Milla Brandao Gois

Milla has a MSc. in Molecular Medicine and Innovative Treatment, with emphasis on systems medicine, as well as infection and immunity. Currently, she investigates the influence of environmental factors on the human gut microbiome. Truly enthusiastic for research areas that consider the influencing factors in health, such as environmental, microbiome and genetic traits. She is most passionate about the multidisciplinary and integrative intersection among those topics.

Publications

Impact of occupational pesticide exposure on the human gut microbiome

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 |

Role of the gut microbiome in mediating lactose intolerance symptoms

Brandao Gois MF, Sinha T, Spreckels JE et al.
Gut, vol. 71 issue 1

Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes-an exposome approach

Beulens JWJ, Pinho MGM, Abreu TC, den Braver NR, Lam TM, Huss A, Vlaanderen J, Sonnenschein T, Siddiqui NZ, Yuan Z, Kerckhoffs J, Zhernakova A, Brandao Gois MF, Vermeulen RCH.
Diabetologia. 2021 Nov 18.

Milla Brandao Gois

Contact information

m.brandao.gois@umcg.nl

University Medical Center Groningen
Department of Genetics, CB50
Building 3211; PO Box 30001
9700 RB Groningen; The Netherlands

Areas of Expertise

Big Data Bioinformatics Metagenomics Microbiomics

Decoding the exposome

Decoding the exposome

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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