Data mining is used to uncover hidden patterns in large amounts of experimental data ‐ for example, correlations between the gut microbes of healthy people and people in intensive care units.

Professorship for Microbiome Dynamics

Prof. Dr Gianni Panagiotou
Data mining is used to uncover hidden patterns in large amounts of experimental data ‐ for example, correlations between the gut microbes of healthy people and people in intensive care units.
Image: Anna Schroll/Leibniz-HKI

Prof. Panagiotou is not only head of the Professorship for Microbiome Dynamics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, he also leads the department Systems Biology and BioinformaticsExternal link at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI).

Gut microbiome: The microbial diversity of the gut influences disease progression and may possibly explain why people do or do not respond to cancer therapy.
Gut microbiome: The microbial diversity of the gut influences disease progression and may possibly explain why people do or do not respond to cancer therapy.
Graphic: Luo Yu/Leibniz-HKI