Christopher Gaulke

Dr. Gaulke was a postdoctoral scholar in the Sharpton lab from Sept 2014 - July 2020. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Sharpton Lab Publications

  • Sharpton, Thomas J., Combrink, Leigh, Arnold, Holly K., Gaulke, Christopher A., Kent, Michael (2020) Harnessing the gut microbiome in the fight against anthelminthic drug resistance.. Current opinion in microbiology. 53. doi: 10.1016/j.mib.2020.01.017
  • Kent, Michael L., Watral, Virginia, Gaulke, Christopher A., Sharpton, Thomas J. (2019) Further evaluation of the efficacy of emamectin benzoate for treating Pseudocapillaria tomentosa (Dujardin 1843) in zebrafish Danio rerio (Hamilton 1822).. Journal of fish diseases. 42(10). doi: 10.1111/jfd.13057
  • Gaulke, Christopher A., Martins, Mauricio L., Watral, Virginia G., Humphreys, Ian R., Spagnoli, Sean T., Kent, Michael L., Sharpton, Thomas J. (2019) A longitudinal assessment of host-microbe-parasite interactions resolves the zebrafish gut microbiome's link to Pseudocapillaria tomentosa infection and pathology.. Microbiome. 7(1). doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0622-9
  • Gaulke, Christopher A., Rolshoven, John, Wong, Carmen P., Hudson, Laurie G., Ho, Emily, Sharpton, Thomas J. (2018) Marginal Zinc Deficiency and Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Arsenic Elicit Combined Effects on the Gut Microbiome.. mSphere. 3(6). doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00521-18
  • Kent, Michael L., Gaulke, Christopher A., Watral, Virginia, Sharpton, Thomas J. (2018) Pseudocapillaria tomentosa in laboratory zebrafish Danio rerio: patterns of infection and dose response.. Diseases of aquatic organisms. 131(2). doi: 10.3354/dao03286
  • Gaulke, Christopher A., Sharpton, Thomas J. (2018) The influence of ethnicity and geography on human gut microbiome composition.. Nature medicine. 24(10). doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0210-8
  • Gaulke, Christopher A., Arnold, Holly K., Humphreys, Ian R., Kembel, Steven W., O'Dwyer, James P., Sharpton, Thomas J. (2018) Ecophylogenetics Clarifies the Evolutionary Association between Mammals and Their Gut Microbiota.. mBio. 9(5). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01348-18
  • Wilson, Alexandria K., Watral, Virginia G., Kent, Michael L., Sharpton, Thomas J., Gaulke, Christopher A. (2017) Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas sp. Strain DrBHI1 (Phylum Proteobacteria).. Genome announcements. 5(39). doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01090-17
  • Gaulke, Christopher A., Barton, Carrie L., Proffitt, Sarah, Tanguay, Robert L., Sharpton, Thomas J. (2016) Triclosan Exposure Is Associated with Rapid Restructuring of the Microbiome in Adult Zebrafish.. PloS one. 11(5). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154632
  • Sharpton, Thomas J., Gaulke, Christopher A. (2015) Modeling the Context-Dependent Associations between the Gut Microbiome, Its Environment, and Host Health.. mBio. 6(5). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01367-15