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Biology and Biochemistry
Luxembourg
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
22721
World Ranking
8483
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Luxembourg Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Luxembourg Leader Award

Overview

Paul Wilmes is affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their research spans across several fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work focuses on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Diet and metabolism studies.

Paul Wilmes has published numerous papers in frequently encountered venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbiome, Nature Communications, SSRN Electronic Journal, and ISME Communications.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • The gut microbial metabolite formate exacerbates colorectal cancer progression, 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer: How to Get from Meta-omics to Mechanism?, 2020, Trends in Microbiology
  • Glutathione Restricts Serine Metabolism to Preserve Regulatory T Cell Function, 2020, Cell Metabolism
  • PathoFact: a pipeline for the prediction of virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance genes in metagenomic data, 2021, Microbiome

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors including:

  • Patrick May
  • Susheel Bhanu Busi
  • Cédric C. Laczny
  • Rashi Halder
  • Benoît J. Kunath

Best Publications

  • Treg induction by a rationally selected mixture of Clostridia strains from the human microbiota

    Koji Atarashi;Takeshi Tanoue;Kenshiro Oshima;Wataru Suda

  • A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility

    Mahesh S. Desai;Mahesh S. Desai;Anna M. Seekatz;Nicole M. Koropatkin;Nobuhiko Kamada

  • Generation of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for 773 members of the human gut microbiota

    Stefania Magnusdottir;Almut Katrin Heinken;Laura Kutt;Dmitry Ravcheev

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Human Gut Microbiome: Function Matters

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Paul Wilmes

  • A microfluidics-based in vitro model of the gastrointestinal human-microbe interface.

    Pranjul Shah;Joëlle V. Fritz;Enrico Glaab;Mahesh S. Desai

  • The nasal and gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Urvashi Pandey;Tamara Wicke;Friederike Sixel-Döring

  • Metaproteomics: studying functional gene expression in microbial ecosystems

    Paul Wilmes;Philip L. Bond

  • VizBin - an application for reference-independent visualization and human-augmented binning of metagenomic data.

    Cedric Christian Laczny;Tomasz Sternal;Valentin Plugaru;Piotr Gawron

  • The application of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and downstream analyses to a mixed community of prokaryotic microorganisms.

    Paul Wilmes;Philip L. Bond

  • Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract.

    Thomas Sebastian Benedikt Schmidt;Matthew Robert Hayward;Luis Pedro Coelho;Simone S Li

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

    Chloe Mirzayi;Audrey Renson;Massive Analysis

  • Characterization of extracellular polymeric substances from acidophilic microbial biofilms.

    Yongqin Jiao;George D. Cody;Anna K. Harding;Paul Wilmes

  • Integrated multi-omics of the human gut microbiome in a case study of familial type 1 diabetes

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Patrick May;Cédric C. Laczny;Laura A. Lebrun

  • Birth mode is associated with earliest strain-conferred gut microbiome functions and immunostimulatory potential

    Linda Wampach;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Joëlle V. Fritz;Joëlle V. Fritz;Javier Ramiro-Garcia

  • Colonization and Succession within the Human Gut Microbiome by Archaea, Bacteria, and Microeukaryotes during the First Year of Life

    Linda Wampach;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Angela Hogan;Emilie E. L. Muller

  • Systematic Design of 18S rRNA Gene Primers for Determining Eukaryotic Diversity in Microbial Consortia

    Luisa W. Hugerth;Emilie E. L. Muller;Yue O. O. Hu;Laura A. M. Lebrun

  • Community proteogenomics highlights microbial strain-variant protein expression within activated sludge performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal

    Paul Wilmes;Anders F Andersson;Mark G Lefsrud;Margaret Wexler

  • The human gut microbiome in health: establishment and resilience of microbiota over a lifetime

    Kacy Greenhalgh;Kristen M. Meyer;Kjersti M. Aagaard;Paul Wilmes

  • This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. VizBin - an application for reference-independent visualization and human- augmented binning of metagenomic data

    Cedric C Laczny;Tomasz Sternal;Arash Atashpendar;Laurens van der Maaten

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip L. Bond
Philip L. Bond University of Queensland
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Sand
Wolfgang Sand Institute of Oceanology
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University
David J. Galas
David J. Galas Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Lance B. Price
Lance B. Price George Washington University
Robert L. Hettich
Robert L. Hettich Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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