Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Laura Weyrich

Publication Tags

Dna Health Water Sampling Diet Dental Calculus Biodiversity Genes Biomass Drinking Water Food Ecosystem Monitoring Microbiota Proteins Analysis Ancient Dna Infection Gastrointestinal Microbiome Bordetella Bronchiseptica Human Migration Soil Insects Fish Ships

Most Recent Papers

Toolbox for the sampling and monitoring of benthic cyanobacteria

Virginie Gaget, Peter Hobson, Angela Keulen, Kelly Newton, Paul Monis, Andrew R. Humpage, Laura S. Weyrich, Justin D. Brookes, 2020, Water Research

Naturally-diverse airborne environmental microbial exposures modulate the gut microbiome and may provide anxiolytic benefits in mice

Craig Liddicoat, Harrison Sydnor, Christian Cando-Dumancela, Romy Dresken, Jiajun Liu, Nicholas J.C. Gellie, Jacob G. Mills, Jennifer M. Young, Laura S. Weyrich, Mark R. Hutchinson, Philip Weinstein, Martin F. Breed, 2020, Science of the Total Environment

City life alters the gut microbiome and stable isotope profiling of the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)

Bethan L. Littleford-Colquhoun, Laura S. Weyrich, Nicola Kent, Celine H. Frere, 2019, Molecular ecology on p. 4592-4607

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 Resources on p. 982-996

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul

Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Sean Ulm, Alan N. Williams, Michael I. Bird, Richard G. Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Fiona Laviano, Laura S. Weyrich, Tobias Friedrich, Kasih Norman, Frédérik Saltré, 2019, Nature Ecology and Evolution on p. 1057-1063

Retrospective eDNA assessment of potentially harmful algae in historical ship ballast tank and marine port sediments

Jennifer L.A. Shaw, Laura Weyrich, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Alan Cooper, 2019, Molecular ecology on p. 2476-2485

Ancient Microbial DNA in Dental Calculus

Raphael Eisenhofer, Atholl Anderson, Keith Dobney, Alan Cooper, Laura S. Weyrich, 2019, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology on p. 149-162

Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA

Raphael Eisenhofer, Laura Susan Weyrich, 2019, PeerJ

Genetic regulation of antibody responsiveness to immunization in substrains of BALB/c mice

Hazel C. Poyntz, Angela Jones, Ruy Jauregui, Wayne Young, Aurélie Gestin, Anna Mooney, Olivier Lamiable, Eric Altermann, Alfonso Schmidt, Olivier Gasser, Laura Weyrich, Christopher J. Jolly, Michelle A. Linterman, Graham Le Gros, Edwin D. Hawkins, Elizabeth Forbes-Blom, 2019, Immunology and Cell Biology on p. 39-53

Consequences of colonialism

Emily Skelly, Kostas Kapellas, Alan Cooper, Laura S. Weyrich, 2018, American Journal of Physical Anthropology on p. 423-437

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 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

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 Resources 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

Embracing the gut microbiota

Lieke W.J. Van Den Elsen, Hazel C. Poyntz, Laura S. Weyrich, Wayne Young, Elizabeth E. Forbes-Blom, 2017, Clinical and Translational Immunology

Forensic soil DNA analysis using high-throughput sequencing

Jennifer M. Young, Laura Weyrich, Alan Cooper, 2014, Forensic Science International: Genetics on p. 176-184

Using amplicon sequencing to characterize and monitor bacterial diversity in drinking water distribution systems

Jennifer L.A. Shaw, Paul Monis, Laura S. Weyrich, Emma Sawade, Mary Drikas, Alan J. Cooper, 2015, Applied and environmental microbiology on p. 6463-6473

A Type VI Secretion System Encoding Locus Is Required for Bordetella bronchiseptica Immunomodulation and Persistence In Vivo

Laura S. Weyrich, Olivier Y. Rolin, Sarah J. Muse, Jihye Park, Nicholas Spidale, Mary J. Kennett, Sara E. Hester, Chun Chen, Edward G. Dudley, Eric T. Harvill, 2012, PloS one

The microbiome of otitis media with effusion in Indigenous Australian children

Jake Jervis-Bardy, Geraint B. Rogers, Peter S. Morris, Heidi C. Smith-Vaughan, Elizabeth Nosworthy, Lex E.X. Leong, Renee J. Smith, Laura Weyrich, Jacques De Haan, A. Simon Carney, Amanda J. Leach, Stephen O'Leary, Robyn L. Marsh, 2015, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology on p. 1548-1555