The Sommer Lab studies the organization and dynamics of microbial communities as they relate to human health and industrial biotechnology.

We develop and apply novel technologies within the fields of systems biology, functional metagenomics, synthetic biology, lab evolution, microfluidics and microbiomics to study:

1. -Antibiotic resistance in human pathogens and microbial communities 
   

2. -Interactions between the human microbiome and its host
   

3. -Microbial conversion of biomass to value chemicals
   

4. -Biosynthetic platform strain development
   

5. -Bacterial evolution and evolutionary constraints
   

6. -Synthetic microbial communities
   

The Sommer Lab is located in the

Center for Systems Microbiology in the Department of Systems Biology at DTU in Denmark

and at the

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability in Denmark.

We are funded by:

EU FP7 health, Danish Council for Independent Research, Novo Nordisk Foundation and Lundbeck Foundation