lab Members
Annette Schenck
Full Professor
Full Professor
Strives to do cool science relevant to patients with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Loves flies, her group, and her family.
Pleuni Schreurs
Technician
Technician
Loves spending time with friends, hiking, traveling and horse riding.
Mireia Coll Tané
Post-doc
Post-doc
Sleep in Drosophila models of chromatinopathies
Loves to travel around the world, her dog Willow, and handcrafting.
Laura Blok
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Drosophila and human habituation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Enjoys hiking and camping, and believes you can never have enough plants.
Lara van Renssen
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Sleep of people and flies with neurodevelopmental syndromes
Also passionate about rowing and visiting the zoo.
Jingyi (Adela) Long
PhD candidate
Epilepsy and sleep
Likes to share delicious snacks and help "gaining weight". On weekends, she explores the Netherlands!
Marina Boon
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Sensory processing in fly models of neurodevelopmental disorders
Loves her chimera cat Semi, lives in a plant jungle, and enjoys making home-made oat milk with my new Mulsi!
Boyd van Reijmersdal
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Identifying common therapies for groups of rare neurodevelopmental disorders
Likes to ride bikes and discover good music.
Jie (Stella) Han
PhD candidate
PhD candidate
Spencer Jones
Post-doc
Post-doc
Modelling regression in Kleefstra Syndrome
Enjoys travelling, visiting art museums, and making music with his band ‘remember whales’.
Nicholas Raun
Post-doc
Post-doc
Melanie de Wit
Student Assistant
Student Assistant
Loves reading, good food, doing cool science, and cuddling with cats.
Owns a lot of plants.
Isabel Martínez Blázquez
Intern
Intern
Kleefstra syndrome regression
Enjoys playing football and trying food from different countries.
Barbara Pavicic Perez
Intern
Intern
Ralitsa (Riley) Petrova
Student Assistant
Student Assistant
Sarah Stephenson
Affiliated researcher
Team leader Neurogenetics
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Melbourne, Australia
Niek Sluiters
Lab support through Pluryn
Lab support through Pluryn
Joshua
Lab support through Pluryn
Lab support through Pluryn
Drosophilarge
I basically do everything. Without me, everybody above me is completely lost.
The fly food is yummie though, so not complaining.
Drosophilittle
♫ They see me crawling, they hatin'
Our Alumni
Prof. Paul Lasko (Radboud Excellence professorship, more info here)
Kevin Lüthy (Post-doc, Radboud Excellence fellow)
Michaela Fenckova (Post-doc)
Shiva Keerthikuma, PhD (Post-doc, Huijnen lab)
Monique van der Voet (Post-doc)
Jamie Kramer (Post-Doc)
Eiko de Jong (Post-Doc)
Mireia Coll-Tané (PhD, now postdoc)
Euginia Singgih (PhD)
Ilse Eidhof (PhD)
Sarah Foriel (PhD)
Benjamin Harich (PhD)
Human Riahi Asl (PhD)
Tom Koemans (PhD)
Anna Castells-Nobau (PhD)
Bonnie Nijhof (PhD)
Christiane Zweier (Guest/PhD)
Korinna Kochinke (PhD)
Merel Oortveld (PhD)
Franziska Kampshoff (Technician)
Caroline Vogels (Technician)
Irene Janssen (Technician)
Jolanda de Gooyert (Technician)
Barbara Hulssen (Student Assistant)
Chiara Pignato (Student Assistant)
Marije Asbreuk (Student Assistant)
Nikky Kaptein (labsupport via Pluryn)
Carswell Werleman (labsupport via Pluryn)
Tom van de Broek (labsupport via Pluryn)
Our internship student alumni
Pleuni Schreurs (now technician)
Matthijs Klunder
Mehrdad Maghbouli
Zubi Govers
Merli Kreshpani
Hester Vogelaar
Beheshta Popal
Adam Lo-Fo-Wong
Melanie de Wit
Eveline Francis
Isabel Quak
Renée Schepers
Chiara Pignato 2
Kai Prins
Sanne Papeleu
Ana Serna
Thijs Weenink
Chiara Pignato 1
Laura Winkler
Jonathan Feenstra
Lara Gerding
Kira Hoeffer
Jessica Luyckx
Janne Knuiman
Ismet Özer
Ella Najlah 2
Izel Erdogan
Christos Sougklakos
Ella Najlah 1
Emma Brinkmann
Alina Krebbers
Cas Boshoven
Isabel Terwindt
Floris Hermeling
Lisa van Ninhuys 2
Tessa Schillemans
Lise Verkooijen
Lisa van Ninhuys 1
Sheren Christine
Lejla Koco
Rik Scharn
Emma Smit
Laura Blok
Ana Teodora Margelu
Yvonne Lasarzewski
Swetha Ananth
Kiran van der Laan
Teuntje Peters
Heleen Roesken
Mireia Coll Tane
Ilse Eidhof
Walinka van Tol
Yinan Zhang
Liu Xingchen
Emre Tezel
Irem Ayhan
Roos Schellevis
Guido van Mierlo
Gizem Oezcan
Human Riahi Asl
Benjamin Harich
Carlijn Brekelman
Kübra Narcı
Falko Hofmann
Jessie van Buggenum
Floortje Pepperkamp
Judith Besseling
Işıl Küçükkalıpçı
Oliver Carter
Thijs Ellenkamp
Bonnie Nijhof
Daniela Kramer
Eva van Engelen
Esther Nibbeling