Department of Microbiome Science, 2020
Prof. Ruth E. Ley, Ph.D.
Dr. Ruth Ley is the Director of the Department of Microbiome Science and a Speaker for the Cluster of Excellence "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections" at the University of Tübingen.
Ruth Ley Bio | ruth.ley (at) tuebingen.mpg.de
Group Leaders
Nicholas Youngblut, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Microbial ecology and evolution of human gut methanogens
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1348
Jillian Waters,
Ph.D.
Project Leader
Host phenotype effects of heritable microbiota
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1345
Dr. Claudia
Mirretta Barone
Project Leader
Lipids in microbiome-host interactions
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1465
Post-Docs
Stacey Heaver
PhD 2020 in the lab
Lipid metabolism in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Jacobo de la Cuesta
Metagenomic analysis of the Colombian gut microbiome
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-455
Guillermo Luque
Outer-membrane vesicle cargo in bacterial communication
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese
Methanobrevibacter diversity in non-Western gut microbiomes
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-401
Students and Visitors
Prof. Dr. Amy Buck
Max Planck Sabbatical Professor
Reader, University of Edinburgh
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-449
Research Technicians
