Mahesh Desai

Latest publications

Interactions of commensal and pathogenic microorganisms with the intestinal mucosal barrier.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
August 01, 2018
2018 Aug. Nat Rev Microbiol.16(8):457-470.
By:
  • Martens EC
  • Neumann M
  • Desai MS.
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A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
  • Platform LUXGEN - Micro-Array
November 17, 2016
2016 Nov. Cell.167(5):1339-1353.e21.
By:
  • Desai MS
  • Seekatz AM
  • Koropatkin NM
  • Kamada N
  • Hickey CA
  • Wolter M
  • Pudlo NA
  • Kitamoto S
  • Terrapon N
  • Muller A
  • Young VB
  • Henrissat B
  • Wilmes P
  • Stappenbeck TS
  • Nunez G
  • Martens EC.
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A microfluidics-based in vitro model of the gastrointestinal human-microbe interface.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
  • HIV Clinical and Translational Research
May 11, 2016
2016 May. Nat Commun.7:11535.
By:
  • Shah P
  • Fritz JV
  • Glaab E
  • Desai MS
  • Greenhalgh K
  • Frachet A
  • Niegowska M
  • Estes M
  • Jager C
  • Seguin-Devaux C
  • Zenhausern F
  • Wilmes P.
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Nitrogen fixation in distinct microbial niches within a chemoautotrophy-driven cave ecosystem.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
December 01, 2013
2013 Dec. ISME J.7(12):2411-23. Epub 2013 Aug 8.
By:
  • Desai MS
  • Assig K
  • Dattagupta S.
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From meta-omics to causality: experimental models for human microbiome research.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
May 03, 2013
2013 May. Microbiome.1(1):14.
By:
  • Fritz JV
  • Desai MS
  • Shah P
  • Schneider JG
  • Wilmes P.
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Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of gut flagellates shape the nitrogen-fixing community in dry-wood termites.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
July 01, 2012
2012 Jul. ISME J.6(7):1302-13. Epub 2011 Dec 22.
By:
  • Desai MS
  • Brune A.
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Strict cospeciation of devescovinid flagellates and Bacteroidales ectosymbionts in the gut of dry-wood termites (Kalotermitidae).

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
August 01, 2010
2010 Aug. Environ Microbiol.12(8):2120-32. Epub 2009 Oct 23.
By:
  • Desai MS
  • Strassert JF
  • Meuser K
  • Hertel H
  • Ikeda-Ohtsubo W
  • Radek R
  • Brune A.
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Identification and localization of the multiple bacterial symbionts of the termite gut flagellate Joenia annectens.

  • Eco-Immunology and Microbiome
July 01, 2010
2010 Jul. Microbiology.156(Pt 7):2068-2079. Epub 2010 Apr 8.
By:
  • Strassert JFH
  • Desai MS
  • Radek R
  • Brune A.
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