Group Leader
Taco Kooij
Assistant Professor
Radboudumc junior Principal Investigator
EMBO Young Investigator
Since September 2014
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Post-doctoral scientists
Nick Proellochs
Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow
“Characterisation of the Plasmodium PHIST protein family”
Since May 2018
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PhD candidates
Felix Evers
“Unravelling the Plasmodium mitochondrion: systematic functional characterization of an essential organelle for anti-malarial drug target identification”
Since October 2018
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Julie Verhoef
“Shedding a super-resolution light on mitochondrial fission during schizogony in human malaria parasites”
Since December 2019
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Cas Boshoven
“Functional characterization of unique parasite-specific mitochondrial carrier proteins”
Since March 2020
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Laura Akkerman
“Follow the drug: Unravelling specificity and activity of antimalarial pantothenamides”
Since December 2022
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Ezra Bekkering
“‘It’s a match!’: Uncovering the functions of sexual-stage malaria parasite vaccine targets”
Since December 2022
(co-supervising with Matthijs Jore & Teun Bousema)
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Technicians
Alex van der Starre
“Sporozoite & liver-stage antigen discovery”
Since October 2020
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MSc & BSc students
Aleksandra Nenova
“Visualizing organelle contact sites in human malaria parasites using cryo-expansion microscopy”
Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
January 2023 – July 2023
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Silvia Tassan-Lugrezin
“Functional characterization of Apicomplexan-specific Mitochondrial Carrier 1 (AMC1)”
Master Microbiology
September 2022 – March 2023
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“Studying malaria parasite biology during host switching using novel genetic tools”
6-month Research Project
September 2023 – onwards
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