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Lecturer in bioinformatics. Working on cancer- and evolutionary genomics

Working on: Functional and metabolic profiles based on codon usage bias in prokaryotic genomes and metagenomes (supervisors: Bas Dutilh, Ronnie de Jonge)

Working on: Microbiome manipulation by fungal plant pathogens (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Working on: Gene regulatory network modeling for C. elegans (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)

Working on: Genome analysis of fungal banana pathogens to detect pathogenicity genes (supervisor: Michael Seidl)

Working on: Modelling memory T cell maintenance (supervisor: Rob de Boer)

Working on: Regulation of sucrose/water transport and tuber growth by the StSWEET11/StSP6A interaction in potato (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)

Working on: modelling of metagenomic community dynamics (supervisors: Bas Dutilh, Berend Snel, Paulien Hogeweg)

Working on: Studying evolution of crAss-like phage proteins (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)

Working on: Chromatin dynamics in fungal plant-pathogens (supervisor: Michael Seidl)

Working on: Mathematical models of the immune system and T cell dynamics (supervisor: Rob de Boer)


Working on: emergence of developmental patterning in root tips through computational modelling (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)

Working on: the evolution of microbial ecosystems in multilevel models (supervisors: Bas E Dutilh, Paulien Hogeweg)

Working on: gene duplications during eukaryogenesis (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Working on: HIV modelling in children, viral and immune system dynamics associated with response to ART (supervisor: Rob de Boer)

Working on: evolution of the kinetochore complex (supervisor: Berend Snel)

Working on: autocorrelations between mutations, effects of stochasticity of protein expression on bacterial growth (supervisor: Rutger Hermsen)

Working on: kinase evolution and function (supervisor: Berend Snel)

Working on: tools for viral identification from metagenomic data (Supervisor: Bas Dutilh)

Working on: mechanics of lateral root formation (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)

Working on: dynamics of immune repertoires (supervisor: Rob de Boer)

Working on: high-quality genomes of spinach downy mildew isolates to identify effectors (supervisor: Michael Seidl)

Supervisor: Bas Dutilh
Working on: modelling endosymbiosis and the evolution of genomes and networks during eukaryogenesis (supervisors: Berend Snel, Paulien Hogeweg)

Working on: understanding the genetic and phenotypic variation in Lettuce via GWAS, QTL mapping and multi-omics data integration. (LettuceKnow project, supervisor: Basten Snoek)

Working on: root system adaptation (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)

Working on: environmental metagenomics, phage-host interaction (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)

Working on: gene family evolution in fungi (supervisor: Michael F Seidl)

Working on: viral metagenomics (supervisor: Bas E Dutilh)

Working on: Mathematical modeling of T cells proliferation and differentiation (supervisor: Arpit Chandan Swain)

Supervisor: Julian Vosseberg

Working on: analysing genetic variation in lettuce by a GWAS using k-mers ('lettuceknow' project, supervisor: Sarah Mehrem)

Working on: codon usage in prokaryote genomes from different environments and its relationship with protein function (supervisors: Jose Luis Lopez, Bas Dutilh)

Working on: Rothera microbial metagenome timeseries for species identification, clustering and phage-host prediction (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)

Working on: Horizontal transfer of transposable elements between fungi (supervisor: Michael Seidl)

Working on: Cross-reactivity of influenza and ADAMTS13 peptide as initiator of auto-immunity in acquired TTP (supervisor: Can Kesmir)

Working on: Evolution of spiteful behaviours under different interaction scales (supervisor: Rutger Hermsen)

Working on: high throughput plant phenotyping and system genetics (supervisor: Basten Snoek)

Working on: Comparative Genomics: Transposon diversity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations (supervisor: Michael Seidl)

Operon organisation and metabolism in E. coli (supervisors: Michael Seidl, Rutger Hermsen)

Working on: making a pipeline that visualizes in which organisms a given input gene occurs (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)