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Hijum, van Sacha Dr.

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Street / P.O. Box
Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, route 260
Zip code
6525 GA
City
Nijmegen
Country
The Netherlands
E-mail
svhijum@removethis.cmbi.ru.nl
Phone number(s)
+31 (0)24 3619389
Website(s)
http://www.cmbi.ru.nl
http://www.tifn.nl
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sa...

Principal Research

Sacha van Hijum is a molecular biologist by training (PhD in 2004 at Groningen University, RUG, the Netherlands) who did bioinformatics post-docs at the RUG and the University of Greifswald (Germany) and started working at NIZO food research in 2008. He is leader of the NIZO bioinformatics group, leader of the Bacterial Genomics group (founded by Prof. Siezen in 2000; CMBI, NCMLS, RUNMC), bioinformatics platform leader of the Top Institute of Food and Nutrition (TIFN), and principal investigator of the NBIC metagenomics taskforce.

General aim of the bioinformatics research is to link bacterial interactions to the health status of subjects. Research is strongly linked to projects at TIFN, NIZO, the Kluyver Center for Genomics of Industrial Fermentations, and academic collaborations. Projects are on the bioinformatics analysis of ~omics data of (consortia of) bacteria that are either (a) desirable, e.g. intestinal commensal bacteria, or bacteria used for food fermentations or in health-based products, and (b) undesirable, e.g. biofilms of food-spoilage or disease-related bacteria. The research involves (meta)genome sequencing and assembly, annotation, comparative genomics (including comparative genome hybridization analysis of microarrays), transcriptomics and gene-trait matching, all in relation to exploration and exploitation of the enormous microbial diversity that is found in Nature.

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