What we do
We are interested in studying ecological and evolutionary factors that determine the structure, function and diversity of microbial communities – with a focus on the ocean ecosystem and the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans. To this end, we develop and combine bioinformatic and experimental approaches to integrate quantitative ‘meta-omics’ readouts with contextual information, with the goal to better understand and predict the role of environmental microorganisms and the underlying mechanisms of host-microbial homeostasis.
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Publications 2021
- Zünd M et al.
High throughput sequencing provides exact genomic locations of inducible prophages and accurate phage-to-host ratios in gut microbial strains
Microbiome, 10.1186/s40168-021-01033-w - Salazar G et al.
mTAGs: taxonomic profiling using degenerate consensus reference sequences of ribosomal RNA genes
Bioinformatics, 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab465 - Ruscheweyh HJ et al.
mOTUs: profiling taxonomic composition, transcriptional activity and strain populations of microbial communities
Curr Protoc, 10.1002/cpz1.218
