Members
Postdoc position available
We have an opening for a postdoc position. If you're eager to study transcription regulation and are excited about the work we do in the lab, please reach out by emailing Hanneke with a motivation and your cv.
Employees
- Hanneke started as a group leader in 2023 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Adelman lab at Harvard Medical School. She believes the lab will be the most fun AND produce the highest quality science if its members are happy, inspired, their full selves, and in charge of their own professional development. She cares about mentoring young scientists inside and outside the lab.
- Nathalie carries out experiments in the lab (currently working on INSERT-seq experiments), but is also critical in ensuring our lab runs smoothly.
Nathalie performed PhD research at the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, working on SMAD3 mutations. - Ilse is a PhD student in the lab, working to identify specific regulators of non-coding versus coding transcription, particularly at the transcription elongation level.
Ilse studied at Utrecht University, and has cum laude degrees in Veterinary Sciences (BSc) and Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences (MSc). - Kexin is a PhD student, and works to better understand the mode of action of protein regulators of early termination.
Kexin obtained her BSc degree from the China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, before coming to Utrecht for Biology in Disease master's program, for which she also did an internship at the ETH in Zurich. She gained some experience a technician in a biotech startup in Shenzhen before returning to Utrecht to start her PhD with us.
Students
Ilka Namokel
Ilka is a student in the MCLS master program and is during her major internship with us in the 2025-2026 academic year. She is being supervised by Ilse, and is working to establish a protocol to accurately map RNA 3' ends.
This could be you!
We're open to new MSc students who are looking for longer internships (minimum 6 months), particularly for bioinformatics projects. Utrecht University students can also find our advertised projects in Konjoin. Please contact h.vlaming@uu.nl with a cv and motivation if you are interested.
Alumni
| Eline van Hardeveld | Eline did a MSc internship in which she combined bioinformatics and some lab work, 2024-2025. |
| Anatoli Todorov | Anatoli was a student at the University College Utrecht and joined the lab twice. First as a volunteer summer student in 2023, then for his BSc thesis project spring 2024. |
| Irene Zanovello | Irene completed a MSc internship in our lab, 2023-2024. |
| Laura Torroba Vicario | Laura did a bioinformatics MSc internship with us, 2023-2024. |
We're also happy to have hosted many UU Bachelor students for their thesis projects.
Other lab pictures
Early days Vlaming lab!
Hanneke and Nathalie, the first Vlaming lab members.
Lab outing
Good team work, we escaped the room with some time to spare!