Group leaders
Below are the principal investigators associated with the research groups of the Bijvoet Centre. For some groups, this includes principal investigators embedded in the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences.
prof. dr. A.F.M. (Maarten) Altelaar
Professor
dr. M.P. (Marc) Baggelaar
Assistant Professor- The use of chemical proteomics strategies to study protein lipidation and small molecule - drug interactions
prof. dr. M. (Marc) Baldus
Professor- We develop and apply magnetic resonance-based approaches to unravel complex molecular systems in vitr0, in situ & in vivo.
dr. E. (Eva) Bertosin
Assistant Professor
dr. A.J. (Arnold) Boersma
Associate Professor
- The computational structural biology group develops bioinformatics and computational approaches to predict and model biomolecular interactions at atomic level.
prof. dr. G.J.P.H. (Geert-Jan) Boons
Professor- Research interest focuses on the synthesis and biological functions of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates
prof. dr. Ineke Braakman
Professor
dr. ir. B. (Bas) van Breukelen
Associate Professor- Masters Coordinator Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity; UIPS DI PhD programme coordinator; Bioinformatics in the field of Proteomics Research
prof. dr. E.J. (Eefjan) Breukink
Professor
dr. G.E. (Gert) Folkers
Assistant Professor
- The lab innovates cryo-EM approaches to study the biogenesis and quality control of proteins at cellular membranes
prof. dr. P. (Piet) Gros
Professor- Understanding of molecular mechanisms based on 3D protein structures by cryo-EM and crystallography
prof. dr. A.J.R. (Albert) Heck
Professor- Research interests are in technology development for proteomics and mass spectrometry applied to immunology and pharmaceutics
dr. S.C. (Stuart) Howes
Assistant Professor- We use correlative light and electron microscopy to study cellular stress responses and cytoskeleton structures.
dr. H. (Hugo) van Ingen
Assistant Professor- The van Ingen team uses modern NMR methods to investigate the molecular basis of chromatin function
prof. dr. ir. B.J.C. (Bert) Janssen
Professor- The Janssen lab uses structural biology, biophysical and cellular techniques to disentangle intercellular signaling and adhesion mechanisms in our tissues.
prof. dr. C.M. (Christian) Kaiser
Professor
dr. L.M.J. (Loes) Kroon-Batenburg
Assistant Professor
dr. A.I.P.M. (Toon) de Kroon
Associate Professor- We investigate the mechanisms governing membrane lipid homeostasis in the reference eukaryote S. cerevisiae.
dr. M.H. (Martin) Lutz
External Cooperation Coordinator- Crystal structure determinations of small-molecular and macromolecular compounds
Fabio Marino MSc
Assistant Professor
prof. dr. A. (Tassos) Perrakis
Professor
dr. K.R. (Karli) Reiding
Assistant Professor- Glycoproteomics and glycoprotein analysis
- Protein damage control: new molecular strategies for protein aggregation diseases such as Alzheimer or Huntington, exploiting the cellular chaperone machinery
dr. T. (Tessa) Sinnige
Assistant Professor- My lab studies the molecular mechanisms of protein aggregation in vivo using the model organism C. elegans
dr. Peter van der Sluijs
Associate Professor
dr. J. (Joost) Snijder
Assistant Professor- We study virus-host interactions with structural proteomics techniques
dr. K.E. (Kelly) Stecker
Assistant Professor- My research applies innovative mass spectrometry approaches to understand protein regulation in cancer, with a focus on immune-tumor cell signaling
dr. M.H. (Markus) Weingarth
Associate Professor
dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai
Associate Professor- Cellular structural biology of fertilization: our group combines cryo-electron microscopy with light microcopy to unravel the molecular basis of fertilization