Dr Jakob Wirbel

Jakob Wirbel studied molecular biotechnology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. After completing his Master of Science in the laboratory of Julio Saez-Rodriguez, he joined the group of Georg Zeller at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory for his doctoral studies, focusing on machine learning and statistical methods for microbiome data. He then moved to the lab of Ami Bhatt at Stanford University, supported by a fellowship of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, where he was introduced to long-read metagenomic sequencing. At HZI, Jakob Wirbel is heading the junior research group “Precision Microbial Genomics” in the HUMAN program.