Karsten Kristiansen, Denmark

Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine

Department of Biology

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Institute of Metagenomics, BGI-Shenzhen, China

Institute of Metagenomics, Qingdao-Europe Institute for Advanced Life Sciences

Karsten Kristiansen is Professor of Molecular Biology and heads the Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. He is also Professor at and Director of the Institute of Metagenomics at BGI-Shenzhen and the Institute of Metagenomics, Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China. After graduation from the University of Copenhagen, he held research positions at the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik in Berlin and at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, in Paris. He was full professor and head of Department of Molecular Biology, later Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 1992-2008, before he was recruited as professor and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen in 2008. Central themes of the research of Professor Kristiansen concern the interaction between the host genome, the host immune system, and the gut microbiota in regulating gut health and energy metabolism, and how interaction between different nutrients modulates energy homeostasis. In addition, his research groups now explore the interaction between the brain and the gut microbiota. Recently he has initiated work to isolate communities of soil-borne bacteria to be used as bio-pesticides. For these projects, his research groups use a combination of molecular biology approaches, animal and plant studies, metagenomics and genomics. He has published more than 430 articles in refereed journals, many of which in high ranking journals such as Science, Nature, and Cell, and he is a WoS Clarivate highly cited researcher.

Lecture：

Can we change the microbiome?