Facts

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. John Baines

Phone: +49(0)431-500-30310
Institute: Institute for Experimental Medicine (IEM) / Kiel University (CAU), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI)
Address: Michaelisstr. 5, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Group: Evolutionary Medicine

John Baines serves as a professor in Evolutionary Genomics at Kiel University and is principle investigator of P10. He holds an SH Excellence Chair, is speaker of Clinician Scientist Program in Evolutionary Medicine and coordinates the function area Evolutionary Medicine of the master program Medical Life Science at Kiel University.

Special fields:

  • Evolution
  • Genomics
  • Host-microbiome interactions

Project-related publications

Metabolic modelling reveals the aging-associated decline of host-microbiome metabolic interactions in mice.

Lena Best, Thomas Dost, Daniela Esser, Stefano Flor, Andy Mercado Gamarra, Madlen Haase, A Samer Kadibalban, Georgios Marinos, Alesia Walker, Johannes Zimmermann, Rowena Simon, Silvio Schmidt, Jan Taubenheim, Sven Künzel, Robert Häsler, Sören Franzenburg, Marco Groth, Silvio Waschina, Philip Rosenstiel, Felix Sommer, Otto W Witte, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, John F Baines, Christiane Frahm, Christoph Kaleta

Nature microbiology
2025
P5

Commensal bacteria weaken the intestinal barrier by suppressing epithelial neuropilin-1 and Hedgehog signaling.

Giulia Pontarollo, Bettina Kollar, Amrit Mann, My Phung Khuu, Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi, Franziska Bayer, Inês Brandão, Valeriya V Zinina, Jennifer Hahlbrock, Frano Malinarich, Maximilian Mimmler, Sudhanshu Bhushan, Federico Marini, Wolfram Ruf, Meriem Belheouane, John F Baines, Kristina Endres, Scott M Reba, Verena K Raker, Carsten Deppermann, Christoph Welsch, Markus Bosmann, Natalia Soshnikova, Benoit Chassaing, Mattias Bergentall, Felix Sommer, Fredrik Bäckhed, Christoph Reinhardt

Nature metabolism
2023

Genome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota.

Jun Wang, Louise B Thingholm, Jurgita Skiecevičienė, Philipp Rausch, Martin Kummen, Johannes R Hov, Frauke Degenhardt, Femke-Anouska Heinsen, Malte C Rühlemann, Silke Szymczak, Kristian Holm, Tönu Esko, Jun Sun, Mihaela Pricop-Jeckstadt, Samer Al-Dury, Pavol Bohov, Jörn Bethune, Felix Sommer, David Ellinghaus, Rolf K Berge, Matthias Hübenthal, Manja Koch, Karin Schwarz, Gerald Rimbach, Patricia Hübbe, Wei-Hung Pan, Raheleh Sheibani-Tezerji, Robert Häsler, Philipp Rosenstiel, Mauro D’Amato, Katja Cloppenborg-Schmidt, Sven Künzel, Matthias Laudes, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Wolfgang Lieb, Ute Nöthlings, Tom H Karlsen, John F Baines, Andre Franke

Nature genetics
2016

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