Carine Roese Mores has been a PhD student in Prof Shinichi Sunagawa’s group at ETH Zurich since September 2020. She was born in Brazil, where she studied biology (Diploma, 2016) and biotechnology and biosciences (MSc, 2018). From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a bioinformatician at Loyola University Chicago in the USA, focusing on human microbiome data analysis. Her main research interest within the group is to combine bioinformatic and experimental approaches in order to better understand the structure, function and diversity of the human microbiome.