Past members

Postdocs

Yuliia Orlova February 2021 - January 2023

Project: Evolution of metabolic networks in the Origin of Life

Next position: Consultant SURF Research Cloud

PhD students

Nienke Koopman Graduated December 5th 2024

Thesis: Microbes in the inflamed gut

Research assistants

Roel van der Ploeg November 2020 - June 2021

Project: Building a analysis pipeline to study evolution in the infant gut from timeseries metagenome data

Next position: PhD student at the University of Amsterdam

Guests

Abimbola Adekhanmbi Visiting postdoc June 2024 - September 2024

Project: Spread of antibiotic resistance across various reservoirs in Nigeria

MSc Students

Dana Sluis MSc student Biomedical Sciences VU February 2024 - July 2024

Thesis: The repeatability of bacterial evolution: A study on the loss of a blue fluorescent protein gene in Escherichia Coli

Archontis Goumagias Bioinformatics and Systembiology Joint Degree VU-UvA September 2022 - October 2023

Thesis: Functional consequences of genomic and single-nucleotide variation in infant gut microbiome time series

Leonardo Claudin Bioinformatics and Systembiology Joint Degree VU-UvA January 2023 - August 2023

Thesis: Evolutionary response of bacterial strains to drug therapy

Bodine Slegte Biomedical Sciences UvA October 2021 - July 2022

Thesis: How do resistant and sensitive TEM-1 ß-lactam bacteria coexist in conditions with cefotaxime and glycerol concentrations?

Pjotr van der Jagt Biomedical Sciences UvA January 2021 - July 2021

Thesis: Unravelling the metabolic potential of a three-species gut bacteria composition using genome-scale metabolic models

Next position: PhD Sainsbury Laboratory - Renske Vroomans group

Agathe Meulenbelt-Zumer Sorbonne Université January 2021 - July 2021

Thesis: Evolution of antibiotic resistance in E. coli under nematode predation

Randi Stoop Biomedical Sciences UvA December 2020 - August 2021

Thesis: The influence of predator-prey induced evolved Escherichia coli on Caenorhabditis elegans

Luca Rieger Biological Sciences UvA July 2020 - April 2021

Thesis: Recreating evolution in the lab

BSc Students

Jordi de Theye Biomedical Sciences UvA September 2023 - February 2024

Thesis: Combined growth and metabolite analysis of E. coli, E. faecalis and L. lactis can provide insight into interbacterial interactions

Isabel Verhijde Biomedical Sciences UvA February 2023 - June 2023

Thesis: A co-culture of E. coli and E. cloacae stimulates the growth of C. parapsilosis

Carlijn Schutte Biomedical Sciences VU February 2023 - May 2023

Thesis: Evolution of Escherichia coli in a Predator-Prey Model: Colonization and Survival of Caenorhabditis elegans

Laura Hannema Bèta-gamma UvA February 2021 - June 2021

Thesis: Investigating the limits of a species interaction model with metabolite mediated toy models

Annemieke Willms Bèta-gamma UvA September 2020 - February 2021

Thesis: Predicting dynamics of human gut microbiota using species interaction mathematical modelling