The first WSS colloquium takes place

The first WSS colloquium takes place

Our department and the Microbiome Sciences group of Christina Warinner at the MPI-EVA hosted the first colloquium within the funding period of the Werner-Siemens-Stiftung (WSS) under the theme “Microbiome functional evolution: past to present”. The...
We welcome our new lab member Rupali

We welcome our new lab member Rupali

Rupali Sathe joined our group in March 2023 as a postdoc for a joint project from the Excellence Cluster “Balance of the Microverse” to investigate metabolic and ecological interactions of bacteria that inhabit microplastic. Find out more at Rupali’s...
First tagged release of bioinformatics pipeline

First tagged release of bioinformatics pipeline

Big day for the developers of the bioinformatics pipeline in the Stallforth lab: The nextflow pipeline nf-core/funcscan – developed since late 2021 – got its first tagged release! The pipeline will enable us (and others) to efficiently and reproducibly identify...
We welcome our new lab member Annett

We welcome our new lab member Annett

As additional support in our team, Annett Fischer joined the group. An engineer and physicist by background, Annett’s interests expand into the fields of communication and text handling. She is looking forward to new challenges and started as a team assistant. Find...
Keanu Reeves – the molecule

Keanu Reeves – the molecule

Our latest paper in JACS got world wide media attention. The New York Times and the Washington Post each wrote a piece about our latest scientific findings. In addition, the publication with the title “Ecological Niche-Inspired Genome Mining Leads to the...
We welcome our new lab member Ying

We welcome our new lab member Ying

Just in the new year, Ying Huang joined the Stallforth lab! She completed her PhD in 2022 and joined our group now as a postdoc to work on projects in the framework of the FSU Jena Excellence Cluster “Balance of the Microverse”. Find out more at...