Members
Berend Snel
Professor
Kirsten ten Tusscher
Professor
Rob de Boer
Professor
Ronald Bontrop
Professor
Paulien Hogeweg
Honorary professor
Bas E Dutilh
Visiting Professor
Basten Snoek
PI
Can Kesmir
PI
Michael F Seidl
PI
Rutger Hermsen
PI
Josephine Daub
Assistant Professor
Lecturer in bioinformatics. Working on cancer- and evolutionary genomics
Leonie van Steijn
Lecturer
Lecturer on Programming and Statistics for MBLS
Laurens Krah
Lecturer
Working on: I support the Theoretical Biology group with their education in math (for biologists) and complexity courses (for sciences)
Arista Fourie
Post-Doc
Working on: Studying rhizosphere competency of root associated bacteria using metagenomics (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
Carlos Santana-Molina
Post-Doc
Working on: Evolution and diversification of eukaryotic metabolisms. (Supervisor: Berend Snel)
Chrats Melkonian
Post-Doc
Working on: modeling plant-microbiome interactions in the rhizosphere in response to plant stress. Part of the MiCRop project (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
Monica Garcia-Gomez
Post-Doc
Woking on: Multi-scale modeling of lateral root development (supervisor Kirsten Ten Tusscher)
Nick Snelders
Post-Doc
Working on: Microbiome manipulation by fungal plant pathogens (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Anouk van Westerhoven
PhD candidate
Working on: Genome analysis of fungal banana pathogens to detect pathogenicity genes (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Arpit Chandan Swain
PhD candidate
Working on: Modelling memory T cell maintenance (supervisor: Rob de Boer)
Bas van den Herik
PhD candidate
Working on: Regulation of sucrose/water transport and tuber growth by the StSWEET11/StSP6A interaction in potato (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
FA Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt
PhD candidate
Working on: modelling of metagenomic community dynamics (supervisors: Bas Dutilh, Berend Snel, Paulien Hogeweg)
Daniel Carrillo
PhD candidate
Working on: Studying evolution of crAss-like phage proteins (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
David Torres Sanchez
PhD candidate
Working on: Chromatin dynamics in fungal plant-pathogens (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Erdem Sanal
PhD candidate
Working on: Mathematical models of the immune system and T cell dynamics (supervisor: Rob de Boer)
Eva Deutekom
PhD candidate
Jeroen Meijer
PhD candidate
Working on: the evolution of microbial ecosystems in multilevel models (supervisors: Bas E Dutilh, Paulien Hogeweg)
Julian Vosseberg
PhD candidate
Working on: gene duplications during eukaryogenesis (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Juliane Schröter
PhD candidate
Working on: HIV modelling in children, viral and immune system dynamics associated with response to ART (supervisor: Rob de Boer)
Laura van Rooijen
PhD candidate
Working on: evolution of the kinetochore complex (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Leny van Wijk
PhD candidate
Working on: kinase evolution and function (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Lingyi Wu
PhD candidate
Working on: tools for viral identification from metagenomic data (Supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
Max Raas
PhD candidate
Working on: The evolution of the kinetochore (supervisors: Berend Snel, Geert Kops)
Meine D Boer
PhD candidate
Working on: Analysis and modelling of metagenomic and metabolomic data from the Caribbean Sea (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
Peter de Greef
PhD candidate
Working on: dynamics of immune repertoires (supervisor: Rob de Boer)
Petros Skiadas
PhD candidate
Working on: high-quality genomes of spinach downy mildew isolates to identify effectors (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Rick Beeloo
PhD candidate
Supervisor: Bas Dutilh
Sam von der Dunk
PhD candidate
Working on: modelling endosymbiosis and the evolution of genomes and networks during eukaryogenesis (supervisors: Berend Snel, Paulien Hogeweg)
Sarah Mehrem
PhD candidate
Working on: understanding the genetic and phenotypic variation in Lettuce via GWAS, QTL mapping and multi-omics data integration. (LettuceKnow project, supervisor: Basten Snoek)
Thea van den Berg
PhD candidate
Working on: root system adaptation (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
Tina Hauptfeld
PhD candidate
Working on: environmental metagenomics, phage-host interaction (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
Xin Zhang
PhD candidate
Working on: gene family evolution in fungi (supervisor: Michael F Seidl)
Bastiaan de Potter
Research Assistant
Working on: evolution and function of PRC1 & PRC2 (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Dieter Stoker
Education Assistant
Working on: Development of Basic Machine Learning for Bioinformatics course for the BiBC Master, other courses (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Alejandro Baars
MSc student
Working on: chromatin and expression data in the hybrid fungus Verticillium longisporum (supervisor: David Torres Sanchez)
Bram van Eijnatten
MSc student
Working on: modelling stochastic effects in gene regulation of E. Coli (supervisor: Laurens Krah)
Daniel Tieleman
MSc student
Working on: Identifying antibiotic resistance genes in metagenomic samples (supervisor: Rick Beeloo)
Daphne Kluitmans
MSc student
Working on: Polyspecificity of T cell receptor repertoire with single-cell data (supervisor: Peter de Greef)
Fleur Wallis
MSc student
Analyzing the influence of plant pathogens on abundance of Sphingomonads in the plant microbial community (supervisor: Nick Snelders)
Geerte Koster
MSc student
Working on: Predicting the effect of checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer patients using machine learning techniques (Supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Irene Bouwman
MSc student
Working on: Evolutionary transitions in individuality (Supervisor: Rutger Hermsen)
Iseult Leahy
MSc student
Working on: How gene order conservation is linked to gene expression regulation in the fungal genus Aspergillus (supervisor: Xin Zhang)
Juliette Luiselli
MSc student
Working on: The role of fission/fusion dynamics in maintaining genome integrity of mitochondria (supervisor: Paulien Hogeweg)
Levi van Doorn
MSc student
Working on: Assing the performance of phage-host prediction tools using paired viromics and total metagenomics datasets (supervisor: Lingyi Wu)
Lili Meszaros
MSc student
Working on: Modelling nitrate dynamics in split roots (supervisor: Bas van den Herik)
Marina Brand
MSc student
Working on: The role of CD4 T cell and immunoglobulin-mediated cross-reactivity with common cold human coronaviruses in COVID-19 disease outcome (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Muhamad Rifki Ramadhan
MSc student
Working on: Cross-reactivity of influenza and ADAMTS13 peptide as initiator of auto-immunity in acquired TTP (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Shane I Pullens
MSc student
Working on: Developing pipeline for detecting non-canonical, neo-antigens that originate from non-coding regions (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Shotaro Hato
MSc student
Working on: Identifying transposable element polymorphisms in fungal pathogens of bananas using short- and long-read sequencing data (supervisor: Anouk van Westerhoven)
Sofia Riera Vidal
MSc student
Working on: the systematic characterization of spinach downy mildew effectors (supervisor: Petros Skiadas)
Charlotte Adang
BSc student
Wprlong on: possible genetic interactions within pediatric myeloid leukemia with the use of DISCOVER (supervisor: Josephine Daub)
Ellen Stassen
BSc student
Working on: predicting autoimmune disease based on molecular mimicry (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Julia Hermens
BSc student
Working on: binding preferences of HLA molecules for different SARS-CoV-2 proteins (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
