Prof. Jeroen Raes, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium

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• Prof. Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Belgium
• Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00
• Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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Prof. Jeroen Raes (m) is full professor at KU Leuven since 2013 and VIB group leader since 2009. His group currently consists of 30 scientists, with expertise in bioinformatics, systems biology, clinical research and microbiology. He has a substantial track record in microbiome research and has been pioneering the analysis and integration of meta-omics datasets (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics, meta-metabolomics) with environmental, clinical, host omics and dietary data. He was involved in the FP7 MetaHIT and NIH Human Microbiome Project (the latter as only European partner), which laid the foundations for the human microbiome 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 depression and develops novel approaches and tools for microbiome research. Jeroen Raes coordinates the Flemish Gut Flora project, a large-scale microbiome- focused population cohort in Belgium. He has received multiple awards and recognitions, among which a selection as FWO Odysseus Fellow, a Francqui Chair and selection for Cell journal’s “40 under 40” promising young scientists. His 2011 paper in Nature was selected by Science as part of their “Top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2011”.

Jeroen Raes has published >300 papers in top ranking journals such as Science (8), Nature (16), Cell (5), Nature Biotechnology (4), Nature Microbiology (7), Nature Reviews Microbiology (5), Gut (15) and PNAS (4). He has an h-factor of 95 and his work has been cited > 106.000 (ISI).

This talk is part of the Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series series.

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• Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cambridge Immunology
• Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series
• Cambridge Infectious Disease
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