Barbara Methé, PhD

  • Professor of Medicine
  • Co-director for Basic Science, Center for Microbiome and Medicine
Academic Interests

Dr. Methé's research focuses on microbial ecology and the relationship of the microbiome to lung disease.

    Education & Training

  • BS, The University at Albany
  • MS, Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1993
  • PhD, Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
Recent Publications

Tarabichi, Y, Li, K, Hu, S, Nguyen, C, Wang, X, Elashoff, D, Saira, K, Frank, B, Bihan, M, Ghedin, E, Deng, JC, Methe, BA. The administration of intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine induces changes in the nasal microbiota and nasal epithelium gene expression profiles. Microbiome. 2015; Dec 15;3(1): 74.

Strange, C, Senior, RM, Sciurba, F, O'Neal, S, Morris, A, Wisniewski, SR, Bowler, R, Hochheiser, HS, Becich, MJ, Zhang, Y, Leader, JK, Methe, BA, Kaminski, N, Sandhaus, RA. GRADS Alpha-1 Study Group. Rationale and design of the genomic research in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Sarcoidosis Study. Alpha-1 Protocol. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2015; Oct;12(10): 1551-60.

McCorrison, JM, Venepally, P, Singh, I, Fouts, DE, Lasken, RS, Methe, BA. NeatFreq: Reference-free data reduction and coverage normalization for de novo sequence assembly. BMC Bioinformatics. 2014; 15: 357.

Alekseyenko, AV, Perez-Perez, GI, De Souza, A, Strober, B, Gao, Z, Bihan, M, Li, K, Methe, BA, Blaser, MJ. Community differentiation of the cutaneous microbiota in psoriasis. Microbiome. 2013; Dec 23;1(1): 31.

Methe, BA, Lasa, I. Microbiology in the 'omics era: from the study of single cells to communities and beyond. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2013; Oct;16(5): 602-4.

Li, K, Bihan, M, Methe, BA. Analyses of the stability and core taxonomic memberships of the human microbiome. PLoS One. 2013; May 6;8(5): e63139.

Conlon, EM, Postier, BL, Methe, BA, Nevin, KP, Lovely, DR. A Bayesian model for pooling gene expression studies that incorporates co-regulation information. PLoS One. 2012; 7(12): e52137.