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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 Jin et al. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867421015415) and discuss innovative tools for editing...

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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 vaccination....

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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 human...

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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...

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We have a new Doctor! Last week, Albane Ruaud defended her thesis titled “Analysis of human gut metagenomes for the prediction of host traits with tree ensemble machine learning models”, for which she was awarded the Magna Cum Laude distinction....

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Welter et al.’s analysis of the evolutionary history of Psychrobacter is out in mSystems. Her phylogenomic analysis, combined with the outcome of >10,000 growth tests, indicates that the psychrophiles in this genus are descendants of warm host-associated ancestors. More about...

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Our contribution to encouraging bacterial classification to match phylogeny is in this pitch to rename Catabacter as Christensenella, based on whole genome analysis of isolates by Xiaoying Liu – pubished in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

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Daphne Welter is our second graduate student to have defended during the pandemic. She presented her thesis entitled “Insights into the ecology and evolutionary history of the bacterial genus Psychrobacter”. mSystems published her paper during her presentation as an Editor’s...

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The Bayer Foundation announced today that Ruth Ley is the 2020 recipient of the Otto Bayer Award. We are very grateful to the foundation for this recognition of the lab’s work. Read the announcement here: https://www.bayer-foundation.com/otto-bayer-award-goes-ruth-ley

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Marsh

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 Jin et al. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867421015415) and discuss innovative tools for editing...

Kelsey_uHEAT

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 vaccination....

Workflow_twitter

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 human...

news_feed

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...

Untitled

We have a new Doctor! Last week, Albane Ruaud defended her thesis titled “Analysis of human gut metagenomes for the prediction of host traits with tree ensemble machine learning models”, for which she was awarded the Magna Cum Laude distinction....

Screenshot_2021-04-21_at_18.45.11

Welter et al.’s analysis of the evolutionary history of Psychrobacter is out in mSystems. Her phylogenomic analysis, combined with the outcome of >10,000 growth tests, indicates that the psychrophiles in this genus are descendants of warm host-associated ancestors. More about...

Screenshot_2021-04-21_at_19.00.35

Our contribution to encouraging bacterial classification to match phylogeny is in this pitch to rename Catabacter as Christensenella, based on whole genome analysis of isolates by Xiaoying Liu – pubished in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.

...
Screenshot_20210418_193905

Daphne Welter is our second graduate student to have defended during the pandemic. She presented her thesis entitled “Insights into the ecology and evolutionary history of the bacterial genus Psychrobacter”. mSystems published her paper during her presentation as an Editor’s...

Screenshot_2020-12-07_at_10.59.52

The Bayer Foundation announced today that Ruth Ley is the 2020 recipient of the Otto Bayer Award. We are very grateful to the foundation for this recognition of the lab’s work. Read the announcement here: https://www.bayer-foundation.com/otto-bayer-award-goes-ruth-ley

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