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Chan Yeong Kim
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PhD | Microbiome researcher | Postdoc @Bork Group | EMBL-Heidelberg
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Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs) are found across 🌱🐨🦠 but their underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

In this study, we highlight that LDGs are not universal in marine microbiomes but reflect lineage-specific ecological strategies and environmental responses.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome
Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs), typically declining from the equator to the poles, are among the most pervasive macroecological patterns, yet their generality and underlying drivers in the oce...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our new preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide.
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Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats
Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...
www.biorxiv.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m excited to share our new paper published in Nature Communications!
In our work, we discovered TANB77, a bacterial clade previously obscured by a polyphyletic grouping in conventional taxonomy, as a reliable biomarker across diverse immunotherapy recipient groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A conserved pilin from uncultured gut bacterial clade TANB77 enhances cancer immunotherapy - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that higher levels of the gut bacterial clade TANB77 associate with better response to cancer immunotherapy, and further demonstrate in mice that a conserved pilin from TANB77 p...
www.nature.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM