About Gut-Research
Research group within the Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research in Amsterdam
Team
Meet Our team
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
Paula Metselaar
MScTraining & education: Bachelor Liberal Arts & Sciences, Erasmus University College, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Master Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University.
Skills: Cell culture, qPCR, data analysis.
Theo B. M. Hakvoort
Ass. prof, PhDTraining & education: Biochemistry, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Skills: Protein chemistry, enzymology, molecular biology, stable isotopes, next generation sequencing
Bruno Sovran
Staff scientist, PhDTraining & 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
MSc - (PhD-student)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
MSc - (PhD-student)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
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.
Patricia H.P. van Hamersveld
BAS - (Technician)Training & education: Zoology (including article 12) at HLO/Life Sciences Hogeschool Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Skills: Experimental animal techniques, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, cell culture.
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
Leonie C.S. de Vries
MD - (clinical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine at University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Skills: Culturing (primary) cells, translational science.
Anne S. ten Hove
MD - (PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Skills: Translational science, neurogastroenterology
Emmeline G. Peters
MD - (clinical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine at University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Skills: medical education
David J. (Daan) Brinkman
MD - (clincical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine, University of Maastricht (the Netherlands).
Skills: Clinical research, translational research, medical education
Manon de Krijger
MD - (clinical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine at University of Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Skills: Medical education, translational research
Isabelle A.M. van Thiel
MSc - (PhD-student)Training & education: Molecular Life Scienes, Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
Skills: RNAseq, Immunoprecipitation, Immunofluorescence and Confocal Microscopy, (q)PCR, In Situ Hybridization
Shafaque Rahman
MSc - (PhD-student)Training & education: Biology (specialization Microbiology), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Skills: ELISA, qPCR, SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting, Immunofluorescence microscopy, cloning
Ahmed Elfiky
MD - (PhD fellow)Training & education: Human Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt, T cell Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Skills: Cell culture, Flowcytometry, Immunology & Immunomodulation+
Ishtu L. Hageman
MD, MSc - (clincical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine; University of Amsterdam, Infection & Immunity; Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Skills: immunology, PCR, multi-color flow cytometry, fluorescence-activated cell sorting
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
Charlotte Verburgt
MD - (clinical PhD fellow)Training & education: Medicine at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
Skills: medical education
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)
Margriet Vervoordeldonk
PhD - (Lecturer)Training & education: Master Biochemistry; University of Utrecht; PhD in Biochemistry, University of Utrecht.
Skills: Bioelectronics; Immunology; Preclinical models for arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease; Early Clinical Development.
Konstantina Zafeiropoulou
BSc, MScTraining & 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.
Collaborators
Joep P.M. Derikx
MD, PhDTraining & 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
PhDTraining & 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, PhDTraining & education: Medicine, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Biology/Chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands).
Skills: Clinical Molecular Genetics, Epigenetics
Mark Davids
MScTraining & education: Biotechnology - Bioprocess Engineering, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Skills: Bioinformatics; Microbiology
Menno de Winther
Prof, PhDTraining & education: Biology, University of Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Skills: Macrophages, Inflammation, Mouse models, Signal transduction, Epigenetics, Cytokines, Atherosclerosis.
Peter Henneman
PhDTraining & education: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Leiden, The Netherlands)