Department of Microbiome Science

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

Karin Klein

Administrative Assistant

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Ursula Schach

Laboratory Coordinator

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Annkatrin Geysel

Scientific Facility Leader

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Heike Budde

Scientific Coordinator

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Group Leaders

James Marsh,
Ph.D.

Project Leader

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Dr. Alexander Tyakht

Project Leader
Microbiome Informatics

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Post-Docs

Sara Clasen

Flagellin-TLR5 interactions

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Hagay Enav

The gut microbiome in infant development and health

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Stacey Heaver

PhD 2020 in the lab

Lipid metabolism in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

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Kelsey Huus

Temperature and the microbiome

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Xiaoying Liu

Microbiome in lactose tolerace

Jaime Moreno

The human gut virome

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Ronald Keller

Microbiome sciences

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William "Tony" Walters

Microbiome community dynamics

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Doctoral Students

Andrea Borbon

TLR5-flagellin interactions in primates

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Christian Kirk

Microbiome engineering

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Liam Fitzstevens

Microbial strain sharing in human populations

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Yihua Liu

Evolution of Methanobrevibacter smithii

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Guillermo Luque

Outer-membrane vesicle cargo in bacterial communication

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Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese

Methanobrevibacter diversity in non-Western gut microbiomes

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Meghna Chatterjee

Microbiome engineering

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Tanja Schön

Microbial ecology of Christensenella minuta

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Michael Bell

Structure-function relationships in flagellin-TLR5

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Students and Visitors

Prof. Dr. Amy Buck

Max Planck Sabbatical Professor

Reader, University of Edinburgh

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Prof. Alejandro Reyes Muñoz, Ph.D.

MPI Tandem Group Leader -
Universidad de los Andes

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Laura Karas

Student (HiWi)

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Xiaochen Du

Visiting Student, University of Edinburgh

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Alina Prokipchuk

Student (HiWi)

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Jean Marie Bayhurst

Student (HiWi)

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Zoi Pfarr

Internship student

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Miriam Haag

Master Student

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Simona Laugner

Bachelor Student

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Research Support Staff

Silke Dauser

Research Technician

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Inbal Paz

Computational Support

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Iris Holdermann

Research Technician

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Dennis Jakob

Research Technician

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Stephen Loum

Research Technician

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Sophie Maisch

Research Technician

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Matthias Neuscheler

Research Technician

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Julia Leibßle

Research Technician

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Carolina Nishi

Research Technician

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Clara Worgall

Research Technician

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Jan P. Kisker

Research Technician

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Building Staff

Natia Okropiridou

Custodian

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Katharina Vernali

Custodian

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Ley Lab Alumni