Asier is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). His focus is linking the internal exposome changes driven by environmental factors to human health.
Asier holds a PhD in human microbiome research from the University of Groningen, where he explored the temporal development and modulating factors of the early-life human gut microbiome, as well as these microbial communities in specific disease contexts.
Within the Exposome-NL consortium, Asier focuses on understanding how multiple environmental and lifestyle factors (external exposome) affect different layers of the internal exposome, with a particular focus on the human gut microbiome and virome, and how this ultimately impacts human health and disease.
I aim to understand how the exposome impacts the microbiome and drives health outcomes across life.
Milla F Brandao Gois, Asier Fernández-Pato, Anke Huss, Ranko Gacesa, Cisca Wijmenga, Rinse K Weersma, Jingyuan Fu, Roel C H Vermeulen, Alexandra Zhernakova, Virissa C Lenters, Alexander Kurilshikov
Front. Microbiol., 10 August 2023 Sec. Microbial Symbioses Volume 14 - 2023 |
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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