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16. August 2023

The highly variable methylome of the gastric cancer bacterium Helicobacter pylori

In a new publication in the renowned journal “Communications Biology”, a team of scientists from the Max von Pettenkofer Institute led by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Suerbaum and Dr. Florent Ailloud has investigated the evolution and diversity of the methylome of Helicobacter pylori. Of all pathogenic bacteria, H. pylori is the one with the largest number […]

14. August 2023

The complex ecology of the gut microbiome

In a recent publication (first author Anna S. Weiss), a team led by Prof. Dr Bärbel Stecher from the Max von Pettenkofer Institute was able to show, using a synthetic bacterial community in the intestines of mice, that the ecology of the intestinal microbiome is influenced by both environmental factors (e.g. diet) and host determinants. […]

12. June 2023

New publication on the behaviour of the gut microbiome during repeated antibiotic therapy

Under the leadership of DZIF scientists Prof. Dr Bärbel Stecher (Max von Pettenkofer Institute) and Prof. Dr Alice McHardy (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research), international research has shown that evolutionary mechanisms contribute to the resilience of the microbial community after repeated antibiotic administration. The research results were presented in the renowned scientific journal Cell Host […]

30. May 2023

Announcement of the Pettenkofer Award 2023

The Pettenkofer Foundation, which has legal capacity and is administered by the Foundation Administration of the City of Munich, awards a research prize of 5,000 euros for outstanding scientific work on the following topic The intestinal microbiome – from innovative functional analysis to interventions Up to three outstanding papers published in the years 2020-2023 can […]