Eline Klaassens

Eline joined BaseClear in 2020 as Product Manager Human Health. Eline has a strong background in human microbiome analysis, holding a PhD degree from Wageningen University in Microbial Eco-physiology of the Human Intestinal Tract. She has used multiple omics tools for profiling diversity as well as functionality of the human microbiome. At WUR she investigated the functionality of bifidobacteria in the infant and adult gut using metaproteomics and transcriptomics. At the CSIRO (Australia) studies focussed on functional analysis of novel isolated species and biopsies related to IBD and colon cancer using (meta)-transcriptomics. At the University of Sydney her work covered the effect of diet in metabolic disease on the microbiome.