Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a trained molecular biologist but turned to computational biology during my Master’s. As a PostDoc in the lab, my research focuses on identifying and investigating different factors influencing human microbiomes, covering human and hominid evolution, human and microbial genetics, environmental factors and chronic inflammatory diseases – and their interactions. For this I develop computational tools and pipelines for the processing of microbiome and metagenomic data and apply biostatistical methods to multi-omics data to uncover associations.

I am a PI within the DFG-funded CRC1182, Project C5.3 investigating functional and metabolic shifts in the gut microbiome in association with global enterotypes. In additional projects within the CRC1182 I focus on the analysis of microbiomes and the influence of human genetics applying genome-wide association analyses. Within the miGut-Health consortium, I am leading the analysis of microbial changes in association with inflammatory bowel diseases across multiple international cohorts in a meta-analysis setting.

Contact: m.ruehlemann@ikmb.uni-kiel.de