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 pagewww.healthferm.eu
Duration: Sep 2022 - Aug 2026
People: Annina Meyer, Anna Greppi, Rodrigo Hernandez Velazquez
MicroTerroir: critically evaluating multi-kingdom microbial involvement in phenotypic plasticity of Vitis vinifera (grapevine)
Funders: SNSF
Website: external pagewww.data.snf.ch/grants/grant/204275
Duration: 2021 October - 2025 September
People: Lena Flörl, Maria Paula Rueda Mejia
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)
Microbiota Vault
Funders: external pageGebert Rüf Stiftung, external pageOak Foundation, external pageThe Rockefeller Foundation
Website: external pagewww.microbiotavault.org
Duration: November 2020 to June 2024
People: Anton Lavrinienko
Collaborators: Pascale Vonaesch (University of Lausanne), Adrian Egli (University of Zurich)
Harnessing gut microbiome metabolism for personalized treatment of lymphoma and leukemia
Website: www.lymphomachallenge.ethz.ch
Duration: 2024 January - 2026
People: Jorge Peña
Collaborators: Shana Sturla (ETH Zürich) and Jörg Halter (University Hospital Basel)
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 pagewww.sfa-phrt.ch
Duration: 2021 October - 2024 September
People: Lina Kim
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 pagewww.chanzuckerberg.com
Duration: 2022 November - 2024 October
People: Michal Ziemski, Zuzana Sebechlebska, Vinzent Risch
Collaborators: Greg Caporaso (NAU)