HG (Gerben) de Zwaan

2022 - Now: PhD student in Thijs Ettema's Microbial Evolution lab, working on cell extraction methods, targeted isolation and live cell imaging of novel uncultured archaea.  

2019 - 2022: MSc (Cellular and Molecular) Biotechnology at Wageningen University:

• Internship: Development and Optimization of FISH tools to target microbial symbiotic systems at NIOZ supervised by Dr. Joshua N. Hamm and Dr. Kerstin Fiege under Prof. Dr. Laura Villanueva and Prof. Dr. Anja Spang
• Thesis: Immunomodulation of chicken macrophages using bacteriophages and feed components at Cell biology and Immunology @ WUR with Dr. Edwin Tijhaar and Paulina Krzysica, MSc.

2014 - 2018: Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Life Sciences: Biomolecular Research

• Internship: Understanding the role of TBL1x in DNA damage response.
  at the UMC Utrecht, Molecular Cancer Research division, Burgering Lab with Dr. Sabina van Doeselaar.
• Internship: The effect of the nutritional state of Nematostella vectensis on Insulin/Tor signaling and transcription. at the Sars international Center (Bergen, Norway) with Dr. Patrick Steinmetz and Anja Kirschbauer, MSc.
  
  Recognition:
  - 2023 - Mike Jetten award for best MSc Thesis in Microbiology
  - 2024 - Best Poster in Environmental Microbiology at the KNVM Scientific Spring Meeting