Department of Microbiome Science, 2018
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.
The Ley lab was formerly in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Department of Microbiology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and moved to the MPI for Developmental Biology in 2016.
We are an international group of scientists. Lab members come from many countries, including the United States, Colombia, France, Israel, Australia, and of course Germany. Although the working language is English, German and many other languages are spoken at the MPI.
Ruth Ley Bio | ruth.ley (at) tuebingen.mpg.de
MPI Project Leaders and Tandem Group Leader
Post-Docs
Hagay Enav, Ph.D.
Postdoc - The gut microbiome in infant development and health
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-364
Claudia Frick, Ph.D.
Postdoc - Bacterial sphingolipids in brain development
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1465
Victor Schmidt, Ph.D.
Postdoc - Evolutionary history of Bifidobacteria
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-401
William "Tony" Walters, Ph.D.
Postdoc -
Microbiome community dynamics
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-455
James Marsh, Ph.D.
Postdoc -
Bacterial sphingolipids in host skin lipid homeostasis
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-364
Sofia Esquivel Elizondo, Ph.D.
Postdoc - with Lars Angenent
Hydrogen syntrophy in the human microbiome
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-365
Taichi Suzuki, Ph.D.
Postdoc -
Microbiome-host co-evolution in wild mouse populations
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Sara Clasen, Ph.D.
Postdoc -
Bacterial sphingolipids and host nutrient stress response
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-401
Doctoral Students
Jacobo de la Cuesta
PhD Student - Metagenomic analysis of the Colombian gut microbiome
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-455
Stacey Heaver
PhD Student - Sphingolipid metabolism in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Abiram Olivares
PhD Student: Structure-function relationships in flagellin-TLR5
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-455
Guillermo Luque
PhD Student - Outer-membrane vesicle cargo in bacterial communication
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Jessica Sutter
PhD Student - Microbial ecology of the maize rhizosphere
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-482
Daphne Welter
PhD Student - Ecology and evolution of the genus Psychrobacter
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-490
Liam Fitzstevens
PhD Student - Parent-child transmission of human gut microbiota assessed in three populations around the world
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-473
Tanja Schön
PhD Student - Microbial ecology of the keystone gut bacterium Christensenella minuta
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-1321
Michael Bell
PhD Student: Structure-function relationships in flagellin-TLR5
Email | Phone: +49 7071 601-455
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