University of Amsterdam

Martijn Bekker (1979) was born in Amstelveen (The Netherlands). He started his studies in biology in 1997 at the University of Amsterdam, and graduated in 2003 with specializations in molecular microbiology and in immunology. The internships during his undergraduate studies were carried out in the labs of Prof. dr. B. Oudega (VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Prof. dr. F. Heffron (OHSU, Portland, Oregon, USA).
He continued with his graduate studies in 2003 in the Laboratory for Molecular Microbial
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POSITION
Professor of Systems Medicine/Biology at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

RESEARCH
My major projects focus on understanding the etiology of metabolic syndrome and its comorbidities type2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To get grip on the sequence of events in disease progression we make use of longitidunal models and apply multiscal systems biology approaches.

PUBLICATIONS

My published work can be found at:
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General microbiologist with specific interests in signal transduction mechanisms, biophysics and photobiology

POSITION
Professor of Experimental Neuroendocrinology at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) and the Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RESEARCH
My major projects focus on understanding how the hypothalamic biological clock controls hormonal rhythms and energy metabolism. For this we mainly use the rat as an animal model. Important techniques include blood sampling from and targeted brain infusions in awake and
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I have modelling expertise in precise kinetic models of metabolism and signal transduction; metabolic control analysis, hierarchical regulation analysis, non-equilibrium dynamics, statistical mechanics, enzyme kinetics, flux balance analysis. Energy and carbohydrate metabolism in Archaea, Bacteria and human; ammonium assimilation in Bacteria; differential network-based drug design; cancer metabolic rewiring; cell cycle; genome wide metabolic map and inborn errors of metabolism; epigenetics.

Professor Quantitative Microbial Physiology
Dept Mol Mic Phys
Swammerdam Inst Life Sc
University of Amsterdam

Johan van Beilen University of Amsterdam j.w.a.vanbeilen@uva.nl;

POSITION
I am an emeritus professor in Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam (retired 2010).

RESEARCH
My research focussed on the human chromatin in its natural environment, i.e. the nucleus of cultured living human cells.
Aspects, such as the dynamic folding of the chromatin fiber inside the nucleus and local chemical modification of histones and DNA at genetic loci, are the physical and chemical basis for epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In my group we worked parallel on human
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POSITION
Prof. Dr. Natal van Riel is Professor in Computational Modelling at the Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam (AMC - UvA) and Associate Professor in Systems Biology and Metabolic Diseases at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

RESEARCH
My research applies mathematical modelling and computation to study metabolic diseases, in particular Metabolic Syndrome and co-morbidities. Systems biology approaches are developed for
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Started out in the field of environmental analytical chemistry and after a few years working in that field, switched to process analysis and chemometrics. Next during my PhD work I came into Life Sciences doing data analysis on microbial batch fermentations (Escherichia coli). During my PhD work my main task was to integrate prior knowledge into data analysis, so called grey modeling. Now my focus lies on white models (based on ordinary differential equations), more specifically building a detailed
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