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Onderzoek Department of Genetics Staff
University Medical Center Groningen

All research staff

The research section comprises PhD students, postdocs and senior staff with backgrounds in genetics, molecular biology, statistical genetics, epidemiology and bioinformatics. We are a lively, international group with researchers and staff from all over the world.

Name

Position

Principal investigators

Prof. Nine Knoers, MD, PhD Head of Department

Prof. Cisca Wijmenga, PhD

Lodewijk Sandkuil Professor of Human Genetics

Prof. Rolf Sijmons, MD, PhD

Professor of Medical Translational Genetics, Clinical Geneticist

Prof. Conny van Ravenswaaij, MD, PhD Professor of Clinical Dysmorphology, Clinical Geneticist

Prof. Morris Swertz, PhD

Head of the Genomics Coordination Center and MOLGENIS team, Professor of Biomedical BiG Data Science

Prof. Lude Franke, PhD Professor of Functional Genomics
Prof. Jingyuan Fu, PhD Professor of Systems Medicine
Prof. Alexandra (Sasha) Zhernakova, MD, PhD Professor of the Human Genome and Exposome

Eva van der Berg, PhD

Associate professor, Cytogenetics

Vinod Kumar Magadi Gopalaiah, PhD Assistant professor, Complex diseases
Iris Jonkers, PhD Adjunct professor, Immunogenetics

Prof. Dineke Verbeek, PhD

Associate professor, Neurogenetics

Yvonne Vos, PhD

Clinical molecular geneticist

Jan Jongbloed, PhD

Genome Diagnostics

Mieke Kerstjens, MD, PhD

Clinical geneticist

Jan C. Oosterwijk, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist
Peter van den Akker, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist, research fellow in genetic skin disorders, head of DEB database

Birgit Sikkema-Raddatz, PhD

Head of Genome Diagnostics

Kristin Abbott, PhD

Researcher Genome Diagnostics

Klaas Kok, PhD

Senior researcher

Prof. Sebo Withoff, PhD Associate professor, Complex diseases
Cleo van Diemen, PhD

Coordinator of Next-Generation Sequencing, Genome Analysis Facility, Development and Innovation section

Helga Westers, PhD

Teaching coordinator, Researcher Development and Innovation section

Tom de Koning, MD, PhD

Senior researcher, Inborn errors of metabolism

Monique van der Wijst, PhD

Assistant Professor in Functional Genomics

Postdoctoral researchers

Joeri van der Velde, PhD Postdoc Swertz group  (Genomics Coordination Center)
Patrick Deelen, PhD Postdoc Franke group and Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Lennart Johansson, PhD Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)
Pieter Neerincx, PhD Postdoc and project manager Swertz group (Genomics Coordination Center)

Alex Kurilshikov, PhD

Researcher in Zhernakova group
Peter van den Akker, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist, researcher, head of DEB database
Paul van der Zwaag, MD, PhD Clinical geneticist, researcher

Research Technicians

Mathieu Platteel Research Coordinator

Michiel Fokkens

Research technician

Astrid Maatman Research technician
Rutger Modderman Research technician

Jelkje Bergsma

Technician genome analysis facility

Scientific editor

Kate Mc Intyre, PhD Editor and webmaster

Emeritus Faculty

Prof. Irene van Langen, MD, PhD

Emeritus professor of Clinical Genetics

Gerard te Meerman, PhD

Emeritus Associate professor, Mathematical genetics

Laatst gewijzigd:13 november 2023 14:28