Silvia Grant-Beurmann, Ph.D.

Senior Microbiome Scientist

Cary, North Carolina, United States of America

Research Expertise

Gut-brain-axis

Microbiome

'omics Analysis

Bioinformatics

Project Management

Clinical Trial Design, Management, and Analysis

About

As a senior scientist, I have over a decade of experience in microbiological research and project management focusing on the structure and function of the microbiome in health and disease in humans, primates, rodents, and invertebrates. My strengths lie in the design, execution, and analysis of large ‘omics datasets, for which I have been recognized for performance excellence and contributions to high-impact publications and IP generation. I have worked with and led diverse teams of researchers to complete complex research projects, which have influenced experimental processes and met both company or collaborator’s goals globally.

Publications

Origin Sample Prediction and Spatial Modeling of Antimicrobial Resistance in Metagenomic Sequencing Data

Frontiers in Genetics

2021

First Record of Black Band Disease in the Hawaiian Archipelago: Response, Outbreak Status, Virulence, and a Method of Treatment

PLOS ONE

2015

Mutation of the toxR or mshA genes from Vibrio coralliilyticus strain OCN014 reduces infection of the coral Acropora cytherea

Environmental Microbiology

2016

Ghrelin receptor deletion reduces binge‐like alcohol drinking in rats

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

2019

Pseudoalteromonas piratica strain OCN003 is a coral pathogen that causes a switch from chronic to acute Montipora white syndrome in Montipora capitata

PLOS ONE

2017

Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 Protects against Antibiotic-Induced Functional and Compositional Changes in Human Fecal Microbiome

Nutrients

2021

Pseudoalteromonas piratica sp. nov., a budding, prosthecate bacterium from diseased Montipora capitata, and emended description of the genus Pseudoalteromonas

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

2017

Dynamics of the infant gut microbiota in the first 18 months of life: the impact of maternal HIV infection and breastfeeding

Microbiome

2022

Gut microbiome and metabolome in a non-human primate model of chronic excessive alcohol drinking

Translational Psychiatry

2021

Dynamics of acute Montipora white syndrome: bacterial communities of healthy and diseased M. capitata colonies during and after a disease outbreak

Microbiology

2018

Changes in the Gut Microbiota Following Bariatric Surgery Are Associated with Increased Alcohol Intake in a Female Rat Model

Alcohol and Alcoholism

2021

Phenotypic Assessment Suggests Multiple Start Codons for HetN, an Inhibitor of Heterocyst Differentiation, in Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

2018

Complete Genome Sequence of Pseudoalteromonas sp. Strain OCN003, Isolated from Kāne’ohe Bay, O’ahu, Hawaii

Genome Announcements

2015

Prebiotic Treatment Increases Serum Butyrate in People With Schizophrenia

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

2021

Assessment of disease lesion removal as a method to control chronic Montipora white syndrome

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

2017

Vibrio tetraodonis subsp. pristinus subsp. nov., isolated from the coral Acropora cytherea at Palmyra Atoll, and creation and emended description of Vibrio tetraodonis subsp. tetraodonis subsp. nov

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

2022

A Longitudinal Metagenomic Comparative Analysis of Oral Microbiome Shifts in Patients Receiving Proton Radiation Versus Photon Radiation for Head and Neck Cancer

Journal of Cancer & Allied Specialties

2023

Hypobaria Exposure Worsens Cardiac Function and Endothelial Injury in AN Animal Model of Polytrauma: Implications for Aeromedical Evacuation

Shock

2020

Education

University of Zurich

B.S., Biology / June, 2010

Zurich

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ph.D., Microbiology / May, 2017

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Experience

Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Laboratory Research Manager / June, 2017 — April, 2022

Bioinformatics Analyst / April, 2022 — Present

National Institutes of Health

Microbiome Consultant / April, 2022 — August, 2022

Metabolon, Inc.

Senior Microbiome Scientist / April, 2022 — Present

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