Nuria Canibe
Knut Rudi
Karsten Kristiansen
Karsten Kristiansen is Professor of Molecular Biology and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. After graduation from the University of Copenhagen, he held postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin and at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, in Paris, before taking up a position as associate professor at the Department of Molecular Biology, Odense University, where he became full professor and Head of Department. He was recruited to his current position at the University of Copenhagen in 2008. Professor Kristiansen is member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences, and visiting professor at and senior advisor to BGI-Shenzhen. He serves as reviewer for a large number of journals and international funding agencies. He is scientific advisor for several biotech companies. Professor Kristiansen is currently heading a research group comprising 25 postdocs and doctorate students. His research focuses on metagenomics, genomics, and regulation of gene expression and cellular differentiation with particular emphasis on energy homeostasis and adipocyte differentiation and function. He has published more than 240 articles in refereed journals, many of which in high ranking journals such as Science, Nature, and Cell, and presented more than 300 international conference contributions and lectures.
Jordi Estelle
Jana Seifert
Professor Jana Seifert is a Junior Professor at Hohenheim University. Her current research interests include investigating the influence of feed supplementation with inorganic phosphorous and/or microbial phytases towards the formation of inositol phosphates and the composition of the intestinal microbiota in chicken and pigs.
Hauke Smidt
Prof. Dr. Hauke Smidt (1967) holds a Personal Chair at the WU-MIB and leads the Microbial Ecology Group that focuses on the integrated application of innovative cultivation and functional genomics-based methods to study composition and activity of a.o. intestinal tract microbiota in humans, farm and model animals, as well as their interaction with their host, in relation to host nutrition and health. Hauke Smidt has recently coordinated the EU-FP7 funded project INTERPLAY focusing on the interplay between intestinal microbiota and intestinal development and health in pigs, and is leader of the microbiomics platform and Theme Council member at TI Food & Nutrition.
Hauke Smidt currently supervises 20 PhD students in national and EU projects, including 11 PhD students working on intestinal microbiota of humans and farm animals. Hauke Smidt has recently coordinated the EU-FP7 funded project INTERPLAY focusing on the interplay between intestinal microbiota and intestinal development and health in pigs, is member of the Management Team of the National BE-Basic program, and has been Senior Scientist and Theme Council member at TI Food & Nutrition.
Hauke Smidt has (co-)authored over 230 peer-reviewed publications, with an ISI WoS H-factor of currently 48. He is (co-)inventor of several patents, and is member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including PlosOne, PeerJ and Microbial Ecology.
In 2008, Hauke Smidt has been appointed Visiting Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, and since 2010, he holds a Personal Chair in “Complex Microbial Ecosystems” at Wageningen University.
At WU-MIB, research of the Smidt group has been involved in a broad range of international and national projects (EU FP6-HealthyPigGut, FP7-MetaHit, FP7-CrossTalk, FP7-ProMicrobe, ZonMW MetaResist, FP7-EvoTar, TIFN GI-Health, NWO-Farm Animal Health, DSM-STW partnership, CCC Carbohealth) that focus on the intestinal microbiome of humans and production animals, and evolution and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria and their genes, following a OneHealth philosophy that links environmental, human and animal health.
