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 use genome-capture...
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’s paper on Bacteroides sphingolipids out in Nature Communications! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16274-w And if you’d like to read more, see the “Behind the paper” blog here: go.nature.com/3fpjUjM
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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 the...
Congratulations are in order for Claudia Frick, who is the recipient of a CMFI Young Investigator’s Grant! Claudia is a senior postdoc in the Ley Lab and investigates the role of sphingolipids in bacteria-host interaction. This award will assist her...
Yesterday afternoon, we had a toast for Priyanka, a reasearch technician who is leaving the lab in a few days. All the best to her. And of course we were happy to say good bye to 2019 and eager for...
Today our new pre-print was published on bioRxiv! Shining a spotlight on two of our favorite bugs, we show that co-occurence of Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter in the gut is driven by hydrogen production. Both the bacterial Christensenellaceae family and the...
2019 is comming to an end, but the holidays are not the only reason to celebrate in the Ley Lab; we close the year with three new publicatons! First, a literature review of one of our favorite taxa, the family...
Liam Fitzstevens, a PhD student in our lab, yesterday took home the Best Poster Award at the PhD Symposium organized by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. He is researching how human gut microbiota is transferred between parent and...
We are proud to annouce the two latest preprints from the Ley Lab, this time courtesy of the bioinformatics arm of the lab, which created two tools for the analysis of sequnece data from metagenomes. The first one, DeepMAsED, was...
The Mey Generalbau Triathlon recently coursed through the heart of Tübingen drawing thousands of participants from near and far. The Ley and Angenent Labs were well-represented, with the most athletically-inclined joining forces to form “Team Microtriome”. From the Ley Lab,...
We are very happy to announce that Professor Ruth Ley is now an elected EMBO Member! Ruth joins a league of more than 1800 researchers around the world who have been recognized for their research excellence and outstanding contribution to...
It is our great pleasure to report that Zach Henseler graduated on the weekend with his PhD! Zach and Ruth attended the Commencement Ceremony at Cornell where Zach was awarded his degree in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology. This...
Our new preprint was released today on bioRxiv! Interactions between the gut microbiome and mucosal immunoglobulins A, M and G in the developing infant gut1 utilized the TEDDY study cohort2 to investigate antibody dynamics during infancy. By measuring the profiles...
Congratulations to Ley Lab Group Leader, Nicholas Youngblut, and Postdoc William Walters, who saw their research on the vertebrate microbiome published today in Nature Communications! This publication will be the first of several based on this dataset and is a...
Our paper on age- and sex-dependent microbial diversity is out! Titled Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults, this work was a collaborative effort between the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, the University of California...
Our recent Cell Host & Microbe paper, relating human salivary amylase (AMY1) gene copy number to microbiome diversity, is being featured across the internet. So far, it has been highlighted by the PLoS Microbiome channel, the Gut Microbiota For Health...
Congratulations to Stacey Heaver who won a Travel Award for her “Poster Flash-Talk” at the recent FEBS Sphingolipid Biology conference in Cascais, Portugal. Stacey was there showcasing her research on host sphingolipid compensation by gut-associated Bacteroides.
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The last issue of Cell Host and Microbe is dedicated to phages and includes our study on viruses in the human gut. This paper shows how we examined viromes of monozygotic twins to ask whether virome diversity relates to microbiome...
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 use genome-capture...
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’s paper on Bacteroides sphingolipids out in Nature Communications! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16274-w And if you’d like to read more, see the “Behind the paper” blog here: go.nature.com/3fpjUjM
... 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 the...
Congratulations are in order for Claudia Frick, who is the recipient of a CMFI Young Investigator’s Grant! Claudia is a senior postdoc in the Ley Lab and investigates the role of sphingolipids in bacteria-host interaction. This award will assist her...
Yesterday afternoon, we had a toast for Priyanka, a reasearch technician who is leaving the lab in a few days. All the best to her. And of course we were happy to say good bye to 2019 and eager for...
Today our new pre-print was published on bioRxiv! Shining a spotlight on two of our favorite bugs, we show that co-occurence of Christensenella and Methanobrevibacter in the gut is driven by hydrogen production. Both the bacterial Christensenellaceae family and the...
2019 is comming to an end, but the holidays are not the only reason to celebrate in the Ley Lab; we close the year with three new publicatons! First, a literature review of one of our favorite taxa, the family...
Liam Fitzstevens, a PhD student in our lab, yesterday took home the Best Poster Award at the PhD Symposium organized by the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology. He is researching how human gut microbiota is transferred between parent and...
We are proud to annouce the two latest preprints from the Ley Lab, this time courtesy of the bioinformatics arm of the lab, which created two tools for the analysis of sequnece data from metagenomes. The first one, DeepMAsED, was...
The Mey Generalbau Triathlon recently coursed through the heart of Tübingen drawing thousands of participants from near and far. The Ley and Angenent Labs were well-represented, with the most athletically-inclined joining forces to form “Team Microtriome”. From the Ley Lab,...
We are very happy to announce that Professor Ruth Ley is now an elected EMBO Member! Ruth joins a league of more than 1800 researchers around the world who have been recognized for their research excellence and outstanding contribution to...
It is our great pleasure to report that Zach Henseler graduated on the weekend with his PhD! Zach and Ruth attended the Commencement Ceremony at Cornell where Zach was awarded his degree in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology. This...
Our new preprint was released today on bioRxiv! Interactions between the gut microbiome and mucosal immunoglobulins A, M and G in the developing infant gut1 utilized the TEDDY study cohort2 to investigate antibody dynamics during infancy. By measuring the profiles...
Congratulations to Ley Lab Group Leader, Nicholas Youngblut, and Postdoc William Walters, who saw their research on the vertebrate microbiome published today in Nature Communications! This publication will be the first of several based on this dataset and is a...
Our paper on age- and sex-dependent microbial diversity is out! Titled Age- and Sex-Dependent Patterns of Gut Microbial Diversity in Human Adults, this work was a collaborative effort between the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, the University of California...
Our recent Cell Host & Microbe paper, relating human salivary amylase (AMY1) gene copy number to microbiome diversity, is being featured across the internet. So far, it has been highlighted by the PLoS Microbiome channel, the Gut Microbiota For Health...
Congratulations to Stacey Heaver who won a Travel Award for her “Poster Flash-Talk” at the recent FEBS Sphingolipid Biology conference in Cascais, Portugal. Stacey was there showcasing her research on host sphingolipid compensation by gut-associated Bacteroides.
... The last issue of Cell Host and Microbe is dedicated to phages and includes our study on viruses in the human gut. This paper shows how we examined viromes of monozygotic twins to ask whether virome diversity relates to microbiome...