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...
This week saw our newest pre print arrive on bioRxiv Postdoc Stacey Heaver shows that inositol lipid production is more widespread in bacteria than previously thought and identifies two pathways for their production in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron B theta Inositol lipids...
Welter et al 8217 s analysis of the evolutionary history of Psychrobacter is out in mSystems Her phylogenomic analysis combined with the outcome of gt 10 000 growth tests indicates that the psychrophiles in this genus are descendants of warm...
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 8211 pubished in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology <...
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...
The Otto Bayer Award came with a cartoon Thank you to the Bayer Foundation for a very nice event
...
Methanomassiliicoccales are lesser known members of the human gut archaeome that use methylated amines including trimethylamine in methane production A new study led by grad student Jacobo de la Cuesta Zuluaga and published in mSystems assessed the abundances of these...
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 8217 s work Read the announcement here https www bayer...
In this review Taichi Suzuki takes on the challenge of thinking through how the microbiome can play a role in the process of human genetic adaptation to new environments When humans spread out across the globe they encountered new diets...
Last week the institute held its annual PhD symposium online to great success Congratulations to Tanja Schön for winning Best Poster Michael Bell for winning Best Short Talk and Albane Ruaud for Runner Up in the Long Talk category The...
https www biorxiv org content 10 1101 2020 11 10 376293v1 The Archaea remain more mysterious than the Bacteria as they are comparatively under studied This is changing thanks for next generation sequencing However little is known about archaeal communities...
Here is a story of a pathobiont returning to the sea It started with polar bear feces collected off the arctic ice diversity dominated by Psychrobacter Did these ride the bear or come from the ice Find out here in...
Ruth was elected to the Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences in June The Leopoldina originated in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now has 1 600 members from almost all branches of science In 2008 the Leopoldina was...
Here Nick Youngblut uses tree based approaches for comparing human gut metagenomes This is similar to using UniFrac for 16S rRNA datasets And similarly it works really well for discerning samples by disease for instance www biorxiv org content 10...
We know from previous work that people with a lactase non persistent LNP genotype have more Bifidobacteria in their guts but what kinds Victor Schmidt and fellow post doc Hagay Enav dive into this question using samples from TwinsUK They...
This week saw the arrival of our newest addition a scimaX mass spectrometer After years of planning and a pandemic installation was completed this week by the experts at Bruker The first of its kind in Germany scimaX is a...
New on BioRxiv Nick Youngblut followed up on his recent Nature Communications publication that revealed a plethora of new microbial diversity for gut microbiomes of wild animals spanning 5 classes of vertebrates Here the whole collection of samples was shotgun...
We are pleased to see Liz Johnson and Stacey Heaver 8217 s paper on Bacteroides sphingolipids out in Nature Communications https www nature com articles s41467 020 16274 w And if you 8217 d like to read more see the...
A big congratulations to Stacey Heaver who successfully defended her PhD this week It certainly was an affair to remember with COVID 19 forcing the seminar to be held via video conference with participants taking part from all corners of...
Congratulations are in order for Claudia Frick who is the recipient of a CMFI Young Investigator 8217 s Grant Claudia is a senior postdoc in the Ley Lab and investigates the role of sphingolipids in bacteria host interaction This award...
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...
This week saw our newest pre print arrive on bioRxiv Postdoc Stacey Heaver shows that inositol lipid production is more widespread in bacteria than previously thought and identifies two pathways for their production in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron B theta Inositol lipids...
Welter et al 8217 s analysis of the evolutionary history of Psychrobacter is out in mSystems Her phylogenomic analysis combined with the outcome of gt 10 000 growth tests indicates that the psychrophiles in this genus are descendants of warm...
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 8211 pubished in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology <...
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...
The Otto Bayer Award came with a cartoon Thank you to the Bayer Foundation for a very nice event
...
Methanomassiliicoccales are lesser known members of the human gut archaeome that use methylated amines including trimethylamine in methane production A new study led by grad student Jacobo de la Cuesta Zuluaga and published in mSystems assessed the abundances of these...
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 8217 s work Read the announcement here https www bayer...
In this review Taichi Suzuki takes on the challenge of thinking through how the microbiome can play a role in the process of human genetic adaptation to new environments When humans spread out across the globe they encountered new diets...
Last week the institute held its annual PhD symposium online to great success Congratulations to Tanja Schön for winning Best Poster Michael Bell for winning Best Short Talk and Albane Ruaud for Runner Up in the Long Talk category The...
https www biorxiv org content 10 1101 2020 11 10 376293v1 The Archaea remain more mysterious than the Bacteria as they are comparatively under studied This is changing thanks for next generation sequencing However little is known about archaeal communities...
Here is a story of a pathobiont returning to the sea It started with polar bear feces collected off the arctic ice diversity dominated by Psychrobacter Did these ride the bear or come from the ice Find out here in...
Ruth was elected to the Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences in June The Leopoldina originated in 1652 as a classical scholarly society and now has 1 600 members from almost all branches of science In 2008 the Leopoldina was...
Here Nick Youngblut uses tree based approaches for comparing human gut metagenomes This is similar to using UniFrac for 16S rRNA datasets And similarly it works really well for discerning samples by disease for instance www biorxiv org content 10...
We know from previous work that people with a lactase non persistent LNP genotype have more Bifidobacteria in their guts but what kinds Victor Schmidt and fellow post doc Hagay Enav dive into this question using samples from TwinsUK They...
This week saw the arrival of our newest addition a scimaX mass spectrometer After years of planning and a pandemic installation was completed this week by the experts at Bruker The first of its kind in Germany scimaX is a...
New on BioRxiv Nick Youngblut followed up on his recent Nature Communications publication that revealed a plethora of new microbial diversity for gut microbiomes of wild animals spanning 5 classes of vertebrates Here the whole collection of samples was shotgun...
We are pleased to see Liz Johnson and Stacey Heaver 8217 s paper on Bacteroides sphingolipids out in Nature Communications https www nature com articles s41467 020 16274 w And if you 8217 d like to read more see the...
A big congratulations to Stacey Heaver who successfully defended her PhD this week It certainly was an affair to remember with COVID 19 forcing the seminar to be held via video conference with participants taking part from all corners of...
Congratulations are in order for Claudia Frick who is the recipient of a CMFI Young Investigator 8217 s Grant Claudia is a senior postdoc in the Ley Lab and investigates the role of sphingolipids in bacteria host interaction This award...