Maier_Lab

Our lab is recruiting postdocs with strong expertise in molecular microbiology and/or phage biology to work on different antibiotics-related projects (more info epfl.ch/labs/upgoemans/). Please get in touch if interested (with CV and references)!

OUT NOW 💊Entacapone, a Parkinson's disease medication, sequesters iron resulting in a selective inhibition of gut microbial metabolism @MichiWagner4 @microbetracker @DOME_Vienna @JMF_Vienna @kirk3gaard @sotonbiosci nature.com/articles/s4156…

🔒 🕯️ 📖 Generating ultra-secure #passwords and understanding the destruction of religious images in modern #democracies: these are among the many topics that the 61 researchers who have been awarded an #SNSFStartingGrant 2024 will investigate. sohub.io/737e

>95% have forever chemicals #PFAS in blood. PFAS are linked to cancer, infertility, dev & immune issues. We now have a tool to sharpen to get rid of this poison of the century from body! Our preprint on PFAS bioaccumulation by human gut bacteria! 🧵(1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are excited to share our work assessing the impact of 1000+ industrial and agricultural pollutants on 22 gut microbiome species 🧪🧫🧬. A thread 🧵 @AnnaELindell @KamradStephan @kiran_r_patil @MRC_TU doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/9)

Response, resistance, and recovery of #gut #bacteria to human-targeted drug exposure. @lab_maier reviews how gut commensals respond to drug exposure, both as single organisms or as a community, with a particular focus on human-targeted drugs. cell.com/cell-host-micr…