To celebrate the different roles and professional identities at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, we all participated in our first every Diversity Day! A day for us to share with each other what we do and contribute to...
Last week the lab went on its very first Stocherkahn (punting) trip together! Punting on a Stocherkahn along the Neckar river is a common activity during the summer time here in Tübingen, where you can relish in the sunshine and...
Bringing genetics to the microbiome. Group leader James Marsh and Ph.D student Christian Kirk this week saw the publication of their review in Annual Review of Microbiology: Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human...
Congratulations to Sara Clasen, Grand Prize Winner of the NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize. The NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize is awarded for the best essay submitted by young investigators in the rapidly evolving field of microbiome research. The prize...
On December 14, Leonardo Moreno successfully defended his thesis, titled “On Bioinformatics of the Human Gut,” for which he earned the distinguished Magna Cum Laude distinction. During his PhD, he correlated bacterial and viral diversity in the human gut, revealing a...
In December a portion of the lab traveled to snowy Banff, Canada to attend the Keystone Symposia Meeting “The Human Microbe: Ecology and Evolution.” Ruth presented a talk on the lab’s recent findings on silent recognition of human gut bacterial...
Our recent discovery of silent flagellin in the human gut was featured in Science Immunology: Hannah Baer, Shruti Sandilya and Theodore Steiner: Evading the Toll Booth: How “silent” flagellin may bind yet fail to activate TLR5 The nature of flagellin–Toll-like...
Here, we address the long-standing question of how benign gut microbes evade the immune system. We identified a new type of flagellin in the human gut, termed ‘silent flagellin,’ that binds to the immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 without inducing...