I am a microbiologist and a bioinformatician within the “Food, Microbiome and Health” Institute Strategic Programme, and my expertise is the data analysis of metagenomic datasets.

I received my PhD in microbiology and cellular biology from the University of Paris-Saclay (France), working on the redox control of protein secretion in the baker’s yeast. In 2017, I joined the lab of Dr Hurwitz at the University of Arizona (USA) as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the development of cyberinfrastructures for metagenomic data aiming to help microbiologists to share their data and run large-scale analyses on connected computing resources. In 2021, I joined Dr Anne Salonen‘s group at the University of Helsinki (Finland), investigating the complex interaction between environmental exposures, gut microbiome and virome in the early life gut microbiota. I moved to the Quadram Institute in 2024.

Key Publications

Ponsero J. A., Bomhoff M., Blumberg K., Youens-Clark K., Herz M. N., Wood-Charlson M. E., Delong F. E., Hurwitz L. B. Planet Microbe: a platform for marine microbiology to discover and analyze interconnected ‘omics and environmental data. (2021) Nucleic Acid Research https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa637

Evgenia Dikareva, Dollwin Matharu, Emilia Lahtinen, Kaija-Lena Kolho, Willem M. De Vos, Anne Salonen, Alise J. Ponsero. (2023) An extended catalogue of infant and adult gut phageome shows high prevalence of lysogeny. Frontiers in Microbiology https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1254535

Ponsero AJ, Miller M, Hurwitz BL. (2023) Comparison of k-mer-based de novo comparative metagenomic tools and approaches. Microbiome Research Reports 2:27 https://doi.org/10.20517%2Fmrr.2023.26

Ponsero A., Bartelme R., De Oliveira Almeida G., Bigelow A., Tuteja R., Ellingson H., Swetnam T., Merchant N., Oxnam M., Lyons E. 10 simple rules to survive organizing a data science workshop. (2020) Plos computational biology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008226