While inositol lipids are ubiquitous in eukaryotes and have finely tuned roles in cellular signalling and membrane homoeostasis bacterial inositol lipids were previously thought to be limited largely to PI DAG synthesis in Actinobacteria as discribed for the obligate intracellular...
8220 It s time to make the survey of humanity s second genome more complete 8221 A perspective piece on how to fill in the microbiome map by Ruth E Ley 8220 This week marks the tenth anniversary of...
Congratulations to Prof Ruth Ley who has joined the Board of Trustees of the Jung Foundation The Jung Foundation for Science and Research was established in 1967 by Ernst Emil Jung to promote science and social commitment Since 1975 the...
Yesterday Jacobo successfully defended his thesis titled Insights into the human gut microbiome and its link with obesity and cardiometabolic diseases During the last 4 5 years in the Ley Lab he has developed new methods and computational approaches to...
Congratulations to Lara Berg for successfully completing her Masters degree in the Ley Lab For her thesis Lara charaterised strain level metabolic and syntrophic variations in the dominant human gut methanogen Methanobrevibacter smithii Using M smithii samples obtained from stool...
This week saw the release of our latest pre print on bioRxiv Titled Silent recognition of flagellins from human gut commensal bacteria by Toll like receptor 5 this work was led by postdoc Sara Clasen and describes a mechanism for...
Congratulations are in order for Paul OG Jorzik who has successfully completed his Master 8217 s degree Paul completed his thesis in the Ley Lab where he worked on the development of novel genetic systems for non model human gut...
A new review article was published today from postdoc Hagay Enav and Ruth Ley discussing strain level colonisation of the developing infant gut microbiome While the establishment of the infant microbiome has long been an area of interest recent technological...
We are pleased and very proud to announce that postdoctoral researcher Taichi Suzuki has accepted a joint assistant professor position between the College of Health Solutions and Biodesign Institute at the Arizona State University and will be starting his own...
New article on microbiome engineering published in Cell https www sciencedirect com science article abs pii S0092867421014975 via 3Dihub in which our project leader and microbiome engineering expert James Marsh and Ruth E Ley address the recent Cell issue by...
Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Kelsey Huus who was awarded an EMBO fellowship to run the µHEAT study Microbial Human Ecology and Temperature which aims to understand interactions between the gut microbiome and the human immune system in the context of...
In our new publication in Environmental Microbiology we explore the use of genome level phylogenies and also genome derived functional information for assessing alpha and beta diversity Given the large number of microbial genomes that are now available we sought...
In our new preprint Ruaud et al 2022 we introduce endoR an R package to interpret machine learning models We also present the application of endoR to human gut metagenomes to identify associations between H2 producers and methanogens in the...
Congratulations to all doctoral students that presented their work especially Andrea Borbon Mirabeau Mbong and Yihua Liu who were also recognized for the local MPI community among the finest Andrea got the second place among the best posters presentations with...
Archaea are often mistaken as bacteria given that both are small single cell organisms However archaea are as genetically different from bacteria as humans are from bacteria While archaea are found in most environments including the human gut microbiome relatively...
In this YouTube video Nick Youngblut and colleagues discuss their latest work on the Archaea of the vertebrate gut Read the original research paper in Nature Microbiology and the less technical summary on our MPI blog
...
Ever wonder if H pylori was the only gut microbe that tracked human population as they migrated out of Africa Here we show evidence that others did too By matching human genotype data to gut metagenome data Taichi Suzuki Liam...
Check out Hagay Enav 8217 s new tool SynTracker for comparing microbial strains using comparative synteny It requires remarkably small fractions of genomes to do so and is good at ignoring differences in strains at the SNP level
...
Here doctoral student Michael Bell prepares samples for the Cryo EM Please see the Join Us page for more details
...
The 1929 Nobel Prize was given for pyrotherapy heating people up to 41C to kill the Treponema causing syphilis Ever wonder what fever does to the body 8217 s microbiome Post Doc Dr Kelsey Huss has looked into it and...
