Marnix Medema

Marnix Medema is a Personal Professor in Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & Research. His research focuses on computational approaches to understand microbial natural product biosynthesis, microbiome dynamics, and plant-microbe interactions. He leads projects on gene cluster discovery, AI-driven natural product science, and microbial synthetic communities.

His work bridges bioinformatics, genomics, and metabolomics. Key contributions include the antiSMASH tool for gene cluster analysis and the BGC Atlas web resource. He collaborates globally on topics like lichen biochemistry and crop microbiome resilience.

He supervises multiple PhD candidates exploring topics such as bacteriophage diversity modeling and natural product discovery via AI. His research has been featured in Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, and Nature Product Reports.