Research Topics

Understanding the genotype to phenotype connection is one of the key open questions in biology.

Many biological and evolutionary questions are related to the structure of the protein sequence space and its partitioning into substructures…

Annoying for most of us, but dangerous or even life threatening for particular persons: infections by pathogenic bacteria are never welcome.

Although microbial communities (“microbiomes”) are central to life on earth, they largely remained terra incognita until recently. By developing a…

Life on earth has evolved for some billion years. Living organisms are found in virtually every environment, surviving and thriving in extremes of…

If all microbial life disappeared from Earth, our world would change dramatically. Microorganisms are essential for nutrient recycling, decomposing…