Members
Berend Snel
Professor
Kirsten ten Tusscher
Professor
Rob de Boer
Professor
Ronald Bontrop
Professor
Paulien Hogeweg
Honorary professor
Bas E Dutilh
PI
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
Arista Fourie
Post-Doc
Working on: Studying rhizosphere competency of root associated bacteria using metagenomics (supervisor: Bas Dutilh)
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)
Nick Snelders
Post-Doc
Working on: Microbiome manipulation by fungal plant pathogens (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Xiang Zhang
Post-Doc
Working on: Gene regulatory network modeling for C. elegans (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
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
Jaap Rutten
PhD candidate
Working on: emergence of developmental patterning in root tips through computational modelling (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
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)
Laurens Krah
PhD candidate
Working on: autocorrelations between mutations, effects of stochasticity of protein expression on bacterial growth (supervisor: Rutger Hermsen)
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)
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)
Nikos Pappas
Research Assistant
Working on: viral metagenomics (supervisor: Bas E Dutilh)
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)
Bryan van den Brand
MSc student
Working on: annotating crAssphage genes by grouping them based on a large metatranscriptomic sequencing database using e.g. expression levels and guilt-by-association (Supervisor: Daniel Carillo)
Chantal Versluis
MSc student
Working on: how cross-reactivity with common cold corona viruses due to differences in HLA molecules affects the severeness of Covid-19 (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Daniel Tieleman
MSc student
Working on: Identifying antibiotic resistance genes in metagenomic samples (supervisor: Rick Beeloo)
Erica Padial
MSc student
Working on: codon usage in prokaryote genomes from different environments and its relationship with protein function (supervisors: Jose Luis Lopez, Bas Dutilh)
Eva Lukas
MSc student
Working on: unravelling NK cell dynamics by modelling deuterium-labelling data (supervisor: Erdem Sanal)
Geerte Koster
MSc student
Working on: Predicting the effect of checkpoint inhibitor therapy for cancer patients using machine learning techniques (Supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Jeroen Saccheri
MSc student
Working on: developing models of antigen receptor repertoires in a very small vertebrate - Paedocypris sp. “Singkep” (supervisor: Rob de Boer)
Lili Meszaros
MSc student
Working on: Modelling nitrate dynamics in split roots (supervisor: Bas van den Herik)
Luc van Zon
MSc student
Working on: Metagenomics of pesticide-polluted drinking water wells (supervisor: Tina Hauptfeld)
Martijn Melissen
MSc student
Working on: Timing of duplication events during eukaryogenesis (supervisor: Julian Vosseberg)
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)
Oane Gros
MSc student
Working on: Modeling mitochondrial fission and fusion as top-down control of mitochondrial evolution (supervisor: Sam von der Dunk)
Reinier Groeneveld
MSc student
Working on: computational checkpoint blockade (inhibitor) therapy (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Ellen Stassen
BSc student
Working on: predicting autoimmune disease based on molecular mimicry (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
