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.
Spencer Jones
Post-doc
Post-doc
Modelling regression in Kleefstra Syndrome
Enjoys travelling, visiting art museums, and making music with his band ‘remember whales’.
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
Adult phenotypic reversibility of learning deficits in ID/ASD models
Loves her cat Semi, lives in a plant jungle, and enjoys eating her way through different cultures.
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
Franziska Kampshoff
Technician
Technician
Likes to go for a swim, and has a healthy passion for baking.
Ralitsa (Riley) Petrova
Student Assistant
Student Assistant
Melanie de Wit
Student Assistant
Student Assistant
Loves reading, good food, doing cool science, and cuddling with cats.
Owns a lot of plants.
Mehrdad Maghbouli
Intern
Intern
Variabilty of the habituation phenotype
Loves listening to podcasts about history and politics.
Zubi Aimee Govers
Intern
Intern
Master's student Medical Human Biology.
Loves spending time with friends (especially cooking diner), watching Netflix and traveling during the holidays.
Merli Kreshpani
Intern
Intern
Sleep disturbances in ASH1L/ash1 syndrome
Cooking is my happy place.
I provide the world with cat cuddles and chaotic energy.
Matthijs Klunder
Intern
Intern
Drosophila habituation improvement by genetic rescue of ID/ASD orthologs.
Loves cycling as fast as possible, coffee and science fiction.
Niek Sluiters (on picture)
Lab support
Lab support
Joshua
Lab support
Lab support
Sarah Stephenson
Affiliated researcher
Team leader Neurogenetics
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Melbourne, Australia
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
Post-docs and other researchers:
Prof. Paul Lasko (Radboud Excellence professorship)
Kevin Lüthy (Post-doc)
Michaela Fenckova (Post-doc)
Monique van der Voet (Post-doc)
Prof. Christiane Zweier (Guest researcher)
Jamie Kramer (Post-Doc)
Eiko de Jong (Post-Doc)
PhD students:
Euginia Singgih
Ilse Eidhof
Sarah Foriel
Benjamin Harich
Human Riahi Asl
Benjamin Harich
Tom Koemans
Anna Castells-Nobau
Bonnie Nijhof
Korinna Kochinke
Merel Oortveld
Technicians and lab support:
Barbara Hulssen (Student Assistant)
Chiara Pignato (Student Assistant)
Caroline Vogels (Technician)
Irene Janssen (Technician)
Jolanda de Gooyert (Technician)
Marije Asbreuk (Student Assistant)
Nikky Kaptein (labsupport via Pluryn)
Carswell Werleman (labsupport via Pluryn)
Tom van de Broek (labsupport via Pluryn)
Internship students:
Hester Vogelaar
Beheshta Popal
Adam Lo-Fo-Wong
Melanie de Wit
Eveline Francis
Isabel Quak
Renée Schepers
Kai Prins
Sanne Papeleu
Ana Serna
Chiara Pignato
Laura Winkler
Jonathan Feenstra
Lara Gerding
Kira Hoeffer
Jessica Luyckx
Janne Knuiman
Ella Najlah
Izel Erdogan
Christos Sougklakos
Ella Najlah
Emma Brinkmann
Alina Krebbers
Cas Boshoven
Isabel Terwindt
Lisa van Ninhuys
Lise Verkooijen
Lisa van Ninhuys
Sheren Christine
Lejla Koco
Rik Scharn