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Christian Diener Joins the Lab

Christian Diener will join the Institute for Systems Biology as the Washington Research Foundation Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Gibbons Lab. Christian is a computational biologist who has worked extensively on yeast systems biology and has recently moved into studying the human microbiome. He completed his PhD in systems biology at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics and is currently working at the National Institute for Genome Medicine in Mexico City. Christian will work on the Wellness 100K Project to develop personalized insights into how the gut microbiome influences human health. You can follow Christian’s work on Twitter.

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