Members
Berend Snel
Professor
Kirsten ten Tusscher
Professor
Rob de Boer
Emeritus professor
Ronald Bontrop
Emeritus professor
Paulien Hogeweg
Honorary professor
Bas E Dutilh
Visiting Professor
Basten Snoek
PI
Bram van Dijk
PI
Working on: Simulating complex microbial ecosystems to identify their fundamental rules
Can Kesmir
PI
Daniel Tamarit
PI
Working on: archaeal and bacterial genome evolution
Erika Tsingos
PI
Working on: Modelling animal development using multicellular models
Leonie van Steijn
Assistant Professor
Lecturer on Programming and Statistics for MBLS
Michael F Seidl
PI
Monica Garcia Gomez
PI
Working on: Multi-scale models of the mechanisms underlying plant decision making in regeneration, drought and warmth responses
Rutger Hermsen
PI
Vivek Bhardwaj
PI
Working on: Developing new bioinformatics tools and methods for quantitative genomics
Laura Dijkhuizen
Lecturer
Working on: PhD courses from basic programming to more advanced techniques like RNAseq, microbiome data analysis, and advanced data visualisation
Tina Hauptfeld
Lecturer
Lecturer for bioinformatics and programming in undergraduate studies of the Biology department
Bas van den Herik
Post-Doc
Working on: Regulation of sucrose/water transport and tuber growth by the StSWEET11/StSP6A interaction in potato (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
Benjamin Planterose Jimenez
Post-Doc
Working on: Modelling cellular fate decision making in the postembryonic M lineage of C. elegans (Supervisors: Erika Tsingos, Kirsten ten Tusscher)
Carlos Santana-Molina
Post-Doc
Working on: Evolution and diversification of eukaryotic metabolisms. (Supervisor: Berend Snel)
Paula Gomez-Zapata
Post-Doc
Working on: investigating the genomic features that drive the switch between the heteroecious and autoecious forms in the rust fungus Cronartium pini (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Saber Shakibi
Post-Doc
Working on: Modelling mechanics of cell migration (supervisor: Erika Tsingos)
Bram van Eijnatten
PhD Candidate
Working on: High throughput phenotyping of lettuce for GWAS using machine learning (supervisor: Basten Snoek)
Bryan Verhoef
PhD Candidate
Working on: numerical modelling of evolution in spatially structured bacterial populations (supervisors: Rutger Hermsen, Joost de Graaf)
David Giron Villalobos
PhD Candidate
Working on: Metagenomics of urobiomes in health and disease (supervisor: Michael Seidl, Bas Dutilh)
Fernando Sancho Gomez
PhD candidate
Working on: The role of histone post-translational modifications and transcription factor isoforms in cell fate decisions (Supervisor: Vivek Bhardwaj)
Janne Bibbe
PhD candidate
Working on: translating stress resistance models from A. thaliana to other (crop) species using comparative genomics and transcriptomics (supervisor: Berend Snel)
Jasper Bell
PhD candidate
Working on: Characterizing the genetic diversity and evolution of lettuce infecting Fusarium oxysporum (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Jeroen Meijer
PhD candidate
Working on: the evolution of microbial ecosystems in multilevel models (supervisors: Bas E Dutilh, Paulien Hogeweg)
Jeroen Saccheri
PhD candidate
Working on: Multi-Scale models of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
Josje Romeijn
PhD candidate
Working on: the role of transposable elements in fungal genome evolution (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
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)
Nienke Tan
PhD candidate
Working on: Modelling how membrane-actin linkers shape cell and tissue morphology in C.elegans (supervisor: Erika Tsingos)
Petros Skiadas
PhD candidate
Working on: high-quality genomes of spinach downy mildew isolates to identify effectors (supervisor: Michael Seidl)
Pieter Hart
PhD candidate
Working on: Archaeal and bacterial genome evolution supervisor (supervisor: Daniel Tamarit)
Rick Beeloo
PhD candidate
Supervisor: Bas Dutilh
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)
Sultan Nazir
PhD candidate
Working on: Multiscale models of phage evolution and bacterial pathogenicity (supervisor: Bram van Dijk)
Thijs van Loo
PhD candidate
Working on: Mechanistic modelling of heat and drought stress in Arabidopsis Thaliana. (supervisors: Kirsten ten Tusscher, Monica Garcia Gomez)
Oscar Jordan
Research Assistant
Working on: Developing new methods to impove our ability of predicting T-cell cross-reactivity (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Rens Dijkhuizen
Research Assistant
Working on: Phenomics and Genomics in Lettuce GWAS (supervisor: Basten Snoek)
Sibbe Bakker
Research Assistant
(supervisor Michael Seidl)
Anton van Galen
MSc student
Working on: Modeling how cells in the plant root tip regulate Asymetric cell divisions to form cortex layers (supervisor: Kirsten ten Tusscher)
D Erdem Kertmen
MSc student
Working on: A random-forest driven tool for predicting the cross-reactivity of CD8+ T-cells (supervisor: Can Kesmir)
Eleni Manousou
MSc student
Working on: unraveling the effect of different substrate amendments on the microbiome and plant yield (supervisor: Bram van Eijnatten)
Eleonora Paganin
MSc student
Working on: Identifying a set of markers among the pre-LECA duplicated genes to help solve the root of the eToL. (supervisor: Carlos Santana Molina)
Griffin Kutler Dodd
MSc student
Working on: Optimizing HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies using fitness landscape design (supervisor: Rob de Boer & Paulien Hogeweg)
Nikki Landzaat
MSc student
Working on: modelling cell proliferation, quiescence and differentiation in the C. elegans postembryonic mesodermal lineage (supervisor: Benjamin Planterose Jiménez)
Suzanne van Melzen
MSc student
Working on: Metabolic modeling of pathogen-inhibiting interactions within microbial communities in the plant phyllosphere (supervisor: Chrats Melkonian)
Teun Geurts
MSc student
Working on: We aim to uncover the polymorphic master regulators of gene expression in Lactuca sativa roots (supervisor: Sarah Mehrem)
Wilco Hermens
MSc student
Working on: Predicting disease outbreaks based on phylogenetic data (supervisor: Sultan Nazir)
Wouter Compaan
MSc student
Working on: spatial models in relation to generalists, specialist and metabolic complexity (supervisor: Paulien Hogeweg)
Bernadeta Savicka
BSc studentl
Working on: susceptibility of different proteins to changes in amino acid usage between mesophiles and thermophiles (supervisor: Daniel Tamarit)
Cos van Eijck
BSc student
Working on: developing a pipeline to test if Arabidopsis thermomorphogenesis regulatory mechanisms are conserved in crop species like tomato (supervisor: Monica Garcia Gomez)
