Sophia Levy

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Sophia Levy

Ph.D. Student

Advisor(s)

Brantley Hall

BISI Concentration Areas

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Latest Papers

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


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


Bilirubin Reductase Shows Host-Specific Associations in Animal Large Intestines


Author(s): Xiaofang Jiang, Keith Dufault-Thompson, Sophia Levy, et. al
UMD Author(s): Xiaofang Jiang, 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