Microbiome Pillar Research Team
Microbiome Pillar Leadership Committee
Hauke Smidt
Co-PI, Chair of Microbiome Pillar
Research Theme Co-Lead
Personal Chair ‘Complex Microbial Ecosystems’ at the Laboratory of Microbiology
Coordinator, UNLOCK research infrastructure
Wageningen University & Research
Email: hauke.smidt@wur.nl
Luca Guardabassi
Professor of One Health AMR
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Email: lg@sund.ku.dk
Ole Højberg
Senoir Researcher
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Aarhus University
Email: ole.hojberg@anivet.au.dk
Michiel Kleerebezem
Professor
Host-Microbes Interactomics
Wageningen University & Research
Andreas Bäumler
Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, Davis
Email: ajbaumler@ucdavis.edu
Dennis Sandris Nielsen
Professor
Department of Food Science
Section for Food Microbiology and Fermentation
University of Copenhagen
Email: dn@food.ku.dk
Jeppe Lund Nielsen
Professor in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology
Department of Chemistry and Bioscience
Aalborg University
Email: jln@bio.aau.dk
Jerry Wells
Professor
Wageningen University & Research
Early Career Researchers
Gwen Meijers
PhD student
Laboratory of Microbiology
Wageningen University & Research
Research Topic: Assembly and resilience of pig intestinal microbiomes
Email: gwen.meijers@wur.nl
Bart van der Hee
Post Doc
Department of Animal Sciences
Wageningen University & Research
Research Topic: Microbial regulation of stress-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction and epithelial maturation in piglets
Email: bart.vanderhee@wur.nl
Barış Erhan Özdinç
PhD student
Laboratory of Microbiology
Wageningen University & Research
Research Topic: The biogeography of the developing piglet intestinal microbiome
Email: baris.ozdinc@wur.nl
Alfredo Chavez-Arroyo
Post Doc (Ph.D)
Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology
University of California, Davis
Research Topic: Using in vivo mouse models to investigate the microbiota during the weaning process in piglets. Additionally, we're investigating the role of endogenous Enterobacteriaceae in providing colonization resistance to ETEC
Email: alchavez@ucdavis.edu
Oshin Vellalara
PhD Student
Host Microbe Interactomics Group
Department of Animal Sciences
Wageningen University & Research
Research Topic: Mechanistic in vitro organoid models to explore microbiome manipulation and nutritional strategies in combating Post-Weaning Diarrhea in Piglets
Email: oshin.vellalara@wur.nl