Professor
Prof. Thomas Charles Adrian Hitch
BSc(Hons), PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Fellow (by courtesy)
Peter Hung Pain Research Institute
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
For more details about my academic profile, see:
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2244-7412
Publications
For details about citations arising from my publications and links to online versions of some of the publications, refer to:
- Hitch, T.C.A., Bosch, J., Bolsega, S., et al. (2025). Function-based selection of synthetic communities enables mechanistic microbiome studies. The ISME Journal, 19(1).
- Hitch, T.C.A., Masson, J.M., Pauvert, C., et al. (2025). HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nature Communications, 16(1).
- Schmitz, M.A., Dimonaco, N.J., Clavel, T. & Hitch, T.C.A. (2025). Lineage-specific microbial protein prediction enables large-scale exploration of protein ecology within the human gut. Nature Communications, 16(1).
- Lu, Q., Hitch, T.C.A., Zhou, J.Y., et al. (2024). A host-adapted auxotrophic gut symbiont induces mucosal immunodeficiency. Science, 385(6716).
- Afrizal, A., Jennings, S.A.V., Hitch, T.C.A., et al. (2022). Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities. Cell Host & Microbe, 30(11), 1630–1645.e25.
- Hitch, T.C.A., Riedel, T., Oren, A., Overmann, J., Lawley, T.D. & Clavel, T. (2021). Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria. ISME Communications, 1(1).
- Hitch, T.C.A. & Creevey, C.J. (2018). Spherical: an iterative workflow for assembling metagenomic datasets. BMC Bioinformatics, 19(1).
Last updated on 11-11-2026