A. Murat Eren

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A. Murat Eren (Meren)
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Born1980 (age 4445)
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.

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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]

Example of Anvi'o software output Example of Anvi'o software output.png
Example of Anvi’o software output

Selected publications

Awards and honors

References

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  3. Eren, Ahmet Murat (May 2011). Assessing Microbial Diversity Through Nucleotide Variation (PhD dissertation). University of New Orleans.
  4. 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". Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4 (12): 1111–1119. Bibcode:2013MEcEv...4.1111E. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12114. ISSN   2041-210X. PMC   3864673 . PMID   24358444.
  5. 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". PLOS ONE. 6 (10): e26732. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626732E. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026732 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3201972 . PMID   22046340.
  6. 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 . PMC   4104879 . PMID   24965363.
  7. Zimmer, Carl (25 June 2014). "The Zoo In the Mouth". Science. Archived from the original on August 4, 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  8. "Sewage provides insight into human microbiome". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  9. 1 2 "A. Murat Eren". www.mbl.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  10. Lee, Sonny T. M.; Kahn, Stacy A.; Delmont, Tom O.; Shaiber, Alon; Esen, Özcan C.; Hubert, Nathaniel A.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Antonopoulos, Dionysios A.; Rubin, David T.; Eren, A. Murat (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. PMC   5418705 . PMID   28473000.
  11. Lim, Joseph (July 10, 2021). "Microbe communities". www.panaynews.net. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  12. Shaiber, Alon; Willis, Amy D.; Delmont, Tom O.; Roux, Simon; Chen, Lin-Xing; Schmid, Abigail C.; Yousef, Mahmoud; Watson, Andrea R.; Lolans, Karen; Esen, Özcan C.; Lee, Sonny T. M.; Downey, Nora; Morrison, Hilary G.; Dewhirst, Floyd E.; Mark Welch, Jessica L.; Eren, A. Murat (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. PMC   7739484 . PMID   33323122.
  13. "Large-scale study indicates novel, abundant nitrogen-fixing microbes in surface ocean". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
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  15. "Anvi'o dot org". Anvi'o dot org. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  16. Eren, A. Murat; Kiefl, Evan; Shaiber, Alon; Veseli, Iva; Miller, Samuel E.; Schechter, Matthew S.; Fink, Isaac; Pan, Jessica N.; Yousef, Mahmoud; Fogarty, Emily C.; Trigodet, Florian (2021). "Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi'o". Nature Microbiology. 6 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1038/s41564-020-00834-3. ISSN   2058-5276. PMC   8116326 . PMID   33349678.
  17. "Three University of Chicago scientists named 2020 Sloan Fellows | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  18. "A. Murat Eren Awarded 2021 American Society for Microbiology Award | Microbiology". micro.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  19. https://researchparasite.com/#past-recipients