Brantley Hall

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Brantley Hall

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics Assistant Professor
brantley@umd.edu 3126 Bioscience Research Bldg.
301 405 7481

Graduate Program Affiliations


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

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Latest Papers

Draft genome sequence of a family Acutalibacteraceae isolate, a human gut-derived cholesterol metabolizer

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| Science
Author(s): Xiaofang Jiang, A. Brantley Hall, Timothy D. Arthur, et. al
UMD Author(s): Brantley Hall, Xiaofang Jiang