This presentation provides a general status update on my PhD and highlights the main projects I have been working on. It includes my outreach activities with Science Girls, an organisation in Lyngby for girls aged 13 to 18, where I have been invited to present three times. Here, I talked about my research and developed a "Solve the DNA Mystery" setup to let the girls experience through exercises and games how frontline diagnostics using metagenomics works.
Additionally, the presentation includes an update on the now-published manuscript on frontline metagenomics for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases.
The main part of the presentation focuses on my project on the gut microbiome of wild Tanzanian chimpanzees, including how their microbiomes functionally adapt to seasonal changes in their diets, as well as how we observe local diversification of bacterial taxa across locations within the Greater Mahale Ecosystem.
Lastly, the presentation addresses the reference genome problem we have experienced when trying to characterise the gut microbiomes of different hosts in sub-Saharan Africa.
Emilie Egholm Bruun Jensen’s presentation
