Our team
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Wouter de Jonge
Prof, PhD - (Group Leader)
Training & education: Biomedical; University of Utrecht, Columbia University, University of Amsterdam, University of Oxford.
Skills: Translational science, private sector partnerships, mucosal immunology, epigenetics.
René M. van den Wijngaard
Ass. prof, PhD - (Coord. IBS Research)
Training & education: PhD at Pathology Department, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Skills: motility, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), visceral hypersensitivity, mast cells, micro- and mycobiota
Anje A. te Velde
Ass. prof, PhD - (Principal Investigator)
Training & education: Medical Biology, Free University Amsterdam, PhD at the University of Amsterdam
Skills: Immunology, Cell biology.
Jurgen Seppen
Ass. prof, PhD - (Principal Educator)
Training & education: Biology at University of Groningen (the Netherlands)
Skills: Molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, teaching
Theo B. M. Hakvoort
Ass. prof, PhD
Training & education: Biochemistry, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Skills: Protein chemistry, enzymology, molecular biology, stable isotopes, next generation sequencing
Bruno Sovran
Staff scientist, PhD
Training & education: MSc at Nestlé Research Center (Lausanne, Switzerland), PhD at Wageningen University (the Netherlands).
Skills: Translational science, in vivo experiments, cell culture, molecular biology, microbiology (bacteria and fungi).
Caroline Oostveen-Verseijden
BAS - (Project manager, Technician)
Training & education: Medical Biology at Hogeschool Alkmaar (the Netherlands); working with lab animals (article 12) and radio activity (level 5b); culturing cells and tissues course, molecular biology course.
Skills: Flow cytometry, (primary) cell culture, qPCR, ELISA, in vivo experiments.
Mohammed Ghiboub
Staff Scientist, PhD
Training & education: Pharmacy, Djillali Liabes University (Algeria), Pharmacology, Strasbourg University (France), Host-Graft relationship, Franche-Comté University (France)
Skills: Immunohistochemistry, qPCR, Cell culture, Mouse model of atopic dermatitis, Pharmacology and Immunology
Andrew Y.F. Li Yim
Staff Scientist, PhD
Training & education: Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands); Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College of Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Skills: in vitro research (qPCR, cloning, pulldown assays), in silico research (data analyses in R, phylogenetics, scripts in Perl
Isabelle A.M. van Thiel
Staff Scientist, PhD
Training & education: Molecular Life Scienes, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Skills: RNAseq, Immunoprecipitation, Immunofluorescence and Confocal Microscopy, (q)PCR, In Situ Hybridization
Olaf Welting
MSc - (Technician)
Training & education: Biology at University of Utrecht (the Netherlands); working with lab animals (article 9) and with radio activity (level 5b); immunology, qPCR and statistics courses.
Skills: motility, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), visceral hypersensitivity, mast cells.
Iris Admiraal-van den Berg
BAS - (Technician)
Training & education: Biology and Medical Laboratory Research; Hogeschool van Hall Larenstein, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Skills: Cell culture, Organoids, Immunohistochemistry, qPCR
Paula Metselaar
MSc
Training & education: Bachelor Liberal Arts & Sciences, Erasmus University College, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Master Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University.
Skills: Cell culture, qPCR, data analysis.
Claire P.M. van Helsdingen
MD - (clinical PhD fellow)
Training & education: Medicine, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Skills: medical education
Irini A.M. Kreulen
MSc - (PhD-student)
Training & education: Pharmacy, University of Utrecht (BSc); Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University (MSc), The Netherlands.
Skills: Cell biology, (Mucosal) Immunology, (primary and organoid) cell culture, (q)PCR, (fluorescence) microscopy, Western Blotting, ELISA
Gemma Pitotti
BSc, BRes - (PhD-student)
Training & education: Biotechnology at Imperial College London (UK), Systems and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London (UK)
Skills: Organoid and cell culture, Systems Biology.
Naomi Wieser
MSc - (PhD-student)
Training & education: Master in Metagenomics and biology, Bard College (USA), Master in Biomedical sciences (Immunology and oncology), University of Lausanne.
Skills: Metagenomics, statistical analysis, microbiology technics (transposon mutagenesis) , FACS, qPCR, microbes growth (viral, bacterial and fungal)
Konstantina Zafeiropoulou
MSc – (PhD-Student)
Training & education: Bachelor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece; Medicine MSc (by research), Department of Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow, UK.
