09.04.2025
🎓 Big milestone for our lab — our very first PhD is finished! Huge congratulations to Anne for an incredibly impressive piece of work. We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. đź’«Â
13.11.2024
Over the moon to be named among the Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire!
A heartfelt thank you to my former and current lab members, mentors, collaborators, and friends – you are my daily inspiration!
You can find my profile here.
If you would like to read the profiles of other inspiring scientists, you can find the entire collection here!
13.07.2024
The Maier lab contributes to the German TV show: “Gut zu wissen“
in German only
05.06.2024
Nermin wins best poster award at the joint DGHM/ VAAM Annual Conference 2024.
Congrats, Nermin!
12.06.2024
Lara receives the best talk award for her presentation at the 6th International Summer School “Microbes, Host and Infections”.
Well done, Lara!
26.03.2024
The DFG establishes a priority programme to elucidate genes functions in the human gut microbiome.
We are delighted to be coordinating this programme together with Bärbel Stecher, Nassos Typas and Jörg Vogel.
credit: Leon Kokkoliadis
13.12.2023
Behind the Paper
Blogpost written by doctoral researcher Patrick MĂĽller on our recent Nature Protocol publication. Here you can get a real insight into our daily work.
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08.12.2023
Mikrobiom – SchlĂĽssel zur Gesundheit?
Together with Christoph Stein-Thöringer in the German science TV show Planet Wissen.
15.10.2023
Welche Funkktion hat das Darmmikrobiom – und wie halte ich es gesund?Â
Our work was featured in “Apotheken-Umschau”.
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11.09.2023
TĂĽbingen – Das Kaff mit den Weltstars der Medizin
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PhD Student Melanie Brauny contributed to this awesome video!
11.09.2023
Have you ever wondered why the Maier lab is interested in colonisation resistance?
Find the answer in this PLOS Biologue Blogpost.
01.05.2023
“The Inside Story on Microorganisms”
An excellent summary of the research in our lab by Tilman Wörtz, published in the magazine attempto!.
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30.11.2022
Early Christmas Dinner…
…and joint visit to the TĂĽbingen chocolate market.
We celebrate very successful and eventful year full of exciting research results, great conferences and meetings, and amazing collaborations.
Many thanks to the entire team and our collaborators!
22.10.2022
Lisa is among this year’s ERC Starting Grant awardees
In our project “gutMAP”, we aim to investigate the influence of the gut microbiome on the effect of psychotropic drugs. The project is funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) with a total of about 1.5 million euros
© Leon Kokkoliadis / Cluster of Excellence CMFI
01.04.2022
Our junior research group is growing into a full professorship!
Lisa got promoted to full professor for Microbiome-Host-Interactions at the Medical Faculty of the University of TĂĽbingen! What a fantastic opportunity to expand our research, our team and our mission!
20.01.2022
New board game: Antibio`taktik!
The board game “Antiobio`taktik” is intended to raise awareness of the problem of antibiotic resistance. It was co-developed by our team member Nalini and is now available in German and French. Contact us if you are interested.
14.12.2021
Article about our work in Laborjournal
Larissa Tetsch summarized our work for the broader audience in Laborjournal, a German magazine aimed at scientific and technical staff in biological and medical laboratories (in German).
13.10.2021
Deciphering the collateral damage of antibiotics on human gut commensals
Press release highlighting our 2021 study.
01.09.2021
Our work is featured in the podcast series “Exzellent erklärt! – Spitzenforschung fĂĽr alle”
In the podcast series, the interdiscplinary work of each of the 57 German Cluster of Excellence is highlighted. For the episode on the Cluster “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”, Lisa was interviewed by the podcaster Larissa Vassilian.
19.03.2018
Non-Antibiotic Drugs Affect our Gut Bacteria
e-learning video showcasing the idea, approach and results of our 2018 study on the extensive effect of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria.