A. Murat Eren

A. Murat Eren is a Professor of Ecosystem Data Science at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (2015-2022) and researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory (2011-2015). His work bridges computational biology with microbial ecology, focusing on integrated 'omics approaches to study microbial lifestyles and responses to environmental change.

• Education: PhD in Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans (2011)

Research interests include marine microbial ecology, computational discovery, and environmental genomics. He leads projects on GlobDB (microbial genome dereplication), anvi'o (open-source bioinformatics), and LucaProt (AI-driven viral discovery). Recent work spans metagenome assembly errors, microbiome interaction networks, and plasmid dynamics in polar regions.

His lab trains postdoctoral researchers like Iva Veseli (C-CoMP fellow) and Florian Trigodet (metagenomic validation). He mentors Sarah Tucker (Simons fellow) and collaborates with institutions including Marine Biological Laboratory, MARUM, and AWI. The group emphasizes open science practices, community education, and the development of tools for studying microbial dark matter.