While inositol lipids are ubiquitous in eukaryotes and have finely tuned roles in cellular signalling and membrane homoeostasis bacterial inositol lipids were previously thought to be limited largely to PI DAG synthesis in Actinobacteria as discribed for the obligate intracellular...
8220 It s time to make the survey of humanity s second genome more complete 8221 A perspective piece on how to fill in the microbiome map by Ruth E Ley 8220 This week marks the tenth anniversary of...
Congratulations to Prof Ruth Ley who has joined the Board of Trustees of the Jung Foundation The Jung Foundation for Science and Research was established in 1967 by Ernst Emil Jung to promote science and social commitment Since 1975 the...
Yesterday Jacobo successfully defended his thesis titled Insights into the human gut microbiome and its link with obesity and cardiometabolic diseases During the last 4 5 years in the Ley Lab he has developed new methods and computational approaches to...
Congratulations to Lara Berg for successfully completing her Masters degree in the Ley Lab For her thesis Lara charaterised strain level metabolic and syntrophic variations in the dominant human gut methanogen Methanobrevibacter smithii Using M smithii samples obtained from stool...
This week saw the release of our latest pre print on bioRxiv Titled Silent recognition of flagellins from human gut commensal bacteria by Toll like receptor 5 this work was led by postdoc Sara Clasen and describes a mechanism for...
Congratulations are in order for Paul OG Jorzik who has successfully completed his Master 8217 s degree Paul completed his thesis in the Ley Lab where he worked on the development of novel genetic systems for non model human gut...
A new review article was published today from postdoc Hagay Enav and Ruth Ley discussing strain level colonisation of the developing infant gut microbiome While the establishment of the infant microbiome has long been an area of interest recent technological...
We are pleased and very proud to announce that postdoctoral researcher Taichi Suzuki has accepted a joint assistant professor position between the College of Health Solutions and Biodesign Institute at the Arizona State University and will be starting his own...
New article on microbiome engineering published in Cell https www sciencedirect com science article abs pii S0092867421014975 via 3Dihub in which our project leader and microbiome engineering expert James Marsh and Ruth E Ley address the recent Cell issue by...
Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Kelsey Huus who was awarded an EMBO fellowship to run the µHEAT study Microbial Human Ecology and Temperature which aims to understand interactions between the gut microbiome and the human immune system in the context of...
In our new publication in Environmental Microbiology we explore the use of genome level phylogenies and also genome derived functional information for assessing alpha and beta diversity Given the large number of microbial genomes that are now available we sought...
In our new preprint Ruaud et al 2022 we introduce endoR an R package to interpret machine learning models We also present the application of endoR to human gut metagenomes to identify associations between H2 producers and methanogens in the...
Congratulations to all doctoral students that presented their work especially Andrea Borbon Mirabeau Mbong and Yihua Liu who were also recognized for the local MPI community among the finest Andrea got the second place among the best posters presentations with...
Archaea are often mistaken as bacteria given that both are small single cell organisms However archaea are as genetically different from bacteria as humans are from bacteria While archaea are found in most environments including the human gut microbiome relatively...
In this YouTube video Nick Youngblut and colleagues discuss their latest work on the Archaea of the vertebrate gut Read the original research paper in Nature Microbiology and the less technical summary on our MPI blog
...
Ever wonder if H pylori was the only gut microbe that tracked human population as they migrated out of Africa Here we show evidence that others did too By matching human genotype data to gut metagenome data Taichi Suzuki Liam...
Check out Hagay Enav 8217 s new tool SynTracker for comparing microbial strains using comparative synteny It requires remarkably small fractions of genomes to do so and is good at ignoring differences in strains at the SNP level
...
Here doctoral student Michael Bell prepares samples for the Cryo EM Please see the Join Us page for more details
...
The 1929 Nobel Prize was given for pyrotherapy heating people up to 41C to kill the Treponema causing syphilis Ever wonder what fever does to the body 8217 s microbiome Post Doc Dr Kelsey Huss has looked into it and...