Members
Postdoc opening
The Vlaming lab has an open postdoc position. We are looking for someone with a background in gene regulation, who has obtained or is on track to obtain a PhD with a first-author publication/preprint in a relevant field, who can work independently and in a team, and is proficient in academic English (spoken and written). If that sounds like you, get in touch by emailing Hanneke (h.vlaming(at)uu.nl) your motivation and cv.
Employees
- Hanneke started as a group leader in 2023 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Adelman lab at Harvard Medical School. She is an expert in transcription regulation and advanced screening and nascent transcriptomics methods. Hanneke cares about mentoring young scientists inside and outside the lab, and encourages people to take charge of their professional development. She believes the lab will be the most fun AND produce the highest quality science if its members are happy, inspired, and their full selves.
- 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. - Valentine is a PhD student who will apply a combination wet-lab and bioinformatics to better understand the role of elongation factors.
Valentine obtained her BSc and MSc degrees at Utrecht University, during which she completed several internships, including in the labs of Jeroen de Ridder (UMCU) and Thomas Quail (EMBL). She spent some additional months in the Quail lab as a research assistant, before joining us here in the Vlaming lab.
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
February 2026 high tea
Celebrating that the 3rd PhD student joined the lab, around the lab's 3rd birthday.
Lab outing
Good team work, we escaped the room with some time to spare!
Vlaming lab June 2023
Vlaming lab during a lab outing, June 2023.
Early days Vlaming lab!
Hanneke and Nathalie, the first Vlaming lab members.