Prof. Phil Pope

As a microbial ecologist and physiologist, Professor Phil B. Pope leads the Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics (MEMO) group and 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 first-class 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 his group with an ERC starting grant in 2014. 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 ~10 mEUR Horizon 2020 projects (HoloRuminant and 3D’omics) that are focused on animal-microbiome interactions.

 

Contact

 +61 7 3443 7349

 phil.pope@qut.edu.au

Selected publications

  1. A.V.P. de León, M. Hoetzinger, T. Hensen, S. Gupta, B. Weston, S.M. Johnsen, J.A. Rasmussen, C.G. Clausen, L. Pless, A.R.A. Veríssimo, K. Rudi, L. Snipen, C.R. Karlsen, M.T. Limborg, S. Bertilsson, I. Thiele, T.R. Hvidsten, S.R. Sandve, P.B. Pope*, S.L. La Rosa* (2024). The Salmon Microbiome Genome Atlas enables novel insights into bacteria-host interactions via functional mapping. * equal contributions. Accepted
  2. T.O. Andersen, I. Altshuler, A.V.P. de Leon, J. Walter, E. McGovern, K. Keogh, C. Martin, L. Bernard, D.P. Morgavi, T. Park, Z. Li, Y. Jiang, J.L. Firkins, Z. Yu, T.R. Hvidsten, S.M. Waters, M. Popova, M.Ø. Arntzen, L.H. Hagen, P.B. Pope (2023). Metabolic influence of core ciliates within the rumen microbiome. ISME J. doi:10.1038/s41396-023-01407-y
  3. *M.P. Ostrowski, *S.L. La Rosa, B.J. Kunath, A. Robertson, G. Pereira, L.H. Hagen, N. Varghese, T. Yao, G. Flint, S. McDonald, D. Buttner, N.A. Pudlo, M.K. Schnizlein, V.B. Young, H. Brumer, T. Schmidt, N. Terrapon, V. Lombard, B. Henrissat, B. Hamaker, E.A Eloe-Fadrosh, A. Tripathi, P.B. Pope, E.C. Martens (2022). Mechanistic insights into consumption of the food additive xanthan gum by the human gut microbiota. Nature Microbiology. 7; 556-569.
  4. L. Michalak, J.C. Gaby, L. Lagos, S.L. La Rosa, T.R. Hvidsten, C. Tétard-Jones, W.G.T. Willats, N. Terrapon, V. Lombard, B. Henrissat, J. Dröge, M.Ø. Arntzen, L.H. Hagen, M. Øverland, P.B. Pope*, B. Westereng* (2020). Microbiota-directed fibre activates both targeted and secondary metabolic shifts in the distal gut. *equal contributions. Nature Communications. 11; 5773.
  5. F. Delogu, B.J. Kunath, P.N. Evans, M.Ø. Arntzen, T.R. Hvidsten, P.B. Pope (2020). Integration of absolute multi-omics reveals dynamic protein-to-RNA ratios and metabolic interplay within mixed-domain microbiomes. Nature Communications. 11; 4708.
  6. B.J. Kunath, F. Delogu, A.E. Naas, M.Ø. Arntzen, V.G.H. Eijsink, B. Henrissat, T.R. Hvidsten, P.B. Pope (2019). From proteins to polysaccharides; lifestyle and genetic evolution of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus. ISME J. 13; 603-617.
  7. L.M. Solden, A.E. Naas, S. Roux, R.A. Daly, W.B. Collins, C.D. Nicora, S.O. Purvine, J. Schuckel, B. Jorgensen, W.G.T. Willats, D.E. Spalinger, M.S. Lipton, M.B. Sullivan, P.B. Pope, K.C. Wrighton (2018). Interspecies cross-feeding orchestrates carbon degradation in the rumen ecosystem. Nature Microbiology. 3; 1274-1284.
  8. A.E. Naas, A.K. Mackenzie, J. Mravec, J. Schückel, W.G.T. Willats, V.G.H. Eijsink, P.B. Pope (2014). Do rumen Bacteroidetes utilize an alternative mechanism for cellulose degradation? mBio 5; e01401-14.
  9. P.B. Pope, W. Smith, S.E. Denman, S.G. Tringe, K. Barry, P. Hugenholtz, C.S. McSweeney, A.C. McHardy and M. Morrison (2011). Isolation and cultivation of Succinivibrionaceae implicated in low methane emissions from Tammar wallabies. Science 333(7); p646.
  10. P.B. Pope, S.E. Denman, M. Jones, S.G. Tringe, K. Barry, S.A. Malfatti, A.C. McHardy, J-F. Cheng, P. Hugenholtz, C.S. McSweeney, and M. Morrison (2010). Adaptation to herbivory by the Tammar wallaby includes bacterial and glycoside hydrolase profiles different to other herbivores. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107 (33); p14793.

All publications: http://tinyurl.com/pubmed-phil-pope