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.
Structure-function relationships in flagellin-TLR5
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Andrea Borbon
Ph.D. Student
Flagellin diversity
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Anna Bryson
Ph.D. Student
Bacterial genetics
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Meghna Chatterjee
Ph.D. Student
Microbiome engineering
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Hagay Enav
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
The gut microbiome in infant development and health
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Liam Fitzstevens
Ph.D. Student
Microbial strain sharing in human populations
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Stacey Heaver
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Lipid metabolism in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
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Kelsey Huus
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Temperature and the microbiome
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Ronald Keller
, MD
Post-Doc
Cancer-microbiome links
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Christian Kirk
Ph.D. Student
Microbiome engineering
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Jan Kisker
Ph.D. Student
Microbiome engineering
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Xiaoying Liu
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Microbiome in lactose tolerance
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Yihua Liu
Ph.D. Student
Evolution of Methanobrevibacter smithii
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Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese
Ph.D. Student
Methanobrevibacter diversity in non-Western gut microbiomes
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Stelio Papadopoulos Lambidis
Ph.D. Student
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Yi-Han Tan
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
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Anastasia Tortora
Bachelor Student
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Rodica-Anita Varvara
Guest Scientist
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William “Tony” Walters
, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Microbiome community dynamics
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Heike Budde
Scientific Coordinator
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Silke Dauser
Research Technician
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Annkatrin Geysel
Scientific Facility Leader
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Iris Holdermann
, Ph.D.
Research Technician
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Dennis Jakob
Research Technician
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Karin Klein
Administrative Assistant
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Julia Leibßle
Research Technician
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Matthias Neuscheler
Research Technician
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Carolina Nishi
Research Technician
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Natia Okropiridou
Custodian
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Inbal Paz
Computational Support
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Ursula Schach
Laboratory Coordinator
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Katharina Vernali
Custodian
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Clara Worgall
Research Technician
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Project Leaders:
Claudia Mirretta Barone
(2023)
Jillian Waters
(2022)
Nicholas Youngblut
(2022)
Postdocs:
Sara Clasen
(2023)
Sofia Esquivel
(2022)
Boram Seo
(2022)
Taichi Suzuki
(2022)
Carolin Kolmeder
(2020)
Victor Schmidt
(2020)
Emily Davenport
(2019)
Elizabeth Johnson
(2018)
Sara Di Rienzi
(2017)
Angela Poole
(2017)
Julia Goodrich
(2016)
Ph.D. Students:
Guillermo Luque
(2023)
Jaime Leonardo Moreno
(2023)
Tanja Schön
(2023)
Jacobo de la Cuesta
(2022)
Albane Ruaud
(2022)
Jessica Sutter
(2022)
Daphne Welter
(2021)
Zach Henseler
(2020)
Group Members
Prof. Ruth E. Ley
, Ph.D.
Director
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.
