Dr. David Barnett

David Barnett is a research bioinformatician supporting the microbiome research group of Prof. John Penders. David uses advanced computational methods to study how the human microbiome contributes to health and disease, and how it can be affected by diet and medications. He develops bioinformatic workflows to extract information from terabytes of metagenomic sequence data and uses biostatistical techniques to make sense of this information in the context of human cohorts and clinical trials.

Besides research, David is an experienced educator. He has broad experience teaching on in various Maastricht University courses related to biomedical data, and he has delivered numerous workshops on microbiome data science at the UM and external events.