Wageningen University & Research is ranked as the best Agricultural University worldwide and the best university in The Netherlands.
The Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology at WUR is a leading group in developing and applying computational and experimental methods to study microbes and their interactions with the environment and hosts, for a broad range of applications, from biotechnology to human health. The group has expertise in metabolic modelling, omics data analysis and integration, synthetic biology, data mining, and FAIR data management.
WUR is involved in developing computational methods to analyze biological data, creating predictive disease models, and interpreting AI-based predictions.
“To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life.”
WUR Team
Prof. Dr Maria Suarez Diez
Chair of Systems and Synthetic Biology
An expert in metabolic modelling, omics data analysis and data and model integration. Her research focuses on developing mathematical models to understand microbial metabolism, to characterize microbial communities and to characterize host pathogen interactions. She has authored over 120 publications.
Dr Edoardo Saccenti
Associate professor of statistical and mathematical modelling in Systems Biology
An expert in multivariate tools for analysis and integration of large multidimensional (omics) data sets and dynamic models. He works in several research fields, from microbiology to chemistry, to medicine to animal sciences. He has authored more than 100 publications in data analysis, statistics, and application to life science.
Dr Jasper Koehorst
Assistant professor in Semantic Systems Biology
An expert on the development of FAIR-by-design data management workflows for the life sciences and on bio-data mining approaches for bioprospecting. He manages the FAIR data platform in the UNLOCK infrastructure which is devoted to experimentally characterize microbial communities. He has contributed to over 50 publications.
Dr Michael Schon
Assistant professor of functional genomics in
Systems Biology
An expert in transcript annotation and functional characterization of noncoding RNA. He designs protocols and software for isoform analysis from single-cell and long-read RNA sequencing, and he leads a project on evolutionary-scale RNA annotation of the plant family Brassicaceae.
Dr Cristina Furlan
Lecturer and researcher
Expertise in the analysis of omics data, with a focus on proteomics and single cell technologies and its applications to health and biomedical problems.
Led by the University of Burgos, POMATO brings together 16 partners from top universities, research organizations, SMEs, agrochemical companies, and farmers. Our international partners from regions severely affected by Cs/Rs, like Colombia and Ecuador, ensure that we exchange best practices and adapt solutions to different farming environments.
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