Lawrence Anthony David

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Appointments and Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
• Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society

Contact Information

• Office Location: Box 103053, Durham, NC 27710
• Office Phone: (919) 668-5388
• Email Address: lawrence.david@duke.edu
• Websites:
  • www.ladlab.org

Education

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Sloan Research Fellowship-Molecular Biology. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2014
• Harvard Society Junior Fellows. Harvard Society of Fellows. 2010

Courses Taught

• BIOLOGY 728F: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module VI
• CMB 778F: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module VI
• EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
• MGM 293: Research Independent Study I
• MGM 593: Research Independent Study
• MGM 778F: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module VI
• STA 693: Research Independent Study
• UPGEN 778A: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module I
• UPGEN 778F: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module VI

In the News

• Everybody's Microbiome Is Different. So How Do You Study It Usefully? (Jul 1, 2020 | Center for Genomic and Computational Biology)
• Poop: It's a Great Thing to Study (Jan 7, 2020)
• Our Microbes Are Starving, and That’s a Good Thing (Oct 29, 2018)
• AI Detects Patterns Of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk (May 7, 2018)
• Microbes Evolved to Colonize Different Parts of the Human Body (Mar 20, 2017)
• Ten Scientists to Watch: Lawrence Davids gut check gets personal (Sep 22, 2016 | Science News)
• A Little Dirt Won't Hurt You (Jun 17, 2016)
• New Collaborative Seed Grant Program Gives Eight Awards (Mar 16, 2016)
• Lawrence David Named Searle Scholar (Apr 15, 2015)
• Q-and-A: Scientist studied his poop for a year to learn about gut bugs (Jul 25, 2014 | National Geographic)
• Lawrence David Gets to the Gut of the Matter (May 13, 2014 | Duke Research Blog)
• Five Science Faculty Win Sloan Fellowships (Feb 18, 2014)
• Changes in diet can alter gut bacteria within 24 hours (Dec 12, 2013 | Fox News, LiveScience)
• MIcrobes R Us (Oct 23, 2013)

Representative Publications

• Cholan, PM; Han, A; Woodie, BR; Watchon, M; Kurz, AR; Laird, AS; Britton, WJ; Ye, L; Holmes, ZC; McCann, JR; David, LA; Rawls, JF; Oehlers, SH, Conserved anti-inflammatory effects and sensing of butyrate in zebrafish., Gut Microbes, vol 12 no. 1 (2020), pp. 1-11 [10.1080/19490976.2020.1824563] [abs].
• Holmes, ZC; Silverman, JD; Dressman, HK; Wei, Z; Dallow, EP; Armstrong, SC; Seed, PC; Rawls, JF; David, LA, Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production by Gut Microbiota from Children with Obesity Differs According to Prebiotic Choice and Bacterial Community Composition., Mbio, vol 11 no. 4 (2020) [10.1128/mBio.00914-20] [abs].
• Levade, I; Saber, MM; Midani, F; Chowdhury, F; Khan, AI; Begum, YA; Ryan, ET; David, LA; Calderwood, SB; Harris, JB; LaRocque, RC; Qadri, F; Shapiro, BJ; Weil, AA, Predicting Vibrio cholerae infection and disease severity using metagenomics in a prospective cohort study., The Journal of Infectious Diseases (2020) [10.1093/infdis/jiaa358] [abs].
• Villa, MM; Bloom, RJ; Silverman, JD; Durand, HK; Jiang, S; Wu, A; Dallow, EP; Huang, S; You, L; David, LA, Interindividual Variation in Dietary Carbohydrate Metabolism by Gut Bacteria Revealed with Droplet Microfluidic Culture., Msystems, vol 5 no. 3 (2020) [10.1128/mSystems.00864-19] [abs].
• Martiny, JBH; Whiteson, KL; Bohannan, BJM; David, LA; Hynson, NA; McFall-Ngai, M; Rawls, JF; Schmidt, TM; Abdo, Z; Blaser, MJ; Bordenstein, S; Bréchot, C; Bull, CT; Dorrestein, P; Eisen, JA; Garcia-Pichel, F; Gilbert, J; Hofmockel, KS; Holtz, ML; Knight, R; Mark Welch, DB; McDonald, D; Methé, B; Mouncey, NJ; Mueller, NT; Pfister, CA; Proctor, L; Sachs, JL, The emergence of microbiome centres., Nature Microbiology, vol 5 no. 1 (2020), pp. 2-3 [10.1038/s41564-019-0644-x] [abs].