Research Projects
HealthFerm: Plant-based foods for healthier and more sustainable diets
Funders: European Union and Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Website: external page www.healthferm.eu
Duration: Sep 2022 - Aug 2026
NapBiome: Targeting gut microbiota and sleep rhythm to improve developmental and behavioral outcomes in early childhood
Funders: European Union and Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
Website: external page https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/10000835
Duration: Jan 2025 - Dec 2028
Collaborators: Petra Zimmermann, Salome Kurth (Université de Fribourg), Martin Stocker (Luzerner Kantonsspital)
MicroTerroir: critically evaluating multi-kingdom microbial involvement in phenotypic plasticity of Vitis vinifera (grapevine)
Funders: SNSF
Website: external page www.data.snf.ch/grants/grant/204275
Duration: 2021 October - 2025 September
Collaborators:
Dario Cantu (Department of Viticulture and Enology University of California, Davis, United States of America)
Markus Rienth (Haute École de Viticulture et Oenologie Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidental, Switzerland)
Harnessing gut microbiome metabolism for personalized treatment of lymphoma and leukemia
Website: www.lymphomachallenge.ethz.ch
Duration: 2024 January - 2026
Collaborators: Shana Sturla (ETH Zürich) and Jörg Halter (University Hospital Basel)
Completed Projects
Personalized Management in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Using Multi-omics Predictive Biomarkers and Microbial Community Modeling
Funders: Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT)
Website: external page www.sfa-phrt.ch
Duration: 2021 October - 2024 September
Collaborators: Adrian Egli (University Hospital Basel), Shana Sturla (ETH Zurich), Jörg Halter (University Hospital Basel)
Improving QIIME 2 pathogen identification and developer community tools
Funders: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Website: external page www.chanzuckerberg.com
Duration: 2022 November - 2024 October
Collaborators: Greg Caporaso (NAU)
Microbiota Vault
Funders: external page Gebert Rüf Stiftung, external page Oak Foundation, external page The Rockefeller Foundation
Website: external page www.microbiotavault.org
Duration: November 2020 to June 2024
Collaborators: Pascale Vonaesch (University of Lausanne), Adrian Egli (University of Zurich)