Seth Bordenstein
Director of the Microbiome Center; Huck Chair in Microbiome Sciences; Professor of Biology and Entomology

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W251 Millennium Science Complex
University Park, PA - srb6251@psu.edu
Research Summary
The evolutionary and genetic principles that shape symbiotic interactions between animals, microbes, and viruses and the major applications of these interactions to human health.
Huck Affiliations
- One Health Microbiome Center
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
- Bioinformatics and Genomics
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Microbiota Genome Wolbachia Animals Gastrointestinal Microbiome Microbiome Genomics Genes Symbiosis Microorganisms Proteins Biological Sciences Viruses Glucose Wasps Nasonia Drosophila Melanogaster Nationalities And Ethnic Groups Fibrosis Spermatozoa Metabolic Molecular Cluster Intestinal Microorganisms Protein Cytoplasmic IncompatibilityMost Recent Publications
Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age
Elizabeth K. Mallott, Alexandra R. Sitarik, Leslie D. Leve, Camille Cioffi, Carlos A. Camargo, Kohei Hasegawa, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2023, PLoS Biology
Low Gut Microbial Diversity Augments Estrogen-Driven Pulmonary Fibrosis in Female-Predominant Interstitial Lung Disease
Ozioma S. Chioma, Elizabeth Mallott, Binal Shah-Gandhi, Za Darreyal Wiggins, Madison Langford, Andrew William Lancaster, Alexander Gelbard, Hongmei Wu, Joyce E. Johnson, Lisa Lancaster, Erin M. Wilfong, Leslie J. Crofford, Courtney G. Montgomery, Luc Van Kaer, Seth Bordenstein, Dawn C. Newcomb, Wonder Puryear Drake, 2023, Cells
Gut microbiota modulates lung fibrosis severity following acute lung injury in mice
Ozioma S. Chioma, Elizabeth K. Mallott, Austin Chapman, Joseph C. Van Amburg, Hongmei Wu, Binal Shah-Gandhi, Nandita Dey, Marina E. Kirkland, M. Blanca Piazuelo, Joyce Johnson, Gordon R. Bernard, Sobha R. Bodduluri, Steven Davison, Bodduluri Haribabu, Seth R. Bordenstein, Wonder P. Drake, 2022, Communications Biology
Transgenic cytoplasmic incompatibility persists across age and temperature variation in Drosophila melanogaster
Isabella T. Ritchie, Kelly T. Needles, Brittany A. Leigh, Rupinder Kaur, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, iScience
Individuality and ethnicity eclipse a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viromes
Junhui Li, Robert H.George Markowitz, Andrew W. Brooks, Elizabeth K. Mallott, Brittany A. Leigh, Timothy Olszewski, Hamid Zare, Minoo Bagheri, Holly M. Smith, Katie A. Friese, Ismail Habibi, William M. Lawrence, Charlie L. Rost, Ákos Lédeczi, Angela M. Eeds, Jane F. Ferguson, Heidi J. Silver, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, PLoS Biology
Microbiome-associated human genetic variants impact phenome-wide disease risk
Robert H.George Markowitz, Abigail Leavitt LaBella, Mingjian Shi, Antonis Rokas, John A. Capra, Jane F. Ferguson, Jonathan D. Mosley, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
A Margulian View of Symbiosis and Speciation: the Nasonia Wasp System
Kara Bell, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, Symbiosis on p. 3-10
The Cif proteins from Wolbachia prophage WO modify sperm genome integrity to establish cytoplasmic incompatibility
Rupinder Kaur, Brittany A. Leigh, Isabella T. Ritchie, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, PLoS Biology
Comparison of qPCR and dPCR methods for the quantification of Wolbachia densities and arthropod gene expression.
