Johannes Björk
Assistant Professor at UMCG
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohannes Björk is an Assistant Professor and computational microbiome scientist with eight years of experience modeling the structure and dynamics of host-associated microbial communities. He leads research programs at UMCG investigating how gut microbiota shape outcomes in cancer immunotherapy and solid organ transplantation, integrating metagenomics, metabolomics, dietary data and PhiP-Seq across large longitudinal cohorts. Trained in ecology and computational biology (PhD, cum laude), he brings a systems-ecology perspective informed by work from marine sponges to wild baboons, emphasizing dynamic, strain-level microbe–immune interactions. He develops Bayesian and machine-learning tools (R, Greta/JAGS/Stan) to extract predictive features from multimodal data with the goal of designing microbiome-targeted therapeutics. Notably, his background in long-term wild-host datasets underpins a rare combination of ecological theory and clinical translational focus.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaMSc, Animal Ecology, MSc, Animal Ecology at University of GothenburgMinor, Statistics, Minor, Statistics at Högskolan Väst / University West
English, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
r-package9
ecology9
transition9
animated8
animation8
r7
grammar6
qiime5
data-visualization5
statistics5
python5
genetics5
bioinformatics4
microbiome4
sequencing4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:16 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 comments, 1 issue in 11 months
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