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SUMMARY:Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease. - Prof. J
 eroen Raes\, Vice director\, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology\, Belgi
 um
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CONTACT:Ruth Paton
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jeroen Raes (m) is full professor at KU Leuven since 201
 3 and VIB group leader since 2009. His group currently consists of 30 scie
 ntists\, with expertise in bioinformatics\, systems biology\, clinical res
 earch and microbiology. He has a substantial track record in microbiome re
 search and has been pioneering the analysis and integration of meta-omics 
 datasets (metagenomics\, metatranscriptomics\, metaproteomics\, meta-metab
 olomics) with environmental\, clinical\, host omics and dietary data. He w
 as involved in the FP7 MetaHIT and NIH Human Microbiome Project (the latte
 r as only European partner)\, which laid the foundations for the human mic
 robiome field as it is today. Finally\, his lab is performing a wide range
  of disease-related projects in a.o. IBD\, diabetes\, cancer\, IBS and dep
 ression and develops novel approaches and tools for microbiome research. J
 eroen Raes coordinates the Flemish Gut Flora project\, a large-scale micro
 biome- focused population cohort in Belgium. He has received multiple awar
 ds and recognitions\, among which a selection as FWO Odysseus Fellow\, a F
 rancqui Chair and selection for Cell journal’s “40 under 40” promisi
 ng young scientists. His 2011 paper in Nature was selected by Science as p
 art of their “Top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2011”.\n\n\nJeroen Raes
  has published >300 papers in top ranking journals such as Science (8)\, N
 ature (16)\, Cell (5)\, Nature Biotechnology (4)\, Nature Microbiology (7)
 \, Nature Reviews Microbiology (5)\, Gut (15) and PNAS (4). He has an h-fa
 ctor of 95 and his work has been cited > 106.000 (ISI).
LOCATION: Lecture Theatre\, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre\, Cambridge Bi
 omedical Campus
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