K.L. Cross, Seth Bordenstein, 2022, Qiagen Application Note
Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae
Sarah Bordenstein, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2022, PLoS Genetics on p. e1010227
Most-Cited Papers
Host biology in light of the microbiome: Ten principles of holobionts and hologenomes
Seth R. Bordenstein, Kevin R. Theis, 2015, PLoS Biology
Mom Knows Best: The Universality of Maternal Microbial Transmission
Lisa J. Funkhouser, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2013, PLoS Biology
Getting the hologenome concept right: An eco-evolutionary framework for hosts and their microbiomes
Kevin R. Theis, Nolwenn M. Dheilly, Jonathan L. Klassen, Robert M. Brucker, John F. Baines, Thomas C.G. Bosch, John F. Cryan, Scott F. Gilbert, Charles J. Goodnight, Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Jan Sapp, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, Eugene Rosenberg, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2016, mSystems
Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History
Andrew W. Brooks, Kevin D. Kohl, Robert M. Brucker, Edward J. van Opstal, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2016, PLoS Biology
The hologenomic basis of speciation: Gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia
Robert Brucker, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2013, Science on p. 667-669
Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility
Daniel LePage, Daniel P. Le Page, Jason Metcalf, Sarah Bordenstein, Jungmin On, Jessamyn Perlmutter, J Shropshire, Emily Layton, Lisa Funkhouser-Jones, John Beckmann, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2017, Nature on p. 243--247
Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)
Simon Roux, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Bas E. Dutilh, Eugene V. Koonin, Andrew M. Kropinski, Mart Krupovic, Jens H. Kuhn, Rob Lavigne, J. Rodney Brister, Arvind Varsani, Clara Amid, Ramy K. Aziz, Seth R. Bordenstein, Peer Bork, Mya Breitbart, Guy R. Cochrane, Rebecca A. Daly, Christelle Desnues, Melissa B. Duhaime, Joanne B. Emerson, François Enault, Jed A. Fuhrman, Pascal Hingamp, Philip Hugenholtz, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Natalia N. Ivanova, Jessica M. Labonté, Kyung Bum Lee, Rex R. Malmstrom, Manuel Martinez-Garcia, Ilene Karsch Mizrachi, Hiroyuki Ogata, David Páez-Espino, Marie Agnès Petit, Catherine Putonti, Thomas Rattei, Alejandro Reyes, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Karyna Rosario, Lynn Schriml, Frederik Schulz, Grieg F. Steward, Matthew B. Sullivan, Shinichi Sunagawa, Curtis A. Suttle, Ben Temperton, Susannah G. Tringe, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Nicole S. Webster, Katrine L. Whiteson, Steven W. Wilhelm, K. Eric Wommack, Tanja Woyke, Kelly C. Wrighton, Pelin Yilmaz, Takashi Yoshida, Mark J. Young, Natalya Yutin, Lisa Zeigler Allen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, 2019, Nature Biotechnology on p. 29-37
Microbiota and the social brain
Eoin Sherwin, Seth R. Bordenstein, John L. Quinn, Timothy G. Dinan, John F. Cryan, 2019, Science
Gut microbiota diversity across ethnicities in the United States
Andrew W. Brooks, Sambhawa Priya, Ran Blekhman, Seth R. Bordenstein, 2018, PLoS Biology
Bile diversion to the distal small intestine has comparable metabolic benefits to bariatric surgery
Charles Robb Flynn, Vance L. Albaugh, Steven Cai, Joyce Cheung-Flynn, Phillip E. Williams, Robert M. Brucker, Seth R. Bordenstein, Yan Guo, David H. Wasserman, Naji N. Abumrad, 2015, Nature Communications
News Articles Featuring Seth Bordenstein
Sep 07, 2023
One Health Microbiome Center honors creativity and mentoring with award series
The One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC) below has named eight recipients for its 2023-24 Inaugural Award Series.
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Aug 22, 2023
One Health Microbiome Center's 2023-24 Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellows
The One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC) in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has named five recipients for its 2023-24 Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowships (IIF) program.
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Aug 17, 2023
Gut bacteria variation among human social groups emerges by three months of age
Bacteria and other microorganisms that live within the human digestive tract — the gut microbiome — differ with parent-reported race and ethnicity as early as 3 months of age, according to a new study co-led by Penn State.
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Aug 02, 2023
Penn State faculty member elected to plant pathology society leadership
Carolee Bull, professor of systematic bacteriology and plant pathology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been elected to the presidential lineage of the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
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May 15, 2023
Penn State's renamed One Health Microbiome Center affirms broad expertise
The Microbiome Center in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has announced its renaming to the One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC), the first center in the world to integrate "One Health" with the microbiome sciences.
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Mar 27, 2023
Geography Coffee Hour talk to explore microorganisms and their impact on life
Microbes may be tiny, but they play a big role in shaping the world. Seth Bordenstein, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Endowed Chair in Microbiome Sciences and professor of biology and entomology at Penn State, will offer insights into his research on microbiomes and their impact on the world in his talk, “Why We Look Down (To the Microbes) For Wonder, Impact and Discovery,” on March 31.
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Mar 07, 2023
Habitat split may impact disease risk in amphibians and other vertebrates
Habitat split is a common event in the environment that occurs when different classes of natural habitats, such as forests and water, are disconnected.
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Feb 27, 2023
New predictive models developed for bacterial diversity of soils
A new set of quantitative models that incorporates pH into the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) has been developed by an international team that includes Penn State assistant professor of plant science Francisco Dini-Andreote.
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Feb 15, 2023
Free film and panel discussion reveals 'invisible' crisis of the microbial world
At 6 p.m. Thursday, March 2, Penn State’s Microbiome Center will present "The Invisible Extinction" — a movie that spotlights the trailblazing work and charismatic personalities of renowned scientists who aim to save the vanishing microbes that are essential for our survival.
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Dec 22, 2022
2022 Top 10 Most Popular Microbiome Center News Articles
The stories that made the year in 2022 for the Penn State Microbiome Center
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