Laura Weyrich
Associate Professor of Anthropology

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518 Carpenter
University Park, PA - lsw132@psu.edu
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Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Dna Microbiota Ecosystem Biomass Temperature Dental Calculus Ancient Dna Sampling Human Health Health Diet Ecosystems Gastrointestinal Microbiome Climate Contamination Analysis Fish Holocene Anomaly Insects Fire Food Fires Environment Climate ChangeMost Recent Papers
Moving beyond the gut microbiome: Combining systems biology and multi-site microbiome analyses to combat non-communicable diseases
Caitlin A. Selway, Jaya Sudarpa, Laura S. Weyrich, 2022, Medicine in Microecology
The Oral-Microbiome-Brain Axis and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Grace B. Bowland, Laura S. Weyrich, 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
Corrigendum to “Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands” [Sci. Total Environ. 802 (2021)149542](S0048969721046167)(10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149542)
Zoë A. Thomas, Scott Mooney, Haidee Cadd, Andy Baker, Chris Turney, Larissa Schneider, Alan Hogg, Simon Haberle, Ken Green, Laura S. Weyrich, Vilma Perez, Nicole E. Moore, Atun Zawadzki, Sarah J. Kelloway, Stuart J. Khan, 2022, Science of the Total Environment
Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands
Zoë A. Thomas, Scott Mooney, Haidee Cadd, Andy Baker, Chris Turney, Larissa Schneider, Alan Hogg, Simon Haberle, Ken Green, Laura S. Weyrich, Vilma Pérez, Nicole E. Moore, Atun Zawadzki, Sarah J. Kelloway, Stuart J. Khan, 2022, Science of the Total Environment
The Neglected Gut Microbiome: Fungi, Protozoa, and Bacteriophages in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Gina Guzzo, Jane Andrews, Laura Weyrich, 2022, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
How microbiomes can help inform conservation: landscape characterisation of gut microbiota helps shed light on additional population structure in a specialist folivore
BL Littleford-Colquhoun, LS Weyrich, K Hohwieler, R Cristescu, Fr\`ere, CH, 2022, Animal microbiome on p. 1--15
Rare genera differentiate urban green space soil bacterial communities in three cities across the world
Jacob Mills, Caitlin Selway, Laura Weyrich, Chris Skelly, Philip Weinstein, Torsten Thomas, Jennifer Young, Emma Marczylo, Sudesh Yadav, Vijay Yadav, others, 2022, Access Microbiology on p. 000320
Neanderthals did not likely consume Physcomitrium patens--a model moss species
Fabian Haas, Raphael Eisenhofer, Mona Schreiber, Laura Weyrich, Stefan Rensing, 2022, bioRxiv
Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul
Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Kasih Norman, Sean Ulm, Alan N. Williams, Chris Clarkson, Joël Chadœuf, Sam C. Lin, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Michael I. Bird, Laura S. Weyrich, Simon G. Haberle, Sue O’Connor, Bastien Llamas, Tim J. Cohen, Tobias Friedrich, Peter Veth, Matthew Leavesley, Frédérik Saltré, 2021, Nature Communications
Effectiveness of decontamination protocols when analyzing ancient DNA preserved in dental calculus
Andrew G. Farrer, Sterling L. Wright, Emily Skelly, Raphael Eisenhofer, Keith Dobney, Laura S. Weyrich, 2021, Scientific Reports
Most-Cited Papers
Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions
Christina J. Adler, Keith Dobney, Laura S. Weyrich, John Kaidonis, Alan W. Walker, Wolfgang Haak, Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Grant Townsend, Arkadiusz Sołtysiak, Kurt W. Alt, Julian Parkhill, Alan Cooper, 2013, Nature Genetics on p. 450-455
Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies
Raphael Eisenhofer, Jeremiah J. Minich, Clarisse Marotz, Alan Cooper, Rob Knight, Laura S. Weyrich, 2019, Trends in Microbiology on p. 105-117
Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus
Laura S. Weyrich, Sebastian Duchene, Julien Soubrier, Luis Arriola, Bastien Llamas, James Breen, Alan G. Morris, Kurt W. Alt, David Caramelli, Veit Dresely, Milly Farrell, Andrew G. Farrer, Michael Francken, Neville Gully, Wolfgang Haak, Karen Hardy, Katerina Harvati, Petra Held, Edward C. Holmes, John Kaidonis, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Marco De La Rasilla, Antonio Rosas, Patrick Semal, Arkadiusz Soltysiak, Grant Townsend, Donatella Usai, Joachim Wahl, Daniel H. Huson, Keith Dobney, Alan Cooper, 2017, Nature on p. 357-361
Environmental metabarcodes for insects
Laurence J. Clarke, Julien Soubrier, Laura Weyrich, Alan Cooper, 2014, Molecular Ecology Notes on p. 1160-1170
Comparison of environmental DNA metabarcoding and conventional fish survey methods in a river system
Jennifer L.A. Shaw, Laurence J. Clarke, Scotte D. Wedderburn, Thomas C. Barnes, Laura S. Weyrich, Alan Cooper, 2016, Biological Conservation on p. 131-138
Ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus
Laura Weyrich, Keith Dobney, Alan Cooper, 2015, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 119-124
From the field to the laboratory
Bastien Llamas, Guido Valverde, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Laura S. Weyrich, Alan Cooper, Wolfgang Haak, 2017, Science and Technology of Archaeological Research on p. 1-14
Embracing the gut microbiota: The new frontier for inflammatory and infectious diseases
Lieke W.J. Van Den Elsen, Hazel C. Poyntz, Laura S. Weyrich, Wayne Young, Elizabeth E. Forbes-Blom, 2017, Clinical and Translational Immunology
Laboratory contamination over time during low-biomass sample analysis
Laura S. Weyrich, Andrew G. Farrer, Raphael Eisenhofer, Luis A. Arriola, Jennifer Young, Caitlin A. Selway, Matilda Handsley-Davis, Christina J. Adler, James Breen, Alan Cooper, 2019, Molecular Ecology Notes on p. 982-996
Urban habitat restoration provides a human health benefit through microbiome rewilding: The Microbiome Rewilding Hypothesis
Jacob G. Mills, Philip Weinstein, Nicholas J.C. Gellie, Laura S. Weyrich, Andrew J. Lowe, Martin F. Breed, 2017, Restoration Ecology on p. 866-872
News Articles Featuring Laura Weyrich
Mar 25, 2021
Ancient oral biome points to overall health
When a baby puts something from the floor in their mouth, we panic, but the mouth already contains thousands of bacteria. Now a team of researchers is looking at archaeological remains for an example of how Japanese oral biomes have changed and what they say about the people who owned those mouths and teeth.
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Sep 24, 2020
Penn State Microbiome Center elects new executive committee
The Penn State Microbiome Center in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences recently elected six new members to join its executive committee. The new members, along with 11 others who remained on the committee, started their two-year term in July.
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