2021 – now Group-leader (Assistant Professor), Dept. Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL
2017 - 2021 Researcher, Eq. Van Niel, INSERM U1266, IPNP, Paris, FR
2014 - 2017 PostDoc, Eq. Raposo, UMR144, Institut Curie, Paris, FR
2009 - 2014 PhD student, Exosome Research Group (D. Michiel Pegtel)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Cell-biology, exosomes, zebrafish, molecular biology, biochemistry, protein trafficking, virology, (onco-protein) signalling in the endo-exosomal pathway, live-in vivo imaging, dynamic CLEM, optogenetics, electron microscopy;
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
- ASEMV/AAEV meeting, Monterey (USA) September 29-Oct 3 2022 [invited]
- Gordon Research Conference on Extracellular Vesicles, Sunday River (USA) July 24-29 2022 [invited]
- International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2021 meeting Lyon (FR), May 25-29 2022
- Netherlands Society for Extracellular Vesicles (NLSEV), Amsterdam, (NL), November 12th 2021
- Extracellular Vesicles in Pathophysiology Symposium, Tartu, Estonia, December 3-4 2020 [invited]
- American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles, San-Diego, USA, November 16-19 2020
- EV imaging in vivo workshop, Paris, September 10-11 2020
- “WebEVTalk” Online webinar August 6th 2020 [invited]
- Advanced Drug Delivery and Targeting Course, Leiden (NL) November 27th 2019 [invited]
- First ExoDay, Lugano (CH), October 25th 2019 [invited keynote lecture]
- ISEV Membranes Workshop, Baltimore (USA), 2018 [invited]
- 21th Meeting of the Club Exocytose-Endocytose, Sant Feliu de Guixols (ES), 2018
- ISEV 2018 meeting Barcelona (ES), 2018 [plenary lecture]
- Seminar at Institut Pasteur, invited by Philippe Herbomel (FR), 2018
- 1st FSEV meeting (French EV society), Paris (FR), 2017
- Seminar at VUmc Amsterdam (NL), 2017 [invited]
- ISEV 2017 meeting Toronto (CA), 2017 [plenary lecture]
- Institut Curie/Pasteur (internal seminars, ’Club Exo-Endo’), Paris (FR), 2014-2017
- ISEV 2014 meeting Rotterdam (NL), 2014
- ISEV 2013 meeting Boston (USA), 2013
- GEIVEX Symposium (Spanish EV society), Segovia (ES), 2012
- FASEB summer conference – Tetraspanins, Vermont (USA), 2011 [invited]
FUNDING AND AWARDS
Personal grants
- ERC Starting grant - European Research Council 5-year grant (round 2021)
- Vidi award - Dutch Research Council (NWO) 5-year grant (round 2021)
- KWF Young Investigator Grant 4-year (2020)
- ARC PostDoc 3-year Fellowship (2017, FR)
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (2015, FR)
- Institut Curie/LabEx CelTisPhyBio PostDoc Fellowship (2014, FR)
Grants as co-PI
- INCa PLBIO 3-year project grant (2019, FR)
- ARC 3-year project grant (2019, FR)
- DIM Elicit Ile-de-France grant (2018, FR)
- Institut Curie/LabEx CelTisPhyBio project grants (2015 & 2016 FR)
Scholarships and awards
- ASEMV 2020 Young Investigator Award, San Diego, USA, 2020
- INSERM CRCN laureate (tenure) via national concours, Paris, FR 2020
- Scholarship and featured abstract (ISEV 2018, ES)
- 2 featured abstracts, Toronto (ISEV 2017, CA)
- ISEV Scholarship & SBCF travel grant, Toronto (ISEV 2017, CA)
- Poster prize: “Tracking of endogenous exosomes in vivo” EMBO fellows meeting (Heidelberg 2017, DE)
- EMBO/Nat Cell Biology Poster Prize (EMBO Workshop on Membrane Contact Sites (Sardinia 2016, IT)
- Travel grant Dutch society for Immunology (NVVI 2013, USA)
- Travel grant Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) and René Vogels foundation (Madrid 2012, ES)
- Best Presentation Award, KWF Tumor Cell Biology Meeting (2012, NL)
OTHER ACTIVITIES, EXPERIENCE and CERTIFICATES
- Co-chair of the first international ‘EV imaging in vivo workshop’ (10-11 September 2020)
- Reviewer activity for scientific journals: Nature Protocols, Nature Metabolism, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, Communications Biology, Biology of the Cell, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, Methods in Enzymology, Bioprotocols
- Grant review activity for: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France); ISF (Israel Science Foundation)
- Utrecht University Alumni Network – International Student Introduction
- Scientific board (FSEV 2019) & Webmaster for the French Society for Extracellular Vesicles (FSEV)
- Training French regulation on animal experimentation (Charles River), Paris 06/04/2018
- EMBO Lab Management Course, Leimen (DE) 17-19 June 2017
- Certificate for animal experimentation (conform European FELASA C guidelines), Utrecht 17/05/2006
- Co-organizer of the EBV-Europe Meeting 2013