Publications

2025

Dietary carbohydrates alter immune-modulatory functionalities and DNA inversions in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Nature Communications (2025)
Gal-Mandelbaum N, Carasso S, Kedem A, Ziv T, Keshet-David R, Abboud R, Zaatry R, Gefen T, Geva-Zatorsky N

Esophageal microbiome correlates with post-esophagectomy anastomotic leak in cancer patients, ESMO Gastrointestinal Oncology (2025)
#Naddaf R, #Shmilovich H, #Carasso S, Keshet-David R, Herren R, Gefen T, Goshen-Lago T, Zwang Y, Livyatan I, Shental N, Haberfeld O, Straussman R, Markar S.R., Nilsson M, Kashtan H, Ben-Aharon I, Geva-Zatorsky N

Bacteriophage-driven DNA inversions shape bacterial functionality and long-term co-existence in Bacteroides fragilis, Gut Microbes (2025)
#Carasso S, #Keshet-David R, Zhang J, Hajjo H, Kadosh-Kariti D, Gefen T, Geva-Zatorsky N

2024

Inflammation and bacteriophages affect DNA inversion states and functionality of the gut microbiota, Cell Host & Microbe (2024)
#Carasso S, #Zaatry R, #Hajjo H, #Kadosh-Kariti D, Ben-Assa N, Naddaf N, Mandelbaum N, Pressman S, Chowers Y, Gefen T, Jeffrey K.L., Jofre J, Coyne M.J., Comstock L.E., Sharon I, Geva-Zatorsky N

2023

Gut microbial signatures are associated with Lynch syndrome (LS) and cancer history in Druze communities in Israel, Scientific Reports (2023)
#Naddaf R, #Carasso S, Reznick-Levi G, Hasnis E, Qarawani A, Maza I, Gefen T, Half E. E., Geva-Zatorsky N

Extracellular vesicles of the Gram-positive gut symbiont *Bifidobacterium longum* induce immune-modulatory, anti-inflammatory effects, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2023)
Mandelbaum N, Zhang L, Carasso S, Ziv T, Lifshiz-Simon S, Davidovich I, Luz I, Berinstein E, Gefen T, Cooks T, Talmon Y, Balskus E. P., Geva-Zatorsky N

2022

Microbiome characterization of infected diabetic foot ulcers in association with clinical outcomes: traditional cultures versus molecular sequencing methods, Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol (2022)
#Mudrik-Zohar H, #Carasso S, Gefen T, Zalmanovich A, Katzir M, Cohen Y, Paitan Y, Geva-Zatorsky N, Chowers M

2021

The mechanical cost of decreasing conduction velocity: a mathematical model of pacing-induced lower strain, J Atr Fibrillation (2021)
Marai I, Carasso D, Carasso S, Carasso S

Metagenomic analysis reveals the signature of gut microbiota associated with human chronotypes, FASEB J (2021)
Carasso S, Fishman B, Lask LS, Shochat T, Geva-Zatorsky N, Tauber E

“More guts than brains?”--the role of gut microbiota in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology (2021)
Berkowitz E, Kopelman Y, Kadosh D, Carasso S, Tiosano B, Kesler A, Geva-Zatorsky N

2020

Analysis of a phase-variable restriction modification system of the human gut symbiont *Bacteroides fragilis, Nucleic Acids Research (2020)
Ben-Assa N, Coyne MJ, Fomenkov A, Livny J, Robins WP, Muniesa M, Carey V, Carasso S, Gefen T, Jofre J, Roberts RJ, Comstock LE, Geva-Zatorsky N

Oral capsulized fecal microbiota transplantation for eradication of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae colonization with a metagenomic perspective, Clinical Infectious Diseases (2020)
#Bar-Yoseph H, #Carasso S, Shklar S, Korytny A, Even Dar R, Daoud H, Nassar R, Maharshak N, Hussein K, Geffen Y, Chowers Y, Geva-Zatorsky N, Paul M

Phage-Bacteria Associations: Analyze. Match. Develop Therapies, Cell Host & Microbe (2020)
Carasso S, Hajjo H, Geva-Zatorsky N