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Ben Willing

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ProfessorAg, Food & Nutri Sci DeptUniversity of Alberta

Ben Willing

Professor

Ag, Food & Nutri Sci Dept

Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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63 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 29 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Reduced fibre-fermenting capacity of gut microbes in multiple sclerosis may result in prebiotic dietary fibre β-fructan promoting inflammation and CNS damage.
eGastroenterology · 2026
Dietary Ethanolamine Increases Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet
Journal of Nutrition · 2026
Mapping Glycan Binding Profiles of the Gut Microbes using Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026

All 156 publications

From the 150 most recent of 156 publications.

Reduced fibre-fermenting capacity of gut microbes in multiple sclerosis may result in prebiotic dietary fibre β-fructan promoting inflammation and CNS damage.

Tollenaar SL, Khorasaniha R, Jovel J, Ba I, Voisin A, Miller R, Olof H, Mahmood R, Marrie RA, Strachan E, Soares LP, Cheng C, Janveaux J, Zaidi D, Bernstein CN, Bonner C, Bar-Or A, Waubant E, Yeh EA, Graham M, Arnold DL, O'Mahony J, Banwell BL, Zhu F, Mirza AI, Karimi-Abdolrezaee S, Tsai S, Tremlett H, McGregor K, Willing BP, Armstrong H

eGastroenterology20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/egastro-2025-100296 PMID: 41585377

Dietary Ethanolamine Increases Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

Courtney M Holdaway, Amy Vo, Kelly‐Ann Leonard, Randal C. Nelson, Aducio Thiesen, Yi Fan, Camila Schultz Marcolla, Robin D. Clugston, Benjamin P. Willing, René L. Jacobs

Journal of Nutrition2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.101348 PMID: 41519234

Mapping Glycan Binding Profiles of the Gut Microbes using Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA)

Pravina Yadav, Chuanhao Peng, Mirat Sojitra, Shreyas Gupta, Benjamin P. Willing, Ratmir Derda

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.17.712435

Current Research in Fermented Foods: Bridging Tradition and Science

Kara Sampsell, Camila Schultz Marcolla, Samantha Tapping, Yi Fan, Carla Liria Sánchez-Lafuente, Benjamin P. Willing, Raylene A. Reimer, Jeremy P. Burton

Advances in Nutrition202516 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.advnut.2025.100554 PMID: 41232606

Fermentation of kefir with traditional freeze-dried starter cultures successfully recreates fresh culture fermented kefir.

Mudoor Sooresh M, Jayawickrama A, Silva A, Nguyen S, Schmidt S, Sebastian J, Carey S, Harynuk J, Willing BP, Bourrie BCT

Frontiers in microbiology20259 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1655390 PMID: 41140397

Fecal microbiota transplantation in pigs: current status and future perspective

Rajibur Rahman, Camila Schultz Marcolla, Benjamin P. Willing

Animal Microbiome20257 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s42523-025-00440-w PMID: 40685369

The impact of wild-boar-derived microbiota transplantation on piglet microbiota, metabolite profile, and gut proinflammatory cytokine production differs from sow-derived microbiota.

Rahman R, Fouhse JM, Ju T, Fan Y, Bhardwaj T, Brook RK, Nosach R, Harding J, Willing BP

Applied and environmental microbiology20256 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1128/aem.02265-24 PMID: 39902926

Metabolic modeling of microbial communities in the chicken ceca reveals a landscape of competition and co-operation.

Utkina I, Fan Y, Willing BP, Parkinson J

Microbiome20255 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s40168-025-02241-4 PMID: 41310806

The assembly of a hybrid type IV secretion system by a Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli strain.

Wong J, Refaat A, Villacampa-Teixeira P, Patkowski JB, Lapa N, Ortiz J, Dzierlega K, Roberts B, Tollenaar S, Croxen M, Thiesen A, Kao D, Willing B, Clemente-Casares X, Costa TRD, Elhenawy W

Nature communications20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63859-4 PMID: 41038829

Impact of a defined bacterial community including and excluding Megamonas hypermegale on broiler cecal microbiota and resistance to Salmonella infection

Camila Schultz Marcolla, Tingting Ju, Kimberlee Ten, Usha Sivakumar Sharma, Leakhena Moeun, Benjamin P. Willing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology20252 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1128/aem.00948-25 PMID: 40827876

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Ben Willing

Research

Latest papers

Reduced fibre-fermenting capacity of gut microbes in multiple sclerosis may result in prebiotic dietary fibre β-fructan promoting inflammation and CNS damage.

Dietary Ethanolamine Increases Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

Mapping Glycan Binding Profiles of the Gut Microbes using Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA)

Current Research in Fermented Foods: Bridging Tradition and Science

Fermentation of kefir with traditional freeze-dried starter cultures successfully recreates fresh culture fermented kefir.

Fecal microbiota transplantation in pigs: current status and future perspective

The impact of wild-boar-derived microbiota transplantation on piglet microbiota, metabolite profile, and gut proinflammatory cytokine production differs from sow-derived microbiota.

Metabolic modeling of microbial communities in the chicken ceca reveals a landscape of competition and co-operation.

The assembly of a hybrid type IV secretion system by a Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli strain.

Impact of a defined bacterial community including and excluding Megamonas hypermegale on broiler cecal microbiota and resistance to Salmonella infection

Frequent collaborators

Benjamin Willing

Barton Finlay

Caroline Richard

Spencer Proctor

Sue Tsai

Justine Turner

Catherine Field

Paul Stothard

Catherine Chan

Ruurd Zijlstra

John Harding

Bruce Vallance

Rene Jacobs

Matthew Croxen

Samantha Gruenheid

Graham Plastow

Alfredo Menendez

Michael Gänzle

John Parkinson

Kelly McNagny

Xavier Clemente-Casares

Leo Dieleman

Hien Huynh

Jun Han

Dan Winer

Ben Willing

Research

Latest papers

Reduced fibre-fermenting capacity of gut microbes in multiple sclerosis may result in prebiotic dietary fibre &#x3b2;-fructan promoting inflammation and CNS damage.

Dietary Ethanolamine Increases Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

Mapping Glycan Binding Profiles of the Gut Microbes using Liquid Glycan Array (LiGA)

Current Research in Fermented Foods: Bridging Tradition and Science

Fermentation of kefir with traditional freeze-dried starter cultures successfully recreates fresh culture fermented kefir.

Fecal microbiota transplantation in pigs: current status and future perspective

The impact of wild-boar-derived microbiota transplantation on piglet microbiota, metabolite profile, and gut proinflammatory cytokine production differs from sow-derived microbiota.

Metabolic modeling of microbial communities in the chicken ceca reveals a landscape of competition and co-operation.

The assembly of a hybrid type IV secretion system by a Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli strain.

Impact of a defined bacterial community including and excluding Megamonas hypermegale on broiler cecal microbiota and resistance to Salmonella infection

Frequent collaborators

Benjamin Willing

Barton Finlay

Caroline Richard

Spencer Proctor

Sue Tsai

Justine Turner

Catherine Field

Paul Stothard

Catherine Chan

Ruurd Zijlstra

John Harding

Bruce Vallance

Rene Jacobs

Matthew Croxen

Samantha Gruenheid

Graham Plastow

Alfredo Menendez

Michael Gänzle

John Parkinson

Kelly McNagny

Xavier Clemente-Casares

Leo Dieleman

Hien Huynh

Jun Han

Dan Winer

Reduced fibre-fermenting capacity of gut microbes in multiple sclerosis may result in prebiotic dietary fibre β-fructan promoting inflammation and CNS damage.