Selected Publications

Brennan, C., Chan, K., Kumar, T., Maissy, E., Brubaker, L., Dothard, M., Gilbert, J., Gilbert, K., Lewis, A.L., Thackray, V.G., Zarrinpar, A., and Knight, R. (2024) Harnessing the Power Within: Engineering the Microbiome for Enhanced Gynecologic Health. Reproduction and Fertility 5(2):e230060. doi: 10.1530/RAF-23-0060

Sisk-Hackworth, L., Brown, J., Sau, L., Levine, A.A., Tam, L., Ramesh, A., Shah, R.S., Kelley-Thackray, E.T., Wang, S., Nguyen A., Kelley, S.T. and Thackray, V.G (2023) Genetic Hypogonadal Mouse Model Reveals Niche-Specific Influence of Reproductive Axis and Sex on Intestinal Microbial Communities. Biology of Sex Differences 14(1):79. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-023-00564-1

Chen, A., Handzel A., Sau, L., Cui, L, Kelley, S.T, and Thackray, V.G. (2023) Hyperandrogenism in Female Mice Linked with Metabolic Dysregulation and Gut Dysbiosis. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Special Issue: The Microbiome: Intersections with the Endocrine and Metabolism. https://doi.org/10.1002/edm2.443

Rastegar K., Kelley S.T., and Thackray, V.G. (2023) Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Murine Fecal Microbiomes Dominated by Uncharacterized Bacteria Microbiol Resour Announc. 16;12(3):e0116222. doi: 10.1128/mra.01162-22.

Sisk-Hackworth, L, Kelley, S.T., and Thackray, V.G. (2023) Sex, Puberty and the Gut Microbiome. Reproduction 165(2):R61-R74.

Ho, B.S., Ryback, D., Benson, B., Mason, C.N., Torres, P.J., Quinn, R.A., Thackray, V.G., and Kelley, S.T. (2021) Gut Metabolites are More Predictive of Disease- and Cohoused- States than Gut Bacterial Features in a Polycystic Ovary Syndrome-Like Mouse Model MSystems 6(5)e0114920.

Rizk, M. and Thackray, V.G. (2021) Intersection of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with the Gut Microbiome. Journal of the Endocrine Society 5(2):1-16.

Sau, L., Olmstead, C.M., Cui, L.J., Chen, A., Shah, R., Kelley, S.T., Thackray, V.G. (2021) Alterations in Gut Microbiota Do Not Play a Causal Role in Diet-Independent Weight Gain Caused by Ovariectomy. Journal of the Endocrine Society 5(1):1-11.

Esparza, L.A., Schafer, D., Ho, B.S., Thackray, V.G. and Kauffman, A.S. (2020) Hyperactive LH Pulses and Elevated Kisspeptin and NKB Gene Expression in the Arcuate Nucleus of a PCOS Mouse Model. Endocrinology 2020 161(4).

Arroyo, P., Ho, B.S., Sau, L., Kelley, S.T., and Thackray, V.G. (2019) Letrozole Treatment of Pubertal Mice Results in Activational Effects on Reproduction, Metabolism and the Gut Microbiome. PLOS ONE 14(9):e0223274.

Torres, P.J., Skarra, D.V., Ho, B.S., Sau, L., Anvar, A.R., Kelley, S.T., and Thackray, V.G. (2019) Letrozole Treatment of Adult Female Mice Results in a Distinct Metabolic Phenotype and Changes in the Gut Microbiome. BMC Microbiology 19(1):57 doi: 10.1186/s12866-019-1425-7

Torres, P.J., Ho, B.S., Arroyo, P., Sau, L., Chen, A., Kelley, S.T., and Thackray, V.G. (2019) Exposure to a Healthy Gut Microbiome Improves Reproductive and Metabolic Phenotypes in a Mouse Model of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Endocrinology 160(5), 1193-1204

de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, J., Kelley, S.T., Chen, Y., Escobar, J.S., Mueller, N.T., Ley, R.E., McDonald, D., Huang, S., Swafford, A., Knight, R., and Thackray, V.G. (2019) Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults. MSystems 14;4(4). pii: e00261-19 doi: 10.1128/mSystems.00261-1

Thackray, V.G. (2019) Sex, Microbes and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 30(1):54-65.

McDonald, D., Hyde E., Debelius, J . . .Thackray V.G. . . and Knight, R. (2018) American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen-Science Microbiome Research. mSystems 3(3):e00031-18.

Torres, P.J., Siakowska, M., Banaszewska, B., Pawelczyk, L., Duleba, A.J., Kelley, S.T. and Thackray V.G. (2018) Gut Microbial Diversity in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Correlates with Hyperandrogenism. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 103(4):1502-1511.

Skarra D.V., Hernandez-Carretero, A., Rivera, A.J., Anvar, A.R. and Thackray V.G. (2017) Hyperandrogenemia Induced by Letrozole Treatment of Pubertal Female Mice Results in Hyperinsulinemia Prior to Weight Gain and Insulin Resistance. Endocrinology 158(9):2988-3003.

Kelley, S.T., Skarra D.V., Rivera, A.J., and Thackray V.G. (2016) The Gut Microbiome Is Altered in a Letrozole-Induced Mouse Model of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. PLOS ONE 11(1):e0146509.

Kauffman, A.S., Thackray V.G., Ryan, G.E., Tolson, K.P., Glidewell-Kenney, C.A., Semaan, S.J., Poling, M.C., Iwata, N., Breen., K.M., Duleba, A.J., Stener-Victorin, E., Shimasaki, S., Webster, N.J., and Mellon (2015) A Novel Letrozole Model Recapitulates Both the Reproductive and Metabolic Phenotypes of Polycytic Ovary Syndrome in Female Mice. Biology of Reproduction 93(3):69, 1-12.