Team
Current members
Rutger Hermsen
Team leader.
Bryan Verhoef
PhD student
PhD student
Extending the lifespan of antibiotics?
Jointly supervised with Joost de Graaf (ITP).
Hanna Douwes
MSc student
MSc student
Can conflict resolution save group adaptation?
Ron Geurts
MSc student
MSc student
Random drift in group-structured populations with multilevel selection.
Pauline Bakker
MSc student
MSc student
Short- and long-term evolutionary strategies: defining and measuring natural selection at all time scales.Â
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Former members
Laurens H. J. Krah
PhD student
PhD student
Laurens graduated on April 20, 2022, based on his dissertation with the title:
Models of noise propagation in growing and regulating bacterial cells
He is currently teaching at the Theoretical Biology group at Utrecht University.
Hilje M. Doekes
PhD student
PhD student
Hilje graduated on September 23, 2020, based on her dissertation with the title:
Microbial evolution at multiple scales
She is now an Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Genetics of Wageningen University. Profile page.Â
Misha Sheinman
Postdoc
Postdoc
Misha is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, where his research focuses the development of invasive breast cancer from in situ lesions.
Irene Bouwman
MSc student
MSc student
MSc Student - 2022
Evolution of division of labor and transitions of individuality in spatially self-structured populations.
Jeroen Saccheri
MSc student
MSc student
MSc Student - 2022
Applying inclusive fitness theory to individual-based models of group-structured or viscous populations.
Bram van Eijnatten
MSc Student - 2021
Steady states, dynamics, and noise in the regulation of the catabolic proteome sector of Escherichia coli.
Ugur Yikilmaz
MSc Student - 2021
Noise and individuality in the growth of E. coli cells.Â
Pedro Batista Tan
MSc Student (VU Amsterdam) - 2020
The evolution of spiteful behaviors in a viscous population.
Karim Hajji
MSc Student - 2020
Theory and practice of transcriptional autoregulation.(Writing assignment)
Andreas Palazis
MSc Student - 2020
Processes that Shape Operon Formation in Bacteria Genomes.
(Writing assignment)
Taieve Stoops
MSc Student - 2020
The relation between operon structure and the position of ligands in metabolic networks.
(Collaboration with Michael Seidl.)
Martijn Bouman
MSc Student (Mathematics) - 2019
Natural selection across spatial an time scales.
Thijs Geurts
MSc Student - 2019
Bacterial cell size homeostasis
(Writing assignment)
Laura van Schijndel
MSc Student - 2018
Decompositions of natural selection: combining the Price and contextual approaches.
Silvia Espada Burriel
MSc Student (VU Amsterdam) - 2018
Selection of spite and its dependence on interaction scales
Glenn Mulder
MSc Student - 2017
The evolution of small-molecule communication among temperate bacteriophages.
Sophia Schepers
MSc Student - 2017
Evidence for bacterial quorum sensing and its proposed functions.
(Writing assignment)
David Jansen
MSc Student (WUR) - 2016
Regulation of bacteriocin production in Lactococcus lactis & Bacillus subtilis
Istvan T. Kleijn
MSc Student (Physics) - 2015
The interplay between stochasticity and regulation in a coarse-grained model of gene expression, metabolism, and growth
Leonie van Steijn
MSc Student - 2014
The fixation probability of a mutation that extends a species' range.