Florian Krüger

New PhD position in our lab: Modelling the Gut-Brain-Axis in menopause!

If you have any questions regarding life in the lab to a fellow PhD candidate, shoot me a message!

Science can be such a headache sometimes.

This study has hit the headlines because the authors claim that it shows that soft drinks cause people to be depressed by negatively impacting their gut microbiome.

Several BIG issues with this 1/n

Multi-omics analysis highlights the link of aging-related cognitive decline with systemic inflammation and alterations of tissue-maintenance Aging-related cognitive decline is associated with changes across different tissues and the gut microbiome, including dysfunction of the gut-brain axis. However, only few studies have linked multi-org...

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🧠 Excited to share our new preprint on molecular drivers of cognitive function in aging mice!
Led by Stefano Flor & @sciwitch.bsky.social, with the Frahm lab @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3 🌍 We're hiring! The Medical Systems Biology Lab at Kiel University @uni-kiel.de is looking for a #PostDoc in #Metabolic #Microbiome #Modeling. Join us at one of Europe’s microbiome research hubs and push the boundaries of microbiome science!
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While human understanding differs greatly from an LLM's, it’s always incomplete too. Reasoning inevitably relies on assumptions, not true understanding. So if an LLM is right more often than humans, doesn’t human judgment dictate to trust it?

Many annoying things about this post from @mattyglesias.bsky.social, but to confine myself to one: "climate change will not wipe out humanity" is not a sufficient take on climate damages. Nothing of particular substance follows from that. It doesn't settle any argument.

ngl, that must be quite hard to hear from your own dad.

A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies - Genome Biology Background In microbiome disease association studies, it is a fundamental task to test which microbes differ in their abundance between groups. Yet, consensus on suitable or optimal statistical method...

Reading "A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies" from our friends in Berlin and in Leiden

Quotes are from the paper (minor edits for space), non quoted text is me

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/3 🌍 We're hiring! The Medical Systems Biology Lab at Kiel University is looking for a passionate #PostDoc in #Metabolic #Microbiome #Modeling. Join us at one of Europe’s microbiome research hubs and push the boundaries of microbiome science! @kieluni @UKSH_KI_HL
🔗 jobs.uksh.de/job/Kiel-Pos...