Team
Principle investigator
Team
Suzanne de Bruijn, MSc
Position Post-doc June 2021-
Position PhD candidate March 2017-May 2021
PhD defense 18 February 2022
Topic Solving the unsolved sensory diseases by combining transcriptome sequencing of sensory progenitor cells and whole genome sequencing
Janine Reurink, MSc
Position PhD candidate 2018-2022
Topic Identification and treatment of non-coding USH2A variants underlying Usher syndrome and retinitis pigmentosa
Tabea Riepe, MSc
Position PhD candidate 2020-2024
Topic Improvement of splice prediction in the retina by deep learning methods
Rebekkah Hitti-Malin, PhD
Position Post-doc August 2020-
Topic Underlying genetic causes in macular dystrophies through a smMIPs based approach
Research interns
Alumni
Victor de Jager, MSc
Position Bioinformatician
Topic Whole genome sequencing in unexplained IRD cases as well as the identification of modifier variants in Stargardt disease
Zeinab Fadaie-van Gestel, MSc
Position PhD-candidate July 2017-June 2021
Topic Identification of non-canonical and deep-intronic splice defects underlying inherited retinal disease
PhD defense to be scheduled
Current position Postdoc Tytgat-lab, Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
Sanne Verbakel, MD, PhD
Position PhD candidate 2015-2019
Topic Inherited retinal diseases; studies on genotype, phenotype and treatment
PhD defense 13 December 2019
Current position Ophthalmologist in training, Radboudumc
Femke Bults, BSc
Position Research technician
Period October 2018 - June 2020
Current position Research technician, Department of Translational Metabolic Laboratory
