Marnix Medema is a Professor of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University and Leiden University. 

His research group develops and applies algorithms for the (meta)genomic identification and functional prediction of microbial biosynthetic pathways, with the aim to unravel the chemical language of microbiomes. He built and co-coordinates the development of the antiSMASH software for identification of biosynthetic gene clusters and developed various additional algorithms to chart their diversity and identify their functional roles in microbiomes. 

Medema is recipient of NWO Rubicon, Veni and Vidi fellowships and an ERC Starting Grant, and has coordinated several international consortia studying bacterial specialized metabolites. He received several prizes for his work, including the NBIC Young Investigator Award. 

He is editorial board member of mSystems and FEMS Microbes, and senior editor of ISME Communications. Also, he is member of the scientific advisory board of Hexagon Bio.

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