Dr. Annelies Kers

Biography

Annelies Kers is an epidemiologist with a background in Biomedical Sciences and Business Administration. She began her scientific career as a junior researcher at VUmc in Amsterdam, working with the Research Group on Community Genetics and Public Health Genomics. During this time, she had the opportunity to be a visiting scholar at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where she discovered her passion for working with large datasets. In 2020, she completed her PhD focusing on the intestinal microbiome and broiler chicken health at Utrecht University. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University, before joining the Health Microbial group at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University. Currently, she holds an Assistant Professor position that bridges the domains of human, environmental, and animal research in the field of microbiome epidemiology. Her projects include DISSEMINATE, which explores the drivers and spread of mobile genetic elements involved in antimicrobial resistance, and a seed funding initiative focused on the methodological needs of microbiome multi-omics.

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