Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism
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☕️Malte Rühlemann
(he/him)
Postdoctoral Researcher and Project PI
Professional Summary
Malte Rühlemann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, UKSH & CAU Kiel. His research focuses on human host–microbiome systems, microbiome ecology, metagenomics, inflammatory bowel disease, and computational analysis of large-scale microbiome datasets. He is Project PI within the DFG-funded CRC1182 “Origin and Function of Metaorganisms” and leads major data processing and meta-analysis efforts in the EU-funded miGut-Health project.
Education
Dr. rer. nat. Biology
2014
2020
Kiel University, Germany
M.Sc. Medical Life Sciences
2012
2014
Kiel University, Germany
B.Sc. Life Science
2008
2011
University of Hannover, Germany
Interests
Human microbiome
Metagenomics
Host-microbiome interactions
Inflammatory bowel disease
Microbial ecology
Bioinformatics
Large-scale microbiome meta-analysis
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Featured Publications
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Functional host-specific adaptation of the intestinal microbiome in hominids
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Recent Publications
(2025).
Industrialization drives convergent microbial and physiological shifts in the human metaorganism.
openRxiv.
(2025).
Convergent genomic responses of human gut bacteria to variations in industrialization.
bioRxiv.
(2024).
Functional host-specific adaptation of the intestinal microbiome in hominids.
Nature Communications.
(2022).
<tt>MAGScoT</tt>: a fast, lightweight and accurate bin-refinement tool.
Bioinformatics.
(2022).
Host genetic factors related to innate immunity, environmental sensing and cellular functions are associated with human skin microbiota.
Nature Communications.
(2021).
Ecology impacts the decrease of Spirochaetes and Prevotella in the fecal gut microbiota of urban humans.
BMC Microbiology.
(2021).
Primate phageomes are structured by superhost phylogeny and environment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(2021).
Genome-wide association study in 8,956 German individuals identifies influence of ABO histo-blood groups on gut microbiome.
Nature Genetics.
(2021).
Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition.
Nature Genetics.
(2020).
Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure.
New England Journal of Medicine.
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