Luisella Spiga

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Luisella Spiga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Luisella Spiga has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Food Science and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Luisella Spiga's work include Gut microbiota and health (13 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (7 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Luisella Spiga is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (13 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (7 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (6 papers). Luisella Spiga collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Italy. Luisella Spiga's co-authors include Sebastian Winter, Wenhan Zhu, Maria G. Winter, Elizabeth R. Hughes, Caroline C. Gillis, Lora V. Hooper, Cassie L. Behrendt, Renato L. Santos, Mariana X. Byndloss and Breck A. Duerkop and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Luisella Spiga

21 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis

2018 425 citations Wenhan Zhu, Maria G. Winter et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luisella Spiga United States	14	993	405	343	199	145	21	1.4k
Elizabeth R. Hughes United States	9	804 0.8×	313 0.8×	220 0.6×	171 0.9×	78 0.5×	11	1.1k
Caroline C. Gillis United States	9	713 0.7×	275 0.7×	208 0.6×	150 0.8×	80 0.6×	9	971
Sandrine Brugiroux Germany	8	787 0.8×	297 0.7×	289 0.8×	108 0.5×	65 0.4×	12	1.1k
Catharina Wising Sweden	7	835 0.8×	243 0.6×	259 0.8×	202 1.0×	54 0.4×	9	1.5k
Aline Dupont Germany	14	662 0.7×	220 0.5×	193 0.6×	161 0.8×	99 0.7×	24	1.3k
Vanessa Kissoon‐Singh Canada	7	568 0.6×	253 0.6×	243 0.7×	149 0.7×	91 0.6×	7	1.1k
Gurpreet Kaur India	24	628 0.6×	231 0.6×	488 1.4×	147 0.7×	63 0.4×	99	1.6k
Rosa Gíménez Spain	21	968 1.0×	193 0.5×	155 0.5×	206 1.0×	165 1.1×	37	1.6k
Shu Wei China	13	904 0.9×	219 0.5×	678 2.0×	282 1.4×	85 0.6×	37	1.6k
You-Tae Kim South Korea	14	511 0.5×	131 0.3×	274 0.8×	89 0.4×	100 0.7×	27	937

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luisella Spiga

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ryan, Daniel, Luisella Spiga, Lars Barquist, et al.. (2025). The global RNA-binding protein RbpB is a regulator of polysaccharide utilization in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Nature Communications. 16(1). 208–208. 4 indexed citations

Winter, Maria G., et al.. (2024). Infection-associated gene regulation of L-tartrate metabolism in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. mBio. 15(6). e0035024–e0035024. 1 indexed citations

Spiga, Luisella, Y. Randika Perera, Nicolas G. Shealy, et al.. (2023). Iron acquisition by a commensal bacterium modifies host nutritional immunity during Salmonella infection. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(10). 1639–1654.e10. 35 indexed citations

Winter, Maria G., Elizabeth R. Hughes, Rachael B. Chanin, et al.. (2023). Formate oxidation in the intestinal mucus layer enhances fitness of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. mBio. 14(4). e0092123–e0092123. 8 indexed citations

Bogomolnaya, Lydia M., Joana Rocha, Wenhan Zhu, et al.. (2022). Taxonomic and Metagenomic Analyses Define the Development of the Microbiota in the Chick. mBio. 14(1). e0244422–e0244422. 2 indexed citations

Winter, Maria G., Caroline C. Gillis, Rachael B. Chanin, et al.. (2022). Colonocyte-derived lactate promotes E. coli fitness in the context of inflammation-associated gut microbiota dysbiosis. Microbiome. 10(1). 200–200. 34 indexed citations

Spiga, Luisella, et al.. (2021). How microbiological tests reflect bacterial pathogenesis and host adaptation. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology. 52(4). 1745–1753. 2 indexed citations

Hughes, Elizabeth R., Maria G. Winter, Caroline C. Gillis, et al.. (2021). Reshaping of bacterial molecular hydrogen metabolism contributes to the outgrowth of commensal E. coli during gut inflammation. eLife. 10. 9 indexed citations

Zhu, Wenhan, Maria G. Winter, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2020). Xenosiderophore Utilization Promotes Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Resilience during Colitis. Cell Host & Microbe. 27(3). 376–388.e8. 75 indexed citations

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Chanin, Rachael B., Maria G. Winter, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2020). Epithelial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Enable AppBCX-Mediated Aerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli during Intestinal Inflammation. Cell Host & Microbe. 28(6). 780–788.e5. 59 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wenhan, Luisella Spiga, & Sebastian Winter. (2019). Transition metals and host-microbe interactions in the inflamed intestine. BioMetals. 32(3). 369–384. 12 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wenhan, Naoteru Miyata, Maria G. Winter, et al.. (2019). Editing of the gut microbiota reduces carcinogenesis in mouse models of colitis-associated colorectal cancer. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 216(10). 2378–2393. 94 indexed citations

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Spiga, Luisella & Sebastian Winter. (2018). Using Enteric Pathogens to Probe the Gut Microbiota. Trends in Microbiology. 27(3). 243–253. 16 indexed citations

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Gillis, Caroline C., Elizabeth R. Hughes, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2018). Dysbiosis-Associated Change in Host Metabolism Generates Lactate to Support Salmonella Growth. Cell Host & Microbe. 23(4). 570–570. 41 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wenhan, Maria G. Winter, Mariana X. Byndloss, et al.. (2018). Precision editing of the gut microbiota ameliorates colitis. Nature. 553(7687). 208–211. 425 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spiga, Luisella, Maria G. Winter, Tatiane Furtado de Carvalho, et al.. (2017). An Oxidative Central Metabolism Enables Salmonella to Utilize Microbiota-Derived Succinate. Cell Host & Microbe. 22(3). 291–301.e6. 123 indexed citations

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Faber, Franziska, Parameth Thiennimitr, Luisella Spiga, et al.. (2017). Respiration of Microbiota-Derived 1,2-propanediol Drives Salmonella Expansion during Colitis. PLoS Pathogens. 13(1). e1006129–e1006129. 136 indexed citations

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Hughes, Elizabeth R., Maria G. Winter, Breck A. Duerkop, et al.. (2017). Microbial Respiration and Formate Oxidation as Metabolic Signatures of Inflammation-Associated Dysbiosis. Cell Host & Microbe. 21(2). 208–219. 245 indexed citations

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Chessa, Daniela, Luisella Spiga, Antonio Bulla, et al.. (2016). Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis Virulence Strains as Causative Agents of Persistent Infections in Breast Implants. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146668–e0146668. 57 indexed citations

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Chessa, Daniela, et al.. (2014). Lipopolysaccharides Belonging to Different Salmonella Serovars Are Differentially Capable of Activating Toll-Like Receptor 4. Infection and Immunity. 82(11). 4553–4562. 14 indexed citations

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