‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Lisa Maier and Nassos Typas

On Wednesday, 12.02.2025 at 15:30, we will have two speakers for our ‘Gut, Liver and Friends‘ seminar: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Lisa Maier and Dr. Nassos Typas.

Lisa Maier is a Professor for Microbiome-Host-Interactions at the University of Tübingen. Her lab investigates how medicinal drugs from various therapeutic classes interact with gut microbes and their downstream effects on host physiology. To do this, she uses high-throughput methods to study drug effects in pure cultures, as well as in both defined and complex microbial communities. These studies are then complemented by experiments in gnotobiotic animal models.

Her talk will be entitled:

“(Unintentionally) Drugging the Gut Microbiome: Consequences for Microbes, Microbial Communities, and the Host”.

Nassos Typas is a trained biochemist, molecular microbiologist, and systems biologist. He did his undergraduate studies in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, his PhD at the Free University of Berlin with Regine Hengge and his postdoctoral research at University of California at San Francisco with Carol Gross. Since 2011 he has been running his own group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) at Heidelberg, and since 2024 he is heading the new Unit/Department of Molecular Systems Biology. His lab develops systems-based quantitative approaches and combines it with mechanistic work to study how bacteria interact with the environment, the host and with each other.

His talk will be entitled:

“Emergent behaviours during drug treatment of microbial communities”.