Brantley Hall
Brantley Hall
Graduate Program Affiliations
- Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
- Biological Sciences (BISI): Molecular and Cell Biology (MOCB)
Research Interests
The Hall lab studies the human gut microbiome with the goal of identifying the bacterial genes underlying health-relevant functions of the gut microbiome.
Education
- Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2016. Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Postdoctoral Training, 2016-20, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
All Publications
BISI Concentration Areas
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and GenomicsMolecular and Cellular Biology
Latest Papers
Draft genome sequence of a family Acutalibacteraceae isolate, a human gut-derived cholesterol metabolizer
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Microbiology Resource Announcements
Author(s): Stephen Skolnick, Brantley Hall, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall
Identification of gut bacteria reductases that biotransform steroid hormones
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Nature Communications
Author(s): Gabriela Arp, Angela K. Jiang, Keith Dufault-Thompson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Angela Jiang, Gabriela Arp, Xiaofang Jiang, Maggie Grant, Sophia Levy
Gut microbial utilization of the alternative sweetener, D-allulose, via AlsE
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Communications Biology
Author(s): Glory Minabou Ndjite, Angela K. Jiang, Charlotte T. Ravel, et. al
UMD Author(s): Angela Jiang, Brantley Hall
Linking bacterial androgen production and prostate cancer
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Nature Microbiology
Author(s): Gabriela Arp, Sophia Levy, Brantley Hall
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Gabriela Arp, Sophia Levy
Convergent evolution of oxidized sugar metabolism in commensal and pathogenic microbes in the inflamed gut
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Nature Communications
Author(s): Sophia Levy, Angela K. Jiang, Maggie R. Grant, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Angela Jiang, Gabriela Arp, Xiaofang Jiang, Maggie Grant, Sophia Levy
BilR is a gut microbial enzyme that reduces bilirubin to urobilinogen
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Nature Microbiology
Author(s): Brantley Hall, Sophia Levy, Keith Dufault-Thompson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Gabriela Arp, Sophia Levy, Maggie Grant
Bacteroidales species in the human gut are a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes regulated by invertible promoters
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npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Author(s): Wei Yan, A. Brantley Hall, Xiaofang Jiang
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Xiaofang Jiang
The capacity to produce hydrogen sulfide (H2S) via cysteine degradation is ubiquitous in the human gut microbiome
Author(s): Domenick J. Braccia, Xiaofang Jiang, Mihai Pop, et. al
UMD Author(s): Xiaofang Jiang, Brantley Hall, Mihai Pop
Maleness-on-the-Y ( MoY ) orchestrates male sex determination in major agricultural fruit fly pests
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Science
Author(s): Angela Meccariello, Marco Salvemini, Pasquale Primo, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall
Invertible promoters mediate bacterial phase variation, antibiotic resistance, and host adaptation in the gut
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Science
Author(s): Xiaofang Jiang, A. Brantley Hall, Timothy D. Arthur, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Xiaofang Jiang



