The Reinhard and Maria Teufel Stiftung recognizes outstanding PhD theses in biology. Out of 9 awards handed out this year, 2 go to former PhD students of the Max-Planck Institute for Biology. Ley lab former PhD student, Liam Fitzstevens, won...
Former Post-Doc Sara Clasen is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville! Read all about her new lab! Her research program delves into fundamental questions of microbiota-host immune interactions.
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We were happy to see Hagay Enav’s Nature Biotechnology paper introducing the use of microsynteny for strain comparisons with the development of the tool SynTracker featured in Cell Reports Methods. Peiwan Cai and Tal Koren from the Columbia University Irving...
Our very own James Marsh was quoted in the Washington Post this week in an article about engineering the gut microbiome to reduce methane emissions from cows: “James Marsh, a professor of microbiome engineering at the Max Planck Institute for...
We are happy to celebrate the graduation of our PhD student (now postdoc) Michael Bell! Michael did fantastic job defending his thesis titled ‘Investigating the Structure-Function Relationships Between Flagellins and Toll-Like Receptor 5′. All of us in the Ley Lab...
We are delighted to congratulate our PhD students and lab members for their strong presence at the 2024 PhD Symposium. The event, cohosted by the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory and the University of Tübingen,...
We are happy to announce that Hagay Enav’s powerful new tool SynTracker is now explained in a Nature Biotechnology publication. You can access the open access paper here. A “Research Briefing” explaining how the paper was conceived is here. To...
Dr. Ruth Ley, Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and the Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, is awarded the Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. Silent Flagellin in chronic inflammatory and auto-immune disease...
Congratulations to Yi-Han Tan for being selected as one of 59 Post Doctoral Researchers from 28 Nations awarded the presigious Human Frontiers of Science Program (HFSP) Fellowship for 2024. Yi-Han is from Singapore and is doing her post doc with...
Last month, we celebrated the defense of Ley Lab PhD student, now postodoc, Liam Fitzstevens! He did an amazing job defending his thesis titled ‘Human gut microbes’ transmission, persistence and contribution to lactose tolerance’, and was awarded the highest accolade...