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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS

@microbiome.bsky.social

2.6K followers 223 following 163 posts

Director of Department of Microbiome Science at MPI Biology Tübingen Germany. Also known as Leylab.com.

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here are cool network plots where strains cluster by how similar they are and you can color the data according to your metadata (here colors are countries)

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here it’s showing where along the genome strains vary - you can check what genes are involved

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Here it’s plotting ANI against APSS so you can see how mutations vary according to changes in genome structure

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

She’s better looking than most bacteria I know

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Beneficial Microbes meeting in Amsterdam beneficialmicrobes.events/index.html just canceled Omry Koren for being Israeli. I hope you’re also canceling all the Americans too, right?

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And fever reproduces in mice colonized with microbiomes from the study participants and vaccinated the same way (mice get colder)🦠🧫

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Here is temperature by diet category after vaccine

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!! She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Does this count?

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Here it’s the brain affecting the gut microbiota- via the Brunner’s gland, which nerves stimulate to produce mucus, home for the Lactobacilli. Links physiological state to immunity. Amazing work by Ivan de Araujo and Hao Chang. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 🦠🧫@maxplanckcampus.bsky.social

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Arithmetic.

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS @microbiome.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Just 12 days until the CMFI symposium in Tübingen! Check it out at cmfi23.com - speakers include Fredrik Bäckhed, Michael Fischbach, Carmen Buchenrieser, Eric Pamer, Michael Otto, and local speakers too, such as the wonderful Lisa Maier! October 11-13 🧫🦠

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