Thaisa M. Cantu-Jungles
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
51
Citations
1,438
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
14
Publishing since 2013
Thaisa M. Cantu-Jungles studies how dietary fibers (carbohydrates that resist digestion and are fermented by gut bacteria) interact with the gut microbiota to influence health, including conditions like Parkinson's disease and posttraumatic stress disorder. Her work focuses on designing specific fiber mixtures that produce predictable, beneficial shifts in gut bacterial communities and their metabolic byproducts (such as short-chain fatty acids), with applications extending to the gut-brain connection.
Publication output has grown substantially over the last decade, rising from a handful of papers per year around 2017-2020 to a peak of 11 in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Prebiotic intervention changes host and microbe proteomes in plasma extracellular vesicles of Parkinson’s disease
Scientific Reports · 2026
- Prebiotics as an adjunct therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2025
- New Insights into Synergistic Boosts in SCFA Production Across Health Conditions Induced by a Fiber Mixture
Nutrients · 2025
- Use of a Novel Passive E-Nose to Monitor Fermentable Prebiotic Fiber Consumption
Sensors · 2025
- Dietary fibre responses in microbiota reveal opportunity for disease-specific prebiotic approaches
Beneficial Microbes · 2025
- Shared Dynamics of the Colonic Microbiome Make Responses to Fiber Interventions Unexpectedly Consistent Among Individuals
Current Developments in Nutrition · 2025
- Designed Prebiotic Fiber Mixtures for Superior Gut Microbiota and Whole-Body Health
Current Developments in Nutrition · 2025
- 1103: DESIGNED PREBIOTIC RESTRUCTURES THE PLASMA EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES PROTEOME AND MICROBIOME IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Gastroenterology · 2025
- Systematically-designed mixtures outperform single fibers for gut microbiota support
Gut Microbes · 2024
- Designed Dietary Fiber Prebiotics for Gut-Brain Axis Health
Current Developments in Nutrition · 2024
- Circumventing Interindividual Variability: Dietary Fibers of High Specificity Allow Predictable Shifts in the Gut Microbiota
Current Developments in Nutrition · 2024
- An open label, non-randomized study assessing a prebiotic fiber intervention in a small cohort of Parkinson’s disease participants
Nature Communications · 2023
- Tuning Expectations to Reality: Don’t Expect Increased Gut Microbiota Diversity with Dietary Fiber
Journal of Nutrition · 2023
- (1 → 3),(1 → 6) and (1 → 3)-β-D-glucan physico-chemical features drive their fermentation profile by the human gut microbiota
Carbohydrate Polymers · 2023
- Specific dietary fibers prevent heavy metal disruption of the human gut microbiota in vitro
Food Research International · 2023
- Carbohydrate Polymers×6
- Food & Function×4
- Current Developments in Nutrition×4
- mBio×3
- Food Research International×3
- Tingting Chen
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Nuseybe Bulut
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Lavanya Reddivari
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Darryl A. Wesener
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · The Ohio State University
- Shiyu Li
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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