Phillip B. Pope (0000-0002-2067-4059)

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As a microbial ecologist and physiologist, Prof Phil B. Pope has greater than 15 years' experience using multi-omic tools to deconvolute the intimate genomic and physiological relationships between microbial populations within complex microbiomes that are integral to gut function, health and nutrition of animals. Phil has a BSc from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia) majoring in physical mathematics, with honours in environmental microbiology (2003); a PhD in metagenomics from Griffith University (2007); and postdoc experience at CSIRO with Professor Mark Morrison (2007-2010). Phil moved to Europe in 2010 as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Incoming fellow with renowned enzymologist Prof. Vincent Eijsink and started the Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics (MEMO) group with an ERC starting grant in 2014.

Phil’s current research seeks to understand, monitor and ultimately manipulate gut microbiomes that heavily influence the health and wellbeing of animals as well as reduce their environmental impact. Phil is the PI of a Novo Nordisk Fonden fellowship “SuPAcow” and coordinator for the ERA-Net project “ImprovAFish”, which both seek to modulate the feed-microbiome-host axis in cows and fish, respectively. Phil also makes central scientific and management contributions to large national and European collaborative efforts that includes work package leadership roles in two Horizon 2020 projects (HoloRuminant and 3D’omics) that are focused on animal-microbiome interactions.

In 2024, Phil relocated to the Queensland University of Technology and is a group leader at the Centre for Microbiome Research. Phil was recently awarded an Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship "HoliCow" which aims to expand our fundamental understanding of the rumen microbiome by coupling omics technologies with high throughput cultivation.

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Queensland University of Technology: Brisbane, AU

2024-02-01 to present | Professor (Centre for Microbiome Research)

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Phillip B. Pope

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Queensland University of Technology: Brisbane, AU

Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Ås, NO

Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Ås, NO

Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Aas, NO

Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Aas, NO

CSIRO Queensland Bioscience Precinct: Saint Lucia, QLD, AU

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Griffith University: Nathan, QLD, AU

Griffith University: Nathan, QLD, AU

Griffith University: Nathan, QLD, AU

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Norwegian Microbiology Society: Oslo, NO

International Society of Microbial Ecology: Wageningen, NL

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Understanding microbiomes of the ruminant holobiont

Three-dimensional holo’omic landscapes to unveil host-microbiota interactions shaping animal production

Developing early-warning systems for improved microalgae PROduction and anaerobic DIGestIOn

BlueBio: Improving aquaculture sustainability by modulating the feed-microbiome-host axis in Fish

“SuPA[cow]”: Sustainable production of animals by optimizing the feed-microbiome-host axis

ReMicS: Regional research network for clinical Microbiota Science

Back to basics: simplifying microbial communities to decrypt complex interactions

Interpreting the irrecoverable microbiota in digestive ecosystems

The newly discovered Polysaccharide Utilisation Loci linked to multiple cellulolytic systems in nature: how does it work?

Learning from the locals: A metagenomic investigation into the plant biomass degrading capacity in Norwegian native herbivores.

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Integrating host and microbiome biology using holo-omics

Transcriptomic and proteomic changes associated with cobalamin-dependent propionate production by the rumen bacterium Xylanibacter ruminicola

CompareM2 is a genomes-to-report pipeline for comparing microbial genomes

Asparagopsis taxiformis inclusion in grass silage-based diets fed to Norwegian red dairy cows: effects on ruminal fermentation, milk yield and enteric methane emission

Predicting microbial genome-scale metabolic networks directly from 16S rRNA gene sequences

Resin acids play key roles in shaping microbial communities during degradation of spruce bark

Forecasting the dynamics of a complex microbial community using integrated meta-omics

Resin acids play key roles in shaping microbial communities during degradation of spruce bark

Methane inhibition by Asparagopsis taxiformis with rumen fluid collected from ventral and central location – a pilot study

Forecasting of a complex microbial community using meta-omics

Glycan processing in gut microbiomes

Nitrous oxide respiring bacteria in biogas digestates for reduced agricultural emissions

Biochemical characterization of two cellobiose 2-epimerases and application for efficient production of lactulose and epilactose

Polysaccharide degradation by the Bacteroidetes: mechanisms and nomenclature

An integrated gene catalog and over 10,000 metagenome-assembled genomes from the gastrointestinal microbiome of ruminants.

Human Gut Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Deploys a Highly Efficient Conserved System To Cross-Feed on β-Mannan-Derived Oligosaccharides.

ASaiM-MT: a validated and optimized ASaiM workflow for metatranscriptomics analysis within Galaxy framework

Transkingdom network analysis provides insight into host-microbiome interactions in Atlantic salmon.

N2O-respiring bacteria in biogas digestates for reduced agricultural emissions

Microbiota-directed fibre activates both targeted and secondary metabolic shifts in the distal gut.

A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes.

Integration of absolute multi-omics reveals dynamic protein-to-RNA ratios and metabolic interplay within mixed-domain microbiomes

Proteome specialization of anaerobic fungi during ruminal degradation of recalcitrant plant fiber.

DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function.

Succession of Bifidobacterium longum Strains in Response to a Changing Early Life Nutritional Environment Reveals Dietary Substrate Adaptations

Structural insights of the enzymes from the chitin utilization locus of Flavobacterium johnsoniae.

Rumen metaproteomics: Closer to linking rumen microbial function to animal productivity traits.

Rumen Virus Populations: Technological Advances Enhancing Current Understanding.

Integration of absolute multi-omics reveals translational and metabolic interplay in mixed-kingdom microbiomes

The Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Skin–Mucus Proteome and Its Nutrient Potential for the Resident Bacterial Community

From proteins to polysaccharides: lifestyle and genetic evolution of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus

The human gut Firmicute Roseburia intestinalis is a primary degrader of dietary β-mannans

Wood-Derived Dietary Fibers Promote Beneficial Human Gut Microbiota.

Functional metagenomics reveals abundant polysaccharide-degrading gene clusters and cellobiose utilization pathways within gut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

Proteomic Dissection of the Cellulolytic Machineries Used by Soil-Dwelling Bacteroidetes.

Interspecies cross-feeding orchestrates carbon degradation in the rumen ecosystem.

Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient.

Discovery and characterization of a thermostable two-domain GH6 endoglucanase from a compost metagenome

"Candidatus Paraporphyromonas polyenzymogenes" encodes multi-modular cellulases linked to the type IX secretion system.

From proteins to polysaccharides: lifestyle and genetic evolution of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus

Stable Core Gut Microbiota across the Freshwater-to-Saltwater Transition for Farmed Atlantic Salmon.

Metagenomics and CAZyme Discovery.

The Skin-Mucus Microbial Community of Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar).

Outer membrane vesicles from Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 contain an array of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes with versatile polysaccharide-degrading capacity.

Proteomic data on enzyme secretion and activity in the bacterium Chitinophaga pinensis.