Mikael Lenz Strube

Mikael Lenz Strube is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), affiliated with the DTU Microbes Initiative and Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites. His research focuses on microbial ecology with applications in animal health and agriculture.

Research interests center on microbial ecology, carbohydrate chemistry, and prebiotic development. Key areas include:

• Prevention of post-weaning diarrhea in pigs through non-medical methods
• Microbiota of intestines and advanced statistical analysis
• Bioinformatics approaches to microbial community dynamics
• Influence of dietary components on host gut flora

Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on microbial ecology (45%), applied biotechnology (30%), and methodological innovations (25%). Trends include microbiome studies in agriculture/health (2022-2025), novel antimicrobial solutions (2024), and advanced sequencing applications (2023).

Current projects include analyzing microbiomes using long-read metagenomics (2024-2027), metagenomic approaches to assess soil bacterial metabolomes (2024-2027), and quantitative ecology of Bacilli (2020-2024). Strube supervises 5 PhD students working on microbiome analysis, soil metabolomics, and resistome dynamics.

Research involves collaborations across Denmark and internationally, with facilities including microbial ecology labs, sequencing facilities, and the Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites. Recent conference presentations include work on in situ prebiotic production (2015).