For a full list of publications check out Hilary’s Google Scholar page
Selected Publications:
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, Gary 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
Pre-Print
Yan Shao, Shuyi Wang, Bonface Gichuki, Mark D Stares, Tim Rozday, Nitin Kumar, Hilary P Browne, Nicholas JR 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 Voskuijl, Christina Lancioni, Robert Bandsma, Tahmeed Ahmed, Judd L Walson, James A Berkley, Trevor D Lawley
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