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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.

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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 ...

Dr. Sander Kersten received his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved to Wageningen in 2000, initially as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and later as Associate Professor. Since 2011 he is Full Professor in Molecular Nutrition and since 2014 chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group. His current research interests ...

My research activities has been to use mathematical models and Computational Biology to answer biological questions, intertwining in silico and experimental methods at all stages. I have a strong interest in exploring the interfaces between Fundamental Biology and bona fide Engineering, specifically in the realm of environmental and industrial problems. The research goals of my group are to contribute to the elucidation of mechanisms underlying basic cellular processes, evolution and ecological ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor in genetics and systems biology of the metabolic syndrome

I am an Assistant Professor at Leiden University in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. I am a bioinformatician and my research interests are in data integration. I use scientific workflows and semantic web technologies to integrate and analyse data in systems biology and functional genomics.