Aggression and the Gut Microbiome

Project Information

BEHAVIOME

Grant agreement ID: 101001355

DOI

10.3030/101001355

EC signature date 1 February 2021

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 28 February 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 996 365,00

EU contribution

€ 1 996 365,00

Coordinated by

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY
Israel

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Gut microbes and host behavior: The forgotten members of the gut-microbiome

Author(s): Ariel Weiner, Sondra Turjeman, Omry Koren
Published in: Neuropharmacology, Issue 227, 2023, Page(s) 109453, ISSN 0028-3908
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2023.109453

Multi-level analysis of the gut–brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles

Author(s): James T. Morton, Dong-Min Jin, Robert H. Mills, Yan Shao, Gibraan Rahman, Daniel McDonald, Qiyun Zhu, Metin Balaban, Yueyu Jiang, Kalen Cantrell, Antonio Gonzalez, Julie Carmel, Linoy Mia Frankiensztajn, Sandra Martin-Brevet, Kirsten Berding, Brittany D. Needham, María Fernanda Zurita, Maude David, Olga V. Averina, Alexey S. Kovtun, Antonio Noto, Michele Mussap, Mingbang Wang, Daniel N. Frank, El
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, Issue 26, 2023, Page(s) 1208-1217, ISSN 1546-1726
Publisher: SPringer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01361-0

The social microbiome: Eubacterium links gut microbiota to prosocial behavior in stressed and naïve rats, a gut-brain axis study

Author(s): Reut Hazani, Aron Weller, Sondra Turjeman, Efrat Sharon, Natalia Saleev, Lelyan Moadi, Evan Elliott, Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Omry Koren
Published in: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Issue 129, 2025, Page(s) 505-520, ISSN 0889-1591
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2025.06.023

A gut reaction? The role of the microbiome in aggression

Author(s): Atara Uzan-Yulzari, Sondra Turjeman, Lelyan Moadi, Dmitriy Getselter, Efrat Sharon, Samuli Rautava, Erika Isolauri, Soliman Khatib, Evan Elliott, Omry Koren
Published in: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Issue 122, 2025, Page(s) 301-312, ISSN 0889-1591
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.08.011

MetaPhlAn 4 profiling of unknown species-level genome bins improves the characterization of diet-associated microbiome changes in mice

Author(s): Paolo Manghi, Aitor Blanco-Míguez, Serena Manara, Amir NabiNejad, Fabio Cumbo, Francesco Beghini, Federica Armanini, Davide Golzato, Kun D Huang, Andrew M Thomas, Gianmarco Piccinno, Michal Punčochář, Moreno Zolfo, Till R Lesker, Marius Bredon, Julien Planchais, Jeremy Glodt, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Omry Koren, Edoardo Pasolli, Francesco Asnicar, Till Strowig, Harry Sokol, Nicola Segata
Published in: Cell Reports, Issue 42(5), 2023, Page(s) 112464, ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112464

The effect of testosterone on the gut microbiome in mice

Author(s): Lelyan Moadi, Sondra Turjeman, Nofar Asulin, Omry Koren
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06470-5

Microbes, metabolites and (synaptic) malleability, oh my! The effect of the microbiome on synaptic plasticity

Author(s): Glinert A, Turjeman S, Elliott E, Koren O
Published in: Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, Issue 14647931, 2022, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12812

The intersection of undernutrition, microbiome, and child development in the first years of life

Author(s): Fanette Fontaine, Sondra Turjeman, Karel Callens, Omry Koren
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 3554, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39285-9

From big data and experimental models to clinical trials: Iterative strategies in microbiome research

Author(s): Sondra Turjeman, Tommaso Rozera, Eran Elinav, Gianluca Ianiro, Omry Koren
Published in: Cell, Issue 188, 2025, Page(s) 1178-1197, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.01.038

Recipient-independent, high-accuracy FMT-response prediction and optimization in mice and humans

Author(s): Oshrit Shtossel, Sondra Turjeman, Alona Riumin, Michael R Goldberg, Arnon Elizur, Yarin Bekor, Hadar Mor, Omry Koren, Yoram Louzoun
Published in: Microbiome, Issue 11(1), 2023, Page(s) 181, ISSN 2049-2618
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01623-w

Celiac—the lone horse? An autoimmune condition without signals of microbiota dysbiosis

Author(s): Sondra Turjeman, Efrat Sharon, Rachel Levin, Beata Oralewska, Anna Szaflarska-Popławska, Joanna B Bierła, Bożena Cukrowska, Omry Koren
Published in: Microbiology Spectrum, Issue 11(5), 2023, ISSN 2165-0497
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01463-23

The gut microbiome in pregnancy and pregnancy complications

Author(s): Sondra Turjeman; Maria Carmen Collado; Omry Koren
Published in: Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research, 2021, ISSN 2451-9650
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.coemr.2021.03.004

Gestational diabetes is driven by microbiota-induced inflammation months before diagnosis

Author(s): Pinto Y, Frishman S, Turjeman S, Eshel A, Nuriel-Ohayon M, Shrossel O, Ziv O, Walters W, Parsonnet J, Ley C, Johnson EL, Kumar K, Schweitzer R, Khatib S, Magzal F, Muller E, Tamir S, Tenenbaum-Gavish K, Rautava S, Salminen S, Isolauri E, Yariv O, Peled Y, Poran E, Pardo J, Chen R, Hod M, Borenstein E, Ley RE, Schwartz B, Louzoun Y, Hadar E, Koren O.
Published in: Gut, Issue 72(5), 2023, Page(s) 918–928, ISSN 1468-3288
Publisher: Gut
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-328406

Bridging the bench‐to‐bedside divide in microbiome research

Author(s): Sondra Turjeman, Omry Koren
Published in: Clinical and Translational Medicine, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2001-1326
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.70358

Antibiotics increase aggression behavior and aggression-related pheromones and receptors in Drosophila melanogaster

Author(s): M. Grinberg; R. Levin; H. Neuman; O. Ziv; S. Turjeman; G. Gamliel; R. Nosenko; O. Koren
Published in: iScience, 2022, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104371