Browne lab member sin bold. For a full list of publications check out Hilary’s Google Scholar page
Selected Publications:
2026:
Developing spore-forming gut bacteria as model organisms
Trends in Microbiology
Louisa Faherty-McGrath, Douwe Van Sinderen and Hilary P Browne
Genomic atlas of Bifidobacterium infantis and B. longum informs infant probiotic design
Cell
Yan Shao, Shuyi Wang, Bonface M. Gichuki, Mark D. Stares, Timothy J. Rozday, Nitin Kumar, Hilary P. Browne, Nicholas J.R. Dawson, James M. Njunge, Caroline Tigoi, Narshion Ngao, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Benson O. Singa, Samuel Kariuki, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Ali Faisal Saleem, Syed Asad Ali, Ezekiel Mupere, Emmie Mbale, Kirkby D. Tickell, Wieger P. Voskuijl, Christina L. Lancioni, Robert H.J. Bandsma, Tahmeed Ahmed, Judd L. Walson, James A. Berkley, and Trevor D. Lawley
Nature Microbiology
Jonathan A. Chapman, Andrea C. Masi, Lauren C. Beck, Hannah Watson, Gregory R. Young, Hilary P. Browne, Yan Shao, Raymond Kiu, Andrew Nelson, Jennifer A. Doyle, Pawel Palmowski, Márton Lengyel, James P. R. Connolly, Christopher A. Lamb, Andrew Porter, Trevor D. Lawley, Lindsay J. Hall, Nicholas D. Embleton, John D. Perry, Janet E. Berrington & Christopher J. Stewart
Multiomics characterization of acute child illness and mortality in Africa and South Asia
Nature Communications
Camilo A. Espinosa, James M. Njunge, Kirkby D. Tickell, Abdoulaye Hama Diallo, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Md Amran Gazi, Zaubina Kazi, Emily Yoshioka, Caroline Tigoi, Moses Mburu, Moses Ngari, Narshion Ngao, Elisha Omer, Wilson Gumbi, Bonface M. Gichuki, Anna Mitchel, Jessica Williams, Joseph Gogain, Nebojsa Janjic, Rupasri Mandal, Benjamin Jenkins, Hilary P. Browne, Yan Shao, Timothy Rozday, On behalf of The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network
2025:
Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations
Microbial Genomics
Aline Metris, Alan W Walker, Alicia Showering, Andrea Doolan, Andrew J McBain, Antonis Ampatzoglou, Barry Murphy, Catherine O'Neill, Colette Shortt, Elizabeth M Darby, G. Aldis, Greg G Hillebrand, Helen L Brown, Hilary P Browne, Jay P Tiesman, Joy Leng, Leo Lahti, Nicholas S Jakubovics, Oliver Hasselwander, Robert D Finn, Silvia Klamert, Tamas Korcsmaros, Lindsay J Hall
2024:
Boosting microbiome science worldwide could save millions of children’s lives
Nature
Hilary P Browne, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Majdi Osman, Caroline Tigoi, Trevor D Lawley, Jeffrey I Gordon, Tahmeed Ahmed, Samuel Kariuki
Primary succession of Bifidobacteria drives pathogen resistance in neonatal microbiota assembly
Nature Microbiology
Yan Shao, Cristina Garcia-Mauriño, Simon Clare, Nicholas JR Dawson, Andre Mu, Anne Adoum, Katherine Harcourt, Junyan Liu, Hilary P Browne, Mark D Stares, Alison Rodger, Peter Brocklehurst, Nigel Field, Trevor D Lawley
2022:
Mother–infant transmission of human microbiota
Current Opinion in Microbiology
Hilary P Browne, Yan Shao, Trevor D Lawley
Cell, Host & Microbe
Benjamin S Beresford-Jones, Samuel C Forster, Mark D Stares, George Notley, Elisa Viciani, Hilary P Browne, Daniel J Boehmler, Amelia T Soderholm, Nitin Kumar, Kevin Vervier, Justin R Cross, Alexandre Almeida, Trevor D Lawley, Virginia A Pedicord
2021:
Host adaptation in gut Firmicutes is associated with sporulation loss and altered transmission cycle
Genome Biology
Hilary P Browne, Alexandre Almeida, Nitin Kumar, Kevin Vervier, Anne T Adoum, Elisa Viciani, Nicholas JR Dawson, Samuel C Forster, Claire Cormie, David Goulding, Trevor D Lawley
2019:
Adaptation of host transmission cycle during Clostridium difficile speciation
Nature Genetics
Nitin Kumar, Hilary P Browne, Elisa Viciani, Samuel C Forster, Simon Clare, Katherine Harcourt, Mark D Stares, Gordon Dougan, Derek J Fairley, Paul Roberts, Munir Pirmohamed, Martha RJ Clokie, Mie Birgitte Frid Jensen, Katherine R Hargreaves, Margaret Ip, Lothar H Wieler, Christian Seyboldt, Torbjörn Norén, Thomas V Riley, Ed J Kuijper, Brendan W Wren, Trevor D Lawley
2017:
Transmission of the gut microbiota: spreading of health
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Hilary P Browne, B Anne Neville, Samuel C Forster, Trevor D Lawley
2016:
Culturing of ‘unculturable’ human microbiota reveals novel taxa and extensive sporulation
Nature
Hilary P Browne, Samuel C Forster, Blessing O Anonye, Nitin Kumar, B Anne Neville, Mark D Stares, David Goulding, Trevor D Lawley
2014:
BMC Genomics
Laura J Pettit, Hilary P Browne, Lu Yu, Wiep Klaas Smits, Robert P Fagan, Lars Barquist, Melissa J Martin, David Goulding, Sylvia H Duncan, Harry J Flint, Gordon Dougan, Jyoti S Choudhary, Trevor D Lawley