Skills: Cell culture, qPCR, targeted metabolomics, ELISA, luminex, microbiology, bioinformatics.
Ivan C.N. Fung
MSc – PhD-Student
Training and education:
Bachelor & Master Biomedical Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
Skills:
Translational research, Cell culture, FACS, Western blot, IHC, qPCR
Yannick van Schajik
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
Master Biomedical Sciences with major in biomedical data analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Skills:
In vitro research; microbiology, (anaerobic) cell culture, qPCR, sequencing library preparation.
In silico research; data analysis in R and Python, metagenome and transcriptome analysis.
Lilly Bantavi
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
• BSc. with an integrated Master’s degree at the University of Ioannina in Greece à Biology and Biotechnology
• MSc. at Utrecht University à Regenerative Medicine & Technology
• PhD. student at University Hospital Bonn; Department of Surgery; Lab of Intestinal Immunopathophysiology
Skills:
qPCR, WB, Flow Cytometry, IF microscopy (+confocal), cell culture (primary, cell lines, organoids), mouse model of intestinal anastomotic healing/leakage, work with small experimental animals (article 9) OR more general (not sure how you prefer it): in vivo and in vitro experiments, molecular biology.
Florine Jiwa
MD (Clinical PhD fellow)
Training and education:
Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Skills:
Clinical research, translational research, medical education
Femke Mol
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (specialization in patient-oriented research, experimental internal medicine and biomedical data analyses)
Skills:
epigenomics, transcriptomics, single-cell DNA methylation, FACS
Gemma Pitotti
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training:
College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University (BSc); Drug Innovation, Utrecht University (MSc)
Skills:
(Organoid) cell culture, (q)PCR, ELISA, Western Blotting, immunohistochemistry
Junhuan Mou
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training & education:
Master of Medicine, Chongqing Medical University(China).
Skills:
cell/fungi culture, cellzscopy, (fluorescence/confocal) microscopy, flow cytometry, medical education.
Kenneth L. Overberg
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
BSc and MSc Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Skills:
Cell culture, ELISA, Western Blotting, Immunofluorescence.
Roni Weiss
MSc (data analist)
Training and education:
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Bar Ilan University (BIU), Israel
Skills:
NGS data analysis, scripting in R/python
Tianqi Mu
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
Bachelor, Animal Science, Nanjing Agriculture University, China.
Master, Animal Nutrition and Feed Science, China Agriculture University, China.
Skills:
Cell and Organoid culture, Microbe culture (bacteria, fungi), qPCR, Western-blot, Immunohistochemistry.
Jiarong Li
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
Immunology, Wuhan University (China); Biological Science, Nanjing Normal University (China).
Skills:
in vitro research (PCR, WB, FACS)
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Virginia Bruno
MSc (PhD-Student)
Training and education:
MSc Biomedical Sciences
Skills:
organoids, iPSCs, in vitro models
Collaborators
Joep Derikx
MD, PhD
Training & education: Medicine, University of Maastricht; PhD, Department of Surgery, University of Maastricht; Surgery (resident followed by surgeon), Sittard, MUMC in Maastricht and EKZ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Skills: Pediatric surgery, Gastro-Intestinal surgery and Endocrine surgery.
Ric E.A.F. van Tol
PhD
Training & education: Biology, University of Groningen; Transplantation Immunology, University of Minnesota Minneapolis; PhD in Medicine, Leiden University; Postdoc in Gastrointestinal Disease Research (1993-1997), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
Skills: Mucosal Immune physiology, Pediatric Nutrition Research, Industrial Research and Innovation Management
Marcel Mannens
Prof, PhD
Training & education: Medicine, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Biology/Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
Skills: Clinical Molecular Genetics, Epigenetics
Mark Davids
MSc
Training & education: Biotechnology - Bioprocess Engineering, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Skills: Bioinformatics; Microbiology
Menno de Winther
Prof, PhD
Training & education: Biology, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Skills: Macrophages, Inflammation, Mouse models, Signal transduction, Epigenetics, Cytokines, Atherosclerosis.
Misha Luyer
MD
Current employement: Catharina Hospital Eindhoven (the Netherlands).
Peter Henneman
PhD
Training & education: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
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