happel AU, Balle C, Havyarimana E, Brown BP, Maust BS, Feng C, Yi BH, Gill K, Bekker LG, Passmore JA, Jaspan HB. Cervicovaginal Human Papillomavirus Genomes, Microbiota Composition and Cytokine Concentrations in South African Adolescents. Viruses. 2023 Mar 15;15(3):758.
  • Jimoh AO, Balle C, Brown BP, Feng C, Havyarimana E, Konstantinus IN, Gill K, Bekker LG, Passmore
    JS, Jaspan HB, Varsani A, Happel AU. Genome Sequences of Anelloviruses, a Genomovirus,
    Microviruses, Polyomaviruses, and an Unclassified Caudovirus Identified in Vaginal Secretions from
    South African Adolescents. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2023 Jan 24;12(1):e0114322. doi:
    10.1128/mra.01143-22. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID36533922
  • Nyangahu DD, Courtney P, Brown BP, Feng C, Havyarimana E, Cohen S, Urdahl K, Jaspan HB. Antibiotic treatment during gestation enhances susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in infant mice. Microbiology Spectrum. . 2022 Oct 31:e0249122. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.02491-22. PMID36314979.
  • Baldwin SL, Reese VA, Larsen SE, Pecor T, Brown BP, Granger B, Podell BK, Fox CB, Reed SG, Coler RN. Therapeutic efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis using ID93 and liposomal adjuvant formulations. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022:3063. PMID36090093
  • Bunjun R, Tanko RF, Jaumdally SZ, Noel-Romas L, Ayele H, Brown BP, Gamieldien H, Harryparsad R, Nair G, Onono M, Palanee-Philips T, Scoville C, Heller KB, Baeten JM, Bosinger SE, Burgener A, Passmore JS, Jaspan HB, Heffron R. Initiating intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-IM) increases frequencies of Th17-like HIV target cells in the genital tract of women in South Africa: a randomised trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022 Aug 9. PMID35941737
  • Dabee S, Tanko RF, Brown BP, Bunjun R, Balle C, Feng, C, Konstantinus I, Jaumdally SZ, Onono M, Nair G, Palanee-Phillips T, Gill K, Baeten JM, Bekker LG, Passmore JS, Heffron R, Jaspan HB, Happel A. Comparison of Female Genital Tract Cytokine and Microbiota Signatures Induced by Initiation of Intramuscular DMPA and NET-EN Hormonal Contraceptives-a Prospective Cohort Analysis. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021: 5296. PMID34956191
  • Larsen S, Berube B, Pecor T, Cross E, Brown BP, Williams B, Johnson E, Qu P, Baldwin SL, Coler RN. Qualification of ELISA and neutralization methodologies to measure SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity in human clinical samples. Journal of immunological methods 2021 Dec 1;499:113160. PMID34599915
  • Brown BP, Wendoh J, Chopera D, Havyarimana E, Jaumdally S, Nyangahu DD, Gray CM, Martin DP, Varsani A, Jaspan HB. crAssphage genomes identified in fecal samples of an adult and infants with evidence of positive genomic selective pressure within tail protein genes. Virus Res. 2020 Oct 30;198219. PMID33137401
  • Nyangahu DD, Darby M, Havyarimana E, Brown BP, Horsnell W, Jaspan HB. Preconception helminth infection alters offspring microbiota and immune subsets in a mouse model. Parasite Immunology. 2020 Apr 11:e12721. PMID32277499
  • Brown BP, Jaspan HB. Compositional analyses reveal correlations between taxon-level gut bacterial abundance and peripheral T cell marker expression in African infants. Gut microbes. 2019 Jul 28:1-8. PMID31347944
  • Brown BP, Wernegreen JJ. Genomic erosion and extensive horizontal gene transfer in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae. BMC genomics. 2019 Dec;20(1):472.PMID31182035.
  • Wood LF*, Brown BP*, Lennard K, Karaoz U, Passmore JS, Hesseling AC, Edlefson PT, Mulder N, Brodie EL, Sodora DL, Jaspan HB. Feeding related gut microbial composition associates with peripheral T cell activation and mucosal gene expression in African infants. Clin Infect Dis 2018 Sep 28;67(8):1237-1246. PMID29659737. *co-first authors.
  • Nyangahu D, Lennard KS, Brown BP, Darby MG, Wendoh JM, Havyarimana H, Smith P, Butcher J, Stintzi A, Mulder N, Horsnell W, Jaspan HB. Disruption of maternal gut microbiota during gestation alters offspring immunity. Microbiome 2018 Jul 7;6(1):124. PMID29981583. PMC6035804.
  • Ho NT, Li F, Lee-Sarwar KA, Tun HM, Brown BP, Pannaraj PS, Bender JM, Azad MB, Thompson AL, Weiss ST, Azcarate-Peril MA, Litonjua AA, Kozyrskyj AL, Jaspan HB, Aldrovandi GM, Kuhn L. Meta-analysis of effects of exclusive breastfeeding on infant gut microbiota across populations. Nat Commun 2018 Oct 9;9(1):4169. PMID30301893. PMC6177445.
  • Brown BP and Wernegreen JJ. Deep divergence and rapid evolutionary rates in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae of ants.BMC Microbiol 2016 Jul 11;16(1):140. PMID27400652. PMC4939635.
  • Brown BP, Astrop TI, Weeks SC. Post-larval developmental dynamics of the Spinicaudatan (Branchiopoda: Diplostraca) carapace. Journal of Crustacean Biology 201434 (5), 611-617.
  • Astrop, TI, Park, LE, Brown, BP, and Weeks, SC. Sexual discrimination at work: Spinicaudatan ‘Clam Shrimp’ (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) as a model organism for the study of sexual system evolution. Palaeontologia Electronica2012Vol. 15, Issue 2;20A,15p.
  • Brown BP, Brown SR and Senko JM. Microbial communities associated with wet flue gas desulfurization systems.Front Microbiol 2012 3:412. PMID23226147. PMC3510643.

Submitted Manuscripts and Cited Preprints

  • Donald D Nyangahu, Anna-Ursula Happel, Jerome Wendoh, Agano Kiravu, Colin Feng, Courtney Plumlee, Sara Cohen, Bryan P Brown, Danijel Djukovic, Tariq Ganief, Melanie Gasper, Daniel Raftery, Jonathan M Blackburn, Clive M. Gray, Jisun Paik, Kevin B Urdahl and Heather B Jaspan. Bifidobacterium infantis associates with T cell immunity in human infants and is sufficient to enhance antigen specific T cells in mice. Under review at Science Advances
  • Maust BS, Petkov S, Herrera C, Feng C, Brown BP, Lebina L, Opoka D, Ssemata A, Pillay N, Serwanga J, Seatlholo P. Bacterial Microbiome of Foreskin Tissue: Impact of Short-course PrEP and Host Inflammation. bioRxiv. 2022 Jan 1.
  • Brown BP, Wendoh J, Chopera D, Havyarimana E, Jaumdally SZ, Nyangahu DD, Gray C, Martin DP, Varsani A, Jaspan HB. crAssphage abundance and genomic selective pressure correlate with altered bacterial abundance in the fecal microbiota of South African mother-infant dyads. bioRxiv. 2019 Jan 1:582015.