Team

Portrait of Prof. Heyde Francielle Carmo França

Image: Heyde Francielle Carmo França

Project: Prediction of abiotic factors of bacterial habitats using machine learning techniques

Current position: Heyde is currently a professor at the Federal Institute of GoiásExternal link in the undergraduate program in Computer Science and in the postgraduate program in Agricultural Sciences. Read more about Heyde and her work here .

José Luis López

Image: José Luis López

Project: Metabolic modeling and carbon use efficiency in soils

Paper: José Luis López , Arista Fourie, Sanne WM Poppeliers  et al. (2023): Growth rate is a dominant factor predicting the rhizosphere effectExternal link .  ISME J. doi: 10.1038/s41396-023-01453-6External link

Current position: José is now a Postdoc at the VEO Group!

Susanna R. Grigson

Image: Susanna R. Grigson

Project: inferring bacteriophage functions from protein-protein interactions

Current position: Susie is a PhD student at  Flinders UniversityExternal link in Australia. Read more about Susie and her work  hereExternal link .

Dan Liu

Image: Dan Liu

Project: Predicting virus-host interactions with transitional learning

 Stage Researcher of the VIROINF ConsortiumExternal link. She is currently a PhD student in virology at MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus ResearchExternal link (UK). Her main focus is on predicting virus-host interactions using protein language models.

Daniel Garza

Image: Daniel Garza

Project: Modeling human gut bacterial life strategies

Paper: Daniel Rios Garza , Didier Gonze, Haris Zafeiropoulos, Bin Liu, Karoline Faust (2023): Metabolic models of human gut microbiota: Advances and challengesExternal link , Cell Systems Perspective Volume 14, ISSUE 2 , P109-121, doi: 10.1016/j .cels.2022.11.002External link

Current position: Daniel is a junior scientist in the INRAEExternal link PROSE External link near Paris, France. 

Cédric Lood

Image: Cédric Lood

Project: Bacterial defense systems

Paper: Dann Turner, Andre N. Shkoporov,  Cédric Lood .  et al. (2023) :  Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species namesExternal link , Arch Virol 168 , 74, doi: doi.org/10.1007/s00705-022-05694-2External link

Current position: Cédric is a postdoctoral fellow of the FWOExternal link . He is currently working at the Lab of Gene Technology, KU LeuvenExternal link (Belgium). His main focus in on phage-bacteria interactions in the clinical context of phage therapy against ESKAPE pathogens.

Adéla Finstrlova

Image: Adéla Finstrlova

Project: Phage defense systems

Papers: to be done

Current position: Adéla is working in Brno, Czechia in the  Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics of MicroorganismsExternal link as a researcher. Her main focus is on phage-host interaction, she primarily studies bacteria from genus Staphylococcus and their phages.

David Appiah

Image: Sybille Huck

Project: Collect and gather time series data from scientific publications