Benjamin Auch

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the faecal microbiomes of 23 marsupial species, revealing novel microbial genomes and highlighting the influence of host phylogeny on microbiome composition.

The paper applies Proxi-RIMS-seq2 to native microbiomes to identify m5C methylation motifs and their cognate methyltransferases, revealing over 1900 motifs including a novel 8-base recognition site.

The paper introduces a genetic barcoding method for single-cell transcriptomic studies in Drosophila to improve cell type identification and experimental tracking.

The paper identifies a Gammaproteobacterium, wb1-P19, as a methanotroph involved in carbon cycling in caves, challenging previous assumptions about its metabolic capabilities.

This study improves metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read sequencing and novel assembly methods, yielding more high-quality MAGs and uncovering uncultured diversity.

This paper describes a machine vision guided robot that automates microinjection in fruit fly and zebrafish embryos, achieving high throughput and comparable proficiency to human experts.

The paper develops a platform using proximity-ligation sequencing to reconstruct viral genomes and assign hosts from metagenomic data, showing high accuracy and efficiency.

The paper develops synthetic DNA standards to measure primer editing by proofreading polymerases and shows it can be tuned to improve microbiome profiling.

This paper introduces a low-cost, streamlined amplicon-based method for SARS-CoV-2 sequencing that is comparable to existing methods in accuracy and scalability.

This paper presents the genome of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, providing insights into its invasive success and creating a resource for invasive species research.

The paper introduces REcount, a PCR-free method for accurate quantification of engineered genetic constructs, showing it is highly accurate and reveals Illumina sequencing platform biases based on molecule length.