Einar Elvbakken Birkeland

CRISPR-Cas immune repertoires as an ecological record of bacterial interactions with mobile genetic elements in the human gut

The paper constructs a large-scale resource of bacteria-MGE interactions in the human gut microbiome using CRISPR-Cas cassettes and links them to diet and lifestyle factors.

Longitudinal analysis of the hand microbiome in response to chlorine-based antiseptic use during a military field exercise

This study examines how chlorine-based antiseptic use affects the hand microbiome during a military exercise, finding greater post-treatment microbiome differences with the antiseptic compared to alcohol-based alternatives.

Skin bacterial community dynamics of hands and forearms before and after military field exercise

This study examines how a military field exercise affects the bacterial communities on soldiers' hands and forearms, finding site-specific changes in diversity and composition.

VirMake: a flexible and user-friendly pipeline for viral taxonomic and functional characterisation from shotgun metagenomic sequencing data

VirMake processes shotgun metagenomic data to identify and characterize viral taxa and functions, showing variability in viral genome richness and taxonomy across environments and protocols.