The Holmes Lab

GUT MICROBIOLOGY

Holmes Lab

INTEGRONS

COPPER MEMBRANE MONOOXYGENASES

• Effect of diet on gut microbes

• Impact on human health

• Why do some people lose weight and others can’t?

GUT MICROBIOLOGY

Holmes Lab

INTEGRONS

COPPER MEMBRANE MONOOXYGENASES

• Horizontal gene transfer in impacted environments

GUT MICROBIOLOGY

Holmes Lab

INTEGRONS

COPPER MEMBRANE MONOOXYGENASES

• MO activity, substrate pref.

• Applications (monitoring climate change, bioremediation)

Dr Eline Klaassens – Post Doc• Likes: Yoga• Dislikes: Traffic

#QIIME #454 sequencing #metagenomics

Team Gut

Chau Le – PhD student • Likes: Brunch• Dislikes: Mondays

#histology (staining, embedding)#microscopy

Connie Ha – PhD student • Likes: Pigs/Korean food

#mouse poo#DGGE#bioinformatics#pyrosequencing

Feyza Colakoglu – PhD student • Likes: Shopping• Dislikes: Staring at the computer

#DGGE#cell culture#culling mice

Jayden Huynh – our new Honours student! • Likes: Good Music• Dislikes: Bad Music

#bioinformatics#mice work

Colon

Cecum

Team integronMia Zeric – PhD student • Likes: Running• Dislikes: Southern hyb

#southern hyb#fosmid libraries#natural transformation

Laura Woolfenden – PhD student • Likes: Chocolate• Dislikes: Politics/absence of chocolate

#PCR of all kinds#fosmid libraries#bacterial cultivation

Team enviromental CuMMOsElissa Liew – Research Assistant• Likes: Singing• Dislikes: Spiders #gas chromatography#cloning#enrichment/isolation#bioremediation#mycobacteria

The Holmes lab, wanting obese people and the environment to be healthy...