Post-doctoral scientists
Annie Yang
“Plasmodium falciparum liver-stage biology and live, whole-parasite vaccine development”
January 2017 – September 2020
(co-supervising with Teun Bousema & Matthew McCall)
Marnix Vlot
“Prioritization of malaria drug discovery programs based on transmission capacity of resistance mechanism”
November 2018 – October 2019
(co-supervising with Koen Dechering, TropIQ)
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PhD candidates
Laura de Vries
“Steepen the Curve: The potential of pantothenamides in malaria control”
Now at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Graduation cum laude: December 2021
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Joachim Matz
“Life in a bubble. Host cell refurbishment by the malaria parasite”
Now at Bernard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Graduation: November 2016
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Technicians
Youri van Waardenburg
“Sporozoite & liver-stage antigen discovery”
November 2017 – August 2020
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MSc & BSc students
Barend Gijsbrechts
“Development of novel tools to study organelle division and distribution in Plasmodium falciparum”
Master Human Biology
January 2022 – July 2022
Megan Hannon
“The mysterious inserts in mitochondrial carrier proteins”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January 2022 – July 2022
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Kay van Son
“Determining subcellular localization of malaria parasite proteins during host switching”
Bachelor Biomedical Sciences
January 2022 – July 2022
Ezra Bekkering
“Shedding an (electronic) light on the Stomatin-like protein of Plasmodium falciparum”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease – Individual Elective
October 2021 – January 2022
Laura Akkerman
“Visualization of organelle division during schizogony in P. falciparum”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January – July 2021
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Mara van Rossum
“Optimization of mitochondrial enrichment to investigate mitochondrial carrier proteins in Plasmodium falciparum”
Master Microbiology
December 2020 – June 2021
Jacolien Timmerman
“What makes parasites stick”
Bachelor Biomedical Sciences
February – June 2020
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Paula Sureda Horrach
“Unravelling the Plasmodium falciparum Coenzyme A biosynthesis pathway”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January – July 2020
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Eda Erendemir
“Mitochondrial protein complexity during Plasmodium falciparum sexual differentiation”
Master Medical Biology
November 2019 – May 2020
Marijn Letterie
“Exploring putative mitochondrial proteins in Plasmodium berghei”
Master Medical Biology
November 2019 – April 2020
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Lilian Jeulink
“Development of novel fluorescent Plasmodium falciparum reference lines using CRISPR-Cas-based genetic tools”
Bachelor Biologie en medisch laboratorium onderzoek (HLO – HAN)
September 2019 – February 2020
Jari Verbunt
“Development of novel experimental genetic approaches in P. falciparum”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January – July 2019
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Peter Bouwman
“PHISTb Protein: Characterisation of the Ring-Exported Surface Antigen-2 (RESA-2) in Plasmodium falciparum NF54″
Master Medical Biology
January – July 2019
Michelle de Ridder
“Genetic targeting of biologically interesting mitochondrial proteins in Plasmodium berghei”
Master Medical Biology
July 2018 – May 2019
Gitte Mostert
“Improving and optimizing CRISPR/Cas9-based approaches to generate Plasmodium falciparum PHIST knockout lines”
Bachelor Biologie en medisch laboratorium onderzoek (HLO – HAN)
September 2018 – February 2019
Aniek Garritsen
“Optimising methods to characterise mitochondrial proteins of Plasmodium falciparum”
Master Medical Biology
January – July 2018
Julie Verhoef
“CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing of pantothenamide resistance genes in P. falciparum”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January – July 2018
Charlotte Hoogstraaten
“Charaterisation of transmission-blocking antigen candidates in Plasmodium berghei development using novel genetic approaches”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January – July 2016
Laura de Vries
“Genetic targeting of mitochondrial membrane transport proteins in Plasmodium berghei using 5-color flow cytometry-assisted isolation”
Master Biomedical Sciences
October 2015 – June 2016
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PhD students – Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie
Sanketha Kenthirapalan
“Systematic experimental genetics of membrane transport proteins in Plasmodium berghei”
Now at Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Germany
Graduation: March 2014
Joana Haußig
“Genetic characterization of Plasmodium berghei apicoplast proteins”
Now at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
Graduation: March 2013
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Taco Kooij 