Lawrence Anthony David
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Basic Science Departments 2013
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014
Contact Information
- 2171 CIEMAS Building, Box 3382, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 3382, 101 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
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lawrence.david@duke.edu
(919) 668-5388
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www.ladlab.org
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
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Duke Appointment History
- Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Basic Science Departments 2013
- Recognition
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In the News
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MAY 7, 2018 -
MAR 20, 2017 -
SEP 22, 2016 Science News -
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JUL 25, 2014 National Geographic -
MAY 13, 2014 Duke Research Blog -
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DEC 12, 2013 Fox News, LiveScience -
OCT 23, 2013
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Awards & Honors
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Duke CTSA (KL2) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Duke CTSA (TL1) awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2023
- Personalizing prebiotic therapies that target human gut microbiota awarded by National Institutes of Health 2017 - 2022
- A comprehensive research resource to define mechanisms underlying microbial regulation of host metabolism in pediatric obesity and obesity-targeted therapeutics awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2021
- Duke Training Grant in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition awarded by National Institutes of Health 1988 - 2021
- Personalizing prebiotic therapies for astronauts' gut microbiota awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2017 - 2019
- A high througput platform for screening microbial interactions awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2016 - 2019
- Using natural bacterial interactions to control host-associated microbial communities awarded by Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation 2015 - 2019
- AZD9668 and Neutrophil Elastase Inhibition to Prevent Graft-versus-Host Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2019
- Personalized Prebiotics to Optimize Microbiota Metabolism and Improve Transplant Outcomes awarded by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation 2018
- Personalizing prebiotic treatments that manipulate human gut microbiota awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2017 - 2018
- Genetic analysis in an intractable gut microbe awarded by National Institutes of Health 2016 - 2018
- Duke KURe Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2013 - 2018
- Linking oxygen and bacterial ecology in necrotizing enterocolitis awarded by Hartwell Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Quantifying Nitrogen Limitation in the Gut Microbiota awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2017
- HARDAC+:Reproducible HPC for next-generation genomics awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center 2016 - 2017
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for Dr. Lawrence David in Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2014 - 2016
- Automated Library Preparation System for Next-Generation Sequencing awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center 2014 - 2015
- Discovering natural bacterial interactions within the human gut microbiota awarded by The Global Probiotic Council 2014 - 2015
- missing activity
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Conference Papers
- Zhang, Y, Zhao, Y, David, L, Henao, R, and Carin, L. "Dynamic poisson factor analysis." January 31, 2017. Full Text
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Journal Articles
- Reese, AT, Lulow, K, David, LA, and Wright, JP. "Plant community and soil conditions individually affect soil microbial community assembly in experimental mesocosms." Ecology and Evolution 8, no. 2 (January 2018): 1196-1205. Full Text
- Silverman, JD, Washburne, AD, Mukherjee, S, and David, LA. "A phylogenetic transform enhances analysis of compositional microbiota data." eLife 6 (February 15, 2017). Full Text Open Access Copy
- Washburne, AD, Silverman, JD, Leff, JW, Bennett, DJ, Darcy, JL, Mukherjee, S, Fierer, N, and David, LA. "Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets." PeerJ 5 (January 2017): e2969-. Full Text
- Boursier, J, Mueller, O, Barret, M, Machado, M, Fizanne, L, Araujo-Perez, F, Guy, CD, Seed, PC, Rawls, JF, David, LA, Hunault, G, Oberti, F, Calès, P, and Diehl, AM. "The severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with gut dysbiosis and shift in the metabolic function of the gut microbiota." Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 63, no. 3 (March 2016): 764-775. Full Text
- Wong, S, Stephens, WZ, Burns, AR, Stagaman, K, David, LA, Bohannan, BJM, Guillemin, K, and Rawls, JF. "Ontogenetic Differences in Dietary Fat Influence Microbiota Assembly in the Zebrafish Gut." mBio 6, no. 5 (September 29, 2015): e00687-e00615. Full Text
- David, LA, Weil, A, Ryan, ET, Calderwood, SB, Harris, JB, Chowdhury, F, Begum, Y, Qadri, F, LaRocque, RC, and Turnbaugh, PJ. "Gut microbial succession follows acute secretory diarrhea in humans." mBio 6, no. 3 (May 19, 2015): e00381-e00315. Full Text
- David, LA, Materna, AC, Friedman, J, Campos-Baptista, MI, Blackburn, MC, Perrotta, A, Erdman, SE, and Alm, EJ. "Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales." Genome biology 15, no. 7 (January 2014): R89-. Full Text
- David, LA, Maurice, CF, Carmody, RN, Gootenberg, DB, Button, JE, Wolfe, BE, Ling, AV, Devlin, AS, Varma, Y, Fischbach, MA, Biddinger, SB, Dutton, RJ, and Turnbaugh, PJ. "Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome." Nature 505, no. 7484 (January 2014): 559-563. Full Text
- Szabo, G, Preheim, SP, Kauffman, KM, David, LA, Shapiro, J, Alm, EJ, and Polz, MF. "Reproducibility of Vibrionaceae population structure in coastal bacterioplankton." The ISME journal 7, no. 3 (March 2013): 509-519. Full Text
- Smillie, CS, Smith, MB, Friedman, J, Cordero, OX, David, LA, and Alm, EJ. "Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome." Nature 480, no. 7376 (October 30, 2011): 241-244. Full Text
- David, LA, and Alm, EJ. "Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion." Nature 469, no. 7328 (January 2011): 93-96. Full Text
- Preheim, SP, Boucher, Y, Wildschutte, H, David, LA, Veneziano, D, Alm, EJ, and Polz, MF. "Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates." Environmental microbiology 13, no. 1 (January 2011): 265-275. Full Text
- Shapiro, BJ, David, LA, Friedman, J, and Alm, EJ. "Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world." Trends in microbiology 17, no. 5 (May 2009): 196-204. (Review) Full Text
- Hunt, DE, David, LA, Gevers, D, Preheim, SP, Alm, EJ, and Polz, MF. "Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton." Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5879 (May 2008): 1081-1085. Full Text
- Dubin-Thaler, BJ, Hofman, JM, Cai, Y, Xenias, H, Spielman, I, Shneidman, AV, David, LA, Döbereiner, H-G, Wiggins, CH, and Sheetz, MP. "Quantification of cell edge velocities and traction forces reveals distinct motility modules during cell spreading." PloS one 3, no. 11 (January 2008): e3735-. Full Text
- David, LA, and Wiggins, CH. "Benchmarking of dynamic Bayesian networks inferred from stochastic time-series data." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1115 (December 2007): 90-101. Full Text
- Glenn, CF, Chow, DK, David, L, Cooke, CA, Gami, MS, Iser, WB, Hanselman, KB, Goldberg, IG, and Wolkow, CA. "Behavioral Deficits During Early Stages of Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans Result From Locomotory Deficits Possibly Linked to Muscle Frailty." The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 59, no. 12 (December 1, 2004): 1251-1260. Full Text
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Recent Courses
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