A newly established interdisciplinary consortium between the Gut Microbiology Laboratory of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern (leading house), the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory (EML) in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, the Laboratory of Metabolic Signaling of the Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, and the Clostridia Research Group (CRG) in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the “Sinergia – Interdisciplinary and Collaborati