Internship at Nestlé research

2. Jan 2017

Nestlé Research Center Feb 2016 – Feb 2017

This Internship allowed me to learn from experts about children gut microbiota. My job was to build a analysis pipeline for metagenomics analysis.
I’d like to thank especially Bernard Berger, Olga Sakwinska and Harald Brüssow for their supervision.

Achievements:

  • Implementation of metagenomics analysis pipeline
  • Relating microbiota data to human health
  • First publication
human gut microbiota metagenomics Nestlé
Silas Kieser
Silas Kieser
Data scientist with 10 years of experience

Husband, Father & Data scientist

Publications

Bangladeshi children with acute diarrhoea show faecal microbiomes with increased Streptococcus abundance, irrespective of diarrhoea aetiology
We report streptococcal dysbiosis in acute diarrhoea irrespective of aetiology. Compared with 20 healthy local controls, 71 Bangladeshi …
Silas Kieser, Shafiqul A. Sarker, Olga Sakwinska, FrancisFoata, Shamima Sultana, Zeenat Khan, Shoheb Islam, Nadine Porta, Séverine Combremont, Bertrand Betrisey, Coralie Fournier, Aline Charpagne, Patrick Descombes, Annick Mercenier, Bernard Berger, Brüssow Harald
Project DOI
Bangladeshi children with acute diarrhoea show faecal microbiomes with increased Streptococcus abundance, irrespective of diarrhoea aetiology
Antibiotic Treatment Leads to Fecal Escherichia coli and Coliphage Expansion in Severely Malnourished Diarrhea Patients
Malnutrition predisposes to diarrhea and diarrhea adversely affects the nutritional status creating a vicious cycle. The role of the …
Silas Kieser, Shafiqul A. Sarker, Bernard Berger, Shamima Sultana, Mohammed J. Chisti, Shoeb B. Islam, Francis Foata, Nadine Porta, Bertrand Betrisey, Coralie Fournier, Patrick Descombes, Annick Mercenier, Olga Sakwinska, Harald Brüssow
Project DOI
Antibiotic Treatment Leads to Fecal Escherichia coli and Coliphage Expansion in Severely Malnourished Diarrhea Patients