Georg Zeller
Professor,
Leiden University Medical Center
Georg Zeller studied Bioinformatics (major in Computer Science) at the Universities of Tübingen (DE) and Uppsala (SE). In 2010 he obtained a PhD from the University of Tübingen (DE) for work performed at the Max Planck Institutes there. Afterwards he joined Peer Bork's group at EMBL Heidelberg (DE) as a postdoctoral researcher. From 2015 to 2024 he was an independent Team Leader establishing his microbiome research group at EMBL.
In 2023 he was appointed as Associated Professor (promoted to full professor in 2025) in the newly formed Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases (LUCID) at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC, NL) to head the Microbiome Systems Biology group.
Sessions
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Beyond Microbiome Associations: Using Large-Scale Meta-Analysis to Uncover Robust and Functional Disease Signatures28-Jan-2027Bacteria, Bugs & Big Data Stage