Rob Knight

UC San Diego Health System

Full Professor(heuristic)

Gut microbiota and health · Molecular Biology

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Publications1,784

Citations472,055

Grants

33 total · 12 active

NIH #5U19AG063744-05

Alzheimer's Gut Microbiome Project

Expiring Soon

Amount: $7.7M
Period: 2019-09-15 → 2026-08-31
PIs: 3
Est. capacity / PI: ~0 students

Awarded at DUKE UNIVERSITY

NIH #1R01AI192662-01

Skin microbes and development of allergic disease

Active

Amount: $5.2M
Period: 2025-09-05 → 2029-08-31
PIs: 3
Est. capacity / PI: ~22 students

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

NIH #5R01CA241728-07

Bacterial biosensors for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers

Active

Amount: $511K
Period: 2020-05-18 → 2029-04-30
PIs: 2
Est. capacity / PI: ~1 students

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Student capacity is a rough estimate from remaining award size, split equally among PIs. Actual funding decisions vary.

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In-Field Influence

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Admission Signals

New paper: Circulating lipids are related to longitudinal changes of ATN biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (Molecular Psychiatry)2026-06-16
New preprint: Antibiotic resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans are highly susceptible to bacteriophages and often are killed synergistically by phage/antibiotic combinations2026-04-30
New NIH award: $5,177K — Skin microbes and development of allergic disease2025-09-05
New NIH award: $3,314K — The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center2021-12-23
New NIH award: $3,324K — The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center2021-12-23
New NIH award: $3,325K — The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center2021-12-23
New NIH award: $3,324K — The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center2021-12-23
New NIH award: $550K — The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center2021-12-23
New NIH award: $511K — Bacterial biosensors for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers2020-05-18
New NIH award: $120K — Bacterial biosensors for the prevention of gastrointestinal cancers2020-05-18

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Publications as of 2026-07-01
Grants as of 2026-06-30

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Recent Publications

Last 2 years · showing 20 of 130

Circulating lipids are related to longitudinal changes of ATN biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
Molecular Psychiatry · 2026-06-16
A multi-organ metabolomics atlas reveals molecular dysregulations in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models
Cell Reports · 2026-06-01
511 LARGE-SCALE EVIDENCE FOR DIURNAL AND SEASONAL OSCILLATIONS IN THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOME
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2026-05-01
511 LARGE-SCALE EVIDENCE FOR DIURNAL AND SEASONAL OSCILLATIONS IN THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIOME
Gastroenterology · 2026-05-01
Antibiotic resistant Achromobacter xylosoxidans are highly susceptible to bacteriophages and often are killed synergistically by phage/antibiotic combinationsPreprint
Research Square · 2026-04-30
Insects shape the cadaver decomposition microbiome and postmortem interval estimation accuracy
mSystems · 2026-04-27
The microbiome and the exposome: Implications for cancer risk
Elsevier eBooks · 2026-01-01
Genetic architecture and mechanisms of host-microbiome interactions from a multi-cohort analysis of outbred laboratory rats
Nature Communications · 2025-12-18 · 1 citations
Environmental and skin–nasal microbiome variation in South African children with atopic dermatitis
BMC Microbiology · 2025-12-12 · 1 citations
Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis
Nature Methods · 2025-12-11 · 12 citations
Value of Multiomics Over Clinical Risk Factors in Hypertension Prediction
Hypertension · 2025-12-11 · 1 citations
A resource to empirically establish drug exposure records directly from untargeted metabolomics data
Nature Communications · 2025-12-09 · 3 citations
Supplementary Table 1 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 2 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 5 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 3 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 8 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 4 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Supplementary Table 6 from Stability of the Fecal and Oral Microbiome over 2 Years at −80°C for Multiple Collection Methods
2025-11-26
Environmental and maternal imprints on infant gut metabolic development
Cell Host & Microbe · 2025-11-26 · 7 citations

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