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MARNIX H. MEDEMA

Wageningen University & Research
MARNIX H. MEDEMA

Marnix Medema is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He obtained a Biology BSc (Radboud University Nijmegen, 2006) and a Biomolecular Sciences MSc (University of Groningen, 2008). In 2013, he completed his PhD with Eriko Takano and Rainer Breitling in Groningen; during this period, he was also a visiting fellow with Michael Fischbach at the University of California, San Francisco. Following a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, he joined Wageningen University in 2015. There, his group develops computational methodologies to unravel natural product biosynthesis using omics data, and applies these methods to the study of molecular interactions in microbiomes. He built and co-coordinates the development of the antiSMASH software for the identification of biosynthetic gene clusters, along with several other algorithms for omics-based natural product discovery. Medema is a recipient of NWO Rubicon and Veni fellowships and an ERC Starting Grant, and received several prizes for his work, including the NBIC Young Investigator Award. He is editorial board member of Natural Product Reports, mSystems and FEMS Microbes, senior editor of ISME Communications, member of the scientific advisory board of Hexagon Bio, and co-founder of Design Pharmaceuticals.