Biography:A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren (Meren) | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 44–45) |
| Alma mater | University of New Orleans |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Microbial ecology, Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | Marine Biological Laboratory, and University of Chicago. |
| Thesis | Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Ferris |
| Other academic advisors | Mitchell Sogin |
| Website | https://meren.org |
A. Murat Eren (Meren) is a computer scientist known for his work on microbial ecology and developing novel, open-source, computational tools for analysis of large data sets.
Early life and education
Eren grew up in the Barhal Valley in Turkey and studied cryptography as an undergraduate at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Universitesi[1] where he earned a B.S. in 2002.[2] He moved to the United States and started his Ph.D. at the University of New Orleans. While working at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans, Eren was introduced to microbiology by Michael Ferris. In 2011 Eren completed his Ph.D.; his dissertation was titled Assessing microbial diversity through nucleotide variation.[3]
Career and research
Eren's Ph.D. research involved developing oligotyping,[4] a computational method to examine the diversity of microorganisms within high throughput sequencing datasets. Following his Ph.D., Eren joined the Marine Biological Laboratory as a postdoctoral scientist, during which he applied oligotyping to microbes that live in the human genitourinary tract,[5] oral cavity,[6][7] and sewage.[8] In 2015 he joined the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor,[9] where he started using metagenomics to investigate the ecology and evolution of microbes found in the human gut,[10] human mouth,[11][12] and surface ocean.[13] In 2022, Eren was appointed Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.[14]
Eren is an advocate of open-source software[9] and leads the community development of anvi'o,[15] a platform to allow analysis and visualization of large datasets.[16]
Selected publications
- Eren, A. Murat; Esen, Özcan C.; Quince, Christopher; Vineis, Joseph H.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Sogin, Mitchell L.; Delmont, Tom O. (8 October 2015). "Anvi'o: an advanced analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data" (in en). PeerJ 3: e1319. doi:10.7717/peerj.1319. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 26500826. PMC 4614810. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1319.
- Eren, A. Murat; Maignien, Loïs; Sul, Woo Jun; Murphy, Leslie G.; Grim, Sharon L.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Sogin, Mitchell L. (2013). "Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data" (in en). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (12): 1111–1119. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12114. ISSN 2041-210X. PMID 24358444. PMC 3864673. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12114.
- Eren, A. Murat; Zozaya, Marcela; Taylor, Christopher M.; Dowd, Scot E.; Martin, David H.; Ferris, Michael J. (25 October 2011). "Exploring the Diversity of Gardnerella vaginalis in the Genitourinary Tract Microbiota of Monogamous Couples Through Subtle Nucleotide Variation" (in en). PLOS ONE 6 (10): e26732. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026732. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 22046340. Bibcode: 2011PLoSO...626732E.
- Eren, A. Murat; Morrison, Hilary G.; Lescault, Pamela J.; Reveillaud, Julie; Vineis, Joseph H.; Sogin, Mitchell L. (April 2015). "Minimum entropy decomposition: Unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences" (in en). The ISME Journal 9 (4): 968–979. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.195. ISSN 1751-7370. PMID 25325381. PMC 4817710. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2014.195.
Awards and honors
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in Ocean Sciences (2020)[17]
- American Society for Microbiology Award for Early Career Environmental Research (2020)[18]
References
- ↑ Tarcy, Brian (2014-02-22). "A. Murat Eren, The Question-Authority Shepherd At MBL– A Scientist's Unique Story" (in en-US). https://capecodwave.com/a-murat-eren-the-question-authority-shepherd-at-mbl-a-scientists-unique-story/.
- ↑ "A. Murat Eren (Meren), Ph.D." (in en). https://asm.org/Biographies/A-Murat-Eren.
- ↑ Eren, Ahmet Murat (May 2011). Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation (PhD dissertation). University of New Orleans.
- ↑ Eren, A. Murat; Maignien, Loïs; Sul, Woo Jun; Murphy, Leslie G.; Grim, Sharon L.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Sogin, Mitchell L. (2013). "Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data" (in en). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4 (12): 1111–1119. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12114. ISSN 2041-210X. PMID 24358444.
- ↑ Eren, A. Murat; Zozaya, Marcela; Taylor, Christopher M.; Dowd, Scot E.; Martin, David H.; Ferris, Michael J. (2011-10-25). "Exploring the Diversity of Gardnerella vaginalis in the Genitourinary Tract Microbiota of Monogamous Couples Through Subtle Nucleotide Variation" (in en). PLOS ONE 6 (10): e26732. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026732. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 22046340. Bibcode: 2011PLoSO...626732E.
- ↑ Eren, A. Murat; Borisy, Gary G.; Huse, Susan M.; Mark Welch, Jessica L. (15 July 2014). "Oligotyping analysis of the human oral microbiome". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (28): E2875–E2884. doi:10.1073/pnas.1409644111. PMID 24965363.
- ↑ Zimmer, Carl (25 June 2014). "The Zoo In the Mouth" (in en). Science. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-zoo-in-the-mouth.
- ↑ "Sewage provides insight into human microbiome" (in en). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150225210115.htm.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "A. Murat Eren". https://www.mbl.edu/research/mbl-fellows/a-murat-eren/.
- ↑ Lee, Sonny T. M.; Kahn, Stacy A.; Delmont, Tom O.; Shaiber, Alon; Esen, Özcan C.; Hubert, Nathaniel A.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Antonopoulos, Dionysios A. et al. (2017-05-04). "Tracking microbial colonization in fecal microbiota transplantation experiments via genome-resolved metagenomics". Microbiome 5 (1): 50. doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0270-x. ISSN 2049-2618. PMID 28473000. PMC 5418705. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0270-x.
- ↑ Lim, Joseph (July 10, 2021). "Microbe communities". www.panaynews.net. https://www.panaynews.net/microbe-communities/.
- ↑ Shaiber, Alon; Willis, Amy D.; Delmont, Tom O.; Roux, Simon; Chen, Lin-Xing; Schmid, Abigail C.; Yousef, Mahmoud; Watson, Andrea R. et al. (16 December 2020). "Functional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome". Genome Biology 21 (1): 292. doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02195-w. ISSN 1474-760X. PMID 33323122. PMC 7739484. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02195-w.
- ↑ "Large-scale study indicates novel, abundant nitrogen-fixing microbes in surface ocean" (in en). EurekAlert!. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/571865.
- ↑ "A. Murat Eren" (in en). https://uol.de/en/news/newly-appointed/person/a-murat-eren-5865.
- ↑ "Anvi'o dot org" (in en). https://anvio.org/.
- ↑ Eren, A. Murat; Kiefl, Evan; Shaiber, Alon; Veseli, Iva; Miller, Samuel E.; Schechter, Matthew S.; Fink, Isaac; Pan, Jessica N. et al. (2021). "Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi'o" (in en). Nature Microbiology 6 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-00834-3. ISSN 2058-5276. PMID 33349678.
- ↑ "Three University of Chicago scientists named 2020 Sloan Fellows | University of Chicago News" (in en). https://news.uchicago.edu/story/three-university-chicago-scientists-named-2020-sloan-fellows.
- ↑ "A. Murat Eren Awarded 2021 American Society for Microbiology Award | Microbiology". https://micro.uchicago.edu/news-archive/murat-eren-awarded-2021-american-society-microbiology-award.
External links
- A. Murat Eren publications indexed by Google Scholar
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