Current members

Jianbo Zhang, PhD

Principle Investigator

Tenure-track Assistant Professor

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

University of Amsterdam

Science Park 904, C3.262 

1098 XH Amsterdam

Phone: 020-5255143

E-mail:j.zhang6 at uva dot nl


Team members

Aly Eekhof, Secretary

Dennis Rijnsburger, Technician

Marco Lezzerini, PhD, Staff scientist

Yangwei Shan, MSc, PhD candidate

Virginia Bruno, MSc, PhD candidate (joint program with Gut Research group at AUMC)


Visiting scholars

Bouges Eloïse, MEng, PhD candidate at SCK CEN & University of Antwerp

Mirena Sakaj, PhD, postdoc at Wageningen University & Research

Master students

Praise Achinebiri (September - November 2024)

Bachelor students


Alumni

Raymond Pasman, MSc, PhD candidate (graduated October 2024)

Shaimah Syeda (July - August 2024, Utrecht University)

Myrthe Beijnvoort (January - July 2024)

Vera Spek (January - July 2024)

Johanna Böttcher (February - July 2024) now PhD candidate at Microbiome Engineering group at UvA

Jakshana Ananthasabesan (December 2023 - July 2024, Collaboration with Gut Research group at AUMC)

Jocy Celie (February - June 2024)

Michael Lekkerkerker (November 2023 - May 2024)

Yizi Pan (December 2023 -  March 2024)

Finn Meyer, MSc thesis (January - October 2023)

Fenna Kootstra, BSc internship (February - June 2023), now MSc student at UvA

Kirby R. Dick-Frank, WUR intern, now PhD candidate at CHUV Lausanne (2022)

Yizi Pan, MSc internship (2022)

Tessel Sligting, MSc internship (2022), now lab manager at InBiome

Selin Alpagot, MSc (2022)