January Weiner

January Weiner

Scientist

CUBI, Berlin Institute of Health, Germany

Email: january.weiner@bih-charite.de

 

 

 

 

VALIDATE Role

Network Investigator

 

Research area keywords

Bioinformatics, biomarkers, transcriptomics, metabolomics

 

Biography

Biomarkers in tuberculosis: I am interested in understanding the biology of infection from the biomarker data and in the discrimination of incipient, subclinical TB.

Individual variability: I think that individual variability of host responses in diseases is an underestimated area of TB biomarker research.

Functional analysis: with new tools I try to bridge the gap between high throughput data and understanding the underlying biology. For this, I developed the R package tmod (http://tmod.online)

 

Key Publications:

  • Zyla, Joanna, et al. "Gene set enrichment for reproducible science: comparison of CERNO and eight other algorithms." Bioinformatics (2019).
  • Weiner, J., Maertzdorf, J., Sutherland, J. S., Duffy, F. J., Thompson, E., Suliman, S., ... & Hanekom, W. A. (2018). Metabolite changes in blood predict the onset of tuberculosis. Nature communications, 9(1), 5208.