Lawrence Anthony David
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate 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:
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
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
- MGM 293: Research Independent Study I
- MGM 593: Research Independent Study
- STA 693: Research Independent Study
- UPGEN 778A: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module I
- UPGEN 778E: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module V
In the News
- It Doesn’t Matter Much Which Fiber You Choose – Just Get More Fiber! (Jul 29, 2022)
- Meet the Newly Tenured Faculty of 2021 (Sep 21, 2021 | Office of Faculty Advancement)
- How Much Fiber Should You Eat? A Duke Graduate Student Forages for the Answer (Sep 13, 2021 | School of Medicine Magnify)
- 'I Wanted to Be a Part of a Movement:' School of Medicine's Plan for Change (Aug 3, 2021 | School of Medicine)
- School of Medicine Researchers Honored for Study of the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (May 25, 2021 | School of Medicine)
- 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
- Letourneau, J; Holmes, ZC; Dallow, EP; Durand, HK; Jiang, S; Carrion, VM; Gupta, SK; Mincey, AC; Muehlbauer, MJ; Bain, JR; David, LA, Ecological memory of prior nutrient exposure in the human gut microbiome., Isme J (2022) [10.1038/s41396-022-01292-x] [abs].
- Wu, F; Ha, Y; Weiss, A; Wang, M; Letourneau, J; Wang, S; Luo, N; Huang, S; Lee, CT; David, LA; You, L, Modulation of microbial community dynamics by spatial partitioning., Nat Chem Biol, vol 18 no. 4 (2022), pp. 394-402 [10.1038/s41589-021-00961-w] [abs].
- Davey, L; Malkus, P; Villa, M; Dolat, L; Holmes, Z; Letourneau, J; Ansaldo, E; David, L; Barton, G; Valdivia, R, Mucin foraging enables Akkermansia muciniphila to compete against other microbes in the gut and to modulate host sterol biosynthesis (2022) [10.21203/rs.3.rs-1475049/v1] [abs].
- Pfister, CA; Light, SH; Bohannan, B; Schmidt, T; Martiny, A; Hynson, NA; Devkota, S; David, L; Whiteson, K, Conceptual Exchanges for Understanding Free-Living and Host-Associated Microbiomes., Msystems, vol 7 no. 1 (2022) [10.1128/msystems.01374-21] [abs].
- Silverman, JD; Roche, K; Holmes, ZC; David, LA; Mukherjee, S, Bayesian Multinomial Logistic Normal Models through Marginally Latent Matrix-T Processes, Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol 23 (2022) [abs].