👨🔬 Predoctoral Fellow at @EMBL.org in the @borklab.bsky.social.
💻🧬 Using data science to analyze big bio-data.
🇪🇺 Part of the @embltrec.bsky.social expedition and interested in 🦠 (metaG)
MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠
Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integrating metagenomics data with spatiotemporal modelling expertise, this was a highly collaborative effort (we hit the Google Docs comment limit a while ago 😅) between 3 research groups (@borklab.bsky.social, @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social, and Gruber/Vogt), co-led by Dominic Eriksson & myself.
MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for
truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages
across diverse environments, co...
I am deeply grateful for Peer's mentorship on this project and throughout my PhD, and I will strive to pursue research in his spirit.
Here, we highlight that LDGs are not uniform across marine prokaryotes. While some microbial groups exhibit diversity peaks in nutrient-poor equatorial regions, others reach their highest diversity at nutrient-rich subtropical fronts, and some even exhibit peak diversity in polar regions. 📉📈
These contrasting diversity patterns likely reflect that different microbial groups respond differently to ecological and environmental conditions. Consequently, the biodiversity of individual microbial groups should be considered when forecasting the effects of climate change on marine microbes.
Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs), typically characterized by high diversity near the equator and decreasing diversity towards the poles, are found across 🌱🐨🦠. Yet, their underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
Lukas Malfertheiner
Jonas Schiller
Never thought I'd co-first author a paper that appears on the screens on campus, that makes me very happy😃
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Check out the paper and get amazing summaries from the EMBL communications team and a thread by @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social
Our new paper „Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome“ was just published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🥳
We present a global analysis of prokaryotic #biodiversity in the surface and mesopelagic layers of the ocean 🦠🌊
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
New in @natgenet.nature.com: a moving obituary for Peer.
Francesca Ciccarelli, Jan Korbel & Christian von Mering reflect on his scientific vision, from protein domains and genome evolution to metagenomics, and on his generosity as a mentor and friend to so many.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Jonas Schiller
Jonas Schiller
Our work exploring host-microbial co-metabolism of bile acids in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) has been published in the JHEP Reports:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🪐 A big thank you to everyone involved, to the GALAXY and MicrobLiver consortia who made this possible! 🙌
Jonas Schiller
Jonas Schiller
Eriksson et al. conduct a global marine microbiome diversity analysis and demonstrate
how the surface ocean latitudinal diversity gradient is disproportionately shaped
by a few species-rich taxa. Mask...
Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters gut microbial communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) causing half of all liver-relat…
