About us

Our Weblog group comprises of five medical student attending their third year at the Leiden University Medical Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. With our weblog each member of the group has tried to contribute to the world of the airway microbiota by writing a piece about the part of the airway microbiota which interests him or her most.


The weblog writers :
-          Jens Krol: ‘What is cystic fibrosis?’
-          Tristan Akershoek: ‘Lung microbiome’
-          Malak Al-Gawahiri: ‘The impact of antibiotics on the airway microbiome of cystic fibrosis patients’ & ‘Lung-gut axis in CF patients’
-          Elise van Putten: ‘Lung transplantation and the lung microbiome’
-          Toon Zonneveld: ‘ Critical appraisal 1: airway microbiota in early CF patients’ & ‘Critical appraisal 2: lung microbiota from children with CF compared to healthy controls’


From Left to right, top: Tristan, Toon, Jens; bottom: Elise, Malak



With this weblog we hope to excite our readers into the world of airway microbiome as it excites us.