On Wednesday February 25th Ronja Houtekamer (Gloerich lab) will defend her thesis entitled: ‘More than a gut feeling: mechanical control of epithelial homeostasis’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Tuesday February 10th, Lars Kemp (Gloerich lab) will defend his thesis entitled: ‘Out of touch: Signaling by cell adhesions in diffuse-type gastric cancer’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht 

On Wednesday January 21st Joanna Wolthuis (de Ridder/van Mil labs) will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘Exploring the gut/blood metabolome across species and countries’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Tuesday January 6th, Matthijs Baars (Vercoulen lab) will defend his thesis entitled: "Cellular cartography: characterizing tissue immune landscapes in IBD and cancer" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Thursday December 11th Marieke Wensveen (Janssen lab) will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘Heterochromatin dynamics in DNA repair and aging’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Tuesday November 18th, Marit van Bueren (Janssen lab) will defend her thesis entitled: ‘Silenced, but not silent:  how heterochromatin promotes its maintenance and stability’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Thursday October 20th, Emmy Wesdorp (de Ridder lab) will defend her thesis entitled “Detection of Pathogens through Liquid Biopsy Shotgun Sequencing”, at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht. 

Alexandra Danyi (de Ridder lab) will defend her thesis 'Unlocking patterns in limited omics data’  on September 2nd at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Tuesday the 26th of August at 12.15 Mirjam van der Net (Gloerich lab) will defend her thesis entitled ‘Mechanobiology in healthy epithelia and cancer’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Wednesday July 9th at 12.00 Jan van der Beek (Klumperman group) will defend his thesis entitled ‘The endo-lysosomal system and its organization by tethers’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Tuesday May 13th Stephanie van Dam (Vercoulen lab) will defend her thesis entitled “Issue in the Tissue: Immune landscapes in Melanoma and Inborn Errors of Immunity" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Wednesday May 7th at 12.00 Anton Venhuizen will defend his PhD thesis entitled: ‘Molecular mechanisms of the β-catenin destruction complex in health and disease’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Thursday January 30th at 12.00 Daan van Soest will defend his PhD thesis entitled: “Signaling and Damage by Localized Reactive Oxygen Species Production” at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Monday, January 13, 2025, Marc Pagès Gallego (de Ridder lab) will defend his PhD thesis titled ‘Applied Deep Learning to Nanopore Sequencing: Genomics, Epigenomics, and Diagnostics’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Wednesday the 18th of December, Joep Sprangers (Maurice lab) will defend his PhD thesis entitled “WNT-mediated regulation of regeneration and oncogenesis” at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

On Thursday the 14th of November, the 2nd ANNUAL UMC UTRECHT SPATIAL OMICS SYMPOSIUM will be held within the UMCU. See below for more information on the program and invited speakers. Registration is free of charge but limited. Ensure your seat and reserve a spot here.

On Wednesday the 11th of September Johannes Lehmann (postdoc de Keizer lab) will defend his PhD thesis: ‘ The Age of Rebuilt Cartilage' at the Queridozaal at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. During his PhD, Johannes investigated how WNT signalling inhibits paracrine senescence in mesenchymal stem cells as well as how cartilage defects can be repaired with the extracellular matrix of ear cartilage. His promotor is Prof. Gerjo van Osch, his copromotor Dr. Derk ten Berge.

On Thursday July 11th, Imogen Morris will defend her PhD thesis ‘Lipids in immunometabolism: From lipid handling to lipid antigen presentation and back’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Thursday the 27th of June, Koos de Wit will defend his PhD thesis ‘Risk factors and therapeutic interventions for decompensated cirrhosis affecting the gut-liver axis’ at the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam

On Tuesday May 14th, Judith de Jong will defend her PhD thesis: 'Nutritional regulation of intestinal development, homeostasis and cancer' at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Wednesday April 10th, Rutger Kok (Rodriguez-Colman lab) will defend his PhD thesis ‘Homeostasis in intestinal organoids at the single cell level’ at the Senate Hall of the TU Delft.

On Tuesday February 6th, Jeroen Bugter will defend his PhD thesis: 'Mechanisms of WNT-related tumour suppressor mutations in colorectal cancer progression' at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Thursday January 25th, Jooske Monster will defend her PhD thesis "Sticking together: How adherens junctions orchestrate epithelial integrity" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht

On Tuesday the 16th of January My Anh Truong will defend her thesis entitled ‘Tales of aneuploidy: lessons from (individuals) chromosome manipulations’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.

Learn everything about the UMCU Multi-scale Spatial Omics Platform & how you can use spatial omics to move your research forward. 

On the 25th of May from 14.00 -17.00 there will be a mini symposium from the Center for Molecular Medicine and Department of Pathology in UMCU on high end infrastructures for fundamental research  (correlative fluorescence/electron microscopy, mass spectrometry imaging, spatial transcriptomics, mass cytometry imaging) in the Q Auditorium in UMCU.

Date And time:           25th May 2023, 14:00-17:00

Location:                     UMC Utrecht, Auditorium Q-building

Registration link:         SpatialOmics registration

Organisors: Yvonne Vercoulen, Andreas Sonnen, Nalan Liv, Ies Nijman, Mojtaba Amini

PhD thesis defense Marlies Ludikhuize

On May 9th, Marlies Ludikhuize will defend her PhD thesis ‘Metabolic Regulation of Proliferation and Differentation’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht