Jacob Bak Holm MSc, PhD

Jacob Bak Holm, Ph.D. holds a Ph.D. in gut microbiota from University of Copenhagen, and an MSc in Molecular Biomedicine from University of Copenhagen. Prior to joining Clinical Microbiomics, Jacob was working as a postdoc in Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine at the University of Copenhagen under professor Karsten Kristiansen. Jacob has been in charge of/involved in a broad variety of animal and human studies focusing on how diet, pathogens, diseases, prebiotics, and probiotics modulate the gut microbiota and what potential functional consequences this can have for the host.

Jacob holds a FELASA C license and is experienced in working with mice as a laboratory animal model for gut microbiota and metabolism studies. Jacob possesses previous unique hands-on experience with collection and analyzing challenging samples ranging from highly controlled human and animal trials to catching and sampling of wild vampire bats in the jungles of Belize and chickens in the remote areas of Africa. In addition to his experience in performing the studies, he is also skilled in analyzing the gut microbiota data.