Team
Principle investigator
Team
Kim Rodenburg, MSc
Position PhD candidate 2022-2026
Topic Long read sequencing approaches to unravel dominant inherited retinal diseases
Lara Holtes
Position PhD-student 2023 - 2027
Topic The genetic and epigenetic characterization of structural variants underlying retinitis pigmentosa type 17
Stefania Shliaga
Position PhD-student 2024-2028
Topic ProgRET DC6, Single-molecule multi-omics framework for adIRD diagnosis
Sterre Mulder, MSc
Position PhD-student 2025-2029
Topic Life Long Vision, Preclinical development of novel therapeutic interventions for retinal diseases
Suzanne de Bruijn, PhD
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
Alumni
Tabea Riepe, PhD
Position PhD student 2020-2024
Defense date 28 April 2025
Current position Data scientist at Soundcell
Rebekkah Hitti-Malin, PhD
Position Postdoc July 2020 - July 2024
Period Underlying genetic causes in macular dystrophies through a smMIPs based approach
Current position Molecular biologist, Erasmus MC
Daan Panneman, PhD
Position Postdoc, March 2021- March 2024
Topic Underlying genetic causes in RP/LCA through a smMIPs based approach
Current position Laboratory Specialist Clinical Genetics i.t., UMC Utrecht
María Rodriguez-Hildalgo
Position Guest PhD-student
Period June 2022 - November 2022
Emma van Berkel
Position Research Intern
Period February 2020 - July 2020 March 2023 - December 2023
Janine Reurink
Position PhD candidate June 2018 - August 2022
Topic Identification and treatment of non-coding USH2A variants
PhD defense 6 April 2023
Current position Project Scientist, Solvias NL
Previous position Postdoc deafness genetics, group of Prof. Hannie Kremer, Radboudumc, 2022-2024
Zeinab Fadaie-van Gestel, PhD
Position PhD-candidate July 2017-June 2021
Topic Identification of non-canonical and deep-intronic splice defects underlying inherited retinal disease
PhD defense 17 November 2021
Current position Postdoc Tytgat-lab, Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology
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
Current position Teaching position at the Wageningen University & Research
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
