Microbiome Center

- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Bioinformatics
- Autoantibodies

- Spaceflight, aviation and public transportation microbiology
- Touching Surface (ISS/ESA)
- Microbiome of hospital surfaces
- Microbiome and biofouling on desalination membranes
- Soil Microbiome

- Illumina MiseqTM sequencer, Nanopore Sequencer
- PCR thermocycler (Appplied Biostems Veriti, QIAamplifier 96)
- QIAQuant qPCR system
- QIAcuity digital PCR system
- Agilent Tapestation
- Data Analysis Server with 1TB main memory

- Good clinical practice (GCP)
- Project management
- Clinical trials in microbiome research

- Microbiome Diversity and Checkpoint Inhibitors (UKB) (DRKS00030723)
- Microbiome after C-Section (Kliniken der Stadt Köln (DRKS00027305)

- Clinical trial database and CSP templates
- Sampling kits

- Bioinformatics
- Data science & deep learning
- Efficient algorithms for big data analysis
- Text mining

- Early diagnosis of Parkinsons disease by microbiome analysis and speech probes
- Clustering big data
- Annotation of microbiome data by text mining

- Standardized analysis workflows for microbiome data:
- 16S/18S (Bacteria, Eukaryota)
- All variable regions (V1, V3, V4, …)
- ITS (Fungi)