Dr. Melissa Baerenfaenger
Tenure Track / assistant professor in Mass Spectrometry
Topics: Glycoprotein characteriaztion in neurological development and disease
Methods: protein separation, LC-MS/MS, ion mobility mass spectrometry
Dr. Sjors Bakels
Scientist Mass Spectrometry
Topics: Instrument commissioning: development & testing photo-synapt
Methods: Ion Mobility, Mass Spectrometry, UVPD and IRMPD
Iuliia Stroganova
PhD student
Topics: peptide self-assembly, functional aggregation, influence of peptide capping on aggregation
Methods: IR ion spectroscopy, ion mobility mass spectrometry, droplet-microfluidics
Agathe Depraz Depland
PhD student
Topics: peptide aggregation related to ALS and Parkinson’s Disease, developing aggregation workflows
Methods: ion mobility mass spectrometry (TIMS-TOF), developing UVPD/ion trap and IR-IM-MS
Dave Orlemans
PhD student
Topics: Protein aggregation (Abeta42) related to Alzheimer’s Disease.
Methods: ion mobility mass spectrometry (TIMS-TOF), native-SEC, aggregation conditions
Raya Sadighi
PhD student / Research Technician
Topics: Studying and capturing the early stages of oligomer formation of α‐synuclein
Methods: ion mobility mass spectrometry (TIMS-TOF), native low-flow SEC
Chuck van de Veen
Research Technician
upcoming positions
- Post-Doc: Summer 2023 (on IM-MS integrated with spectroscopy)
- PhD position : (1) investigate the role of glycoproteins in neurodegenerative diseases using mass spectrometry
Students @ VU Amsterdam
Current Bachelor & Master Students:
– Master (2022/2023): Thaleia Tente, Hannah Willenberg, Stefania Mikromanolis, Sirgouney Karijodikoro, Maxime Gerber, Stephanie Downey
Previous students (2020-2022)
– Bachelor: (2020/2021) Jose Nijman, Mandon Cheung (2021/2022) Lea van Dissel
– Master: (2021/2022) Christine Mathiesen, Rob Reus, Kevin Hes
Collaborations
Dr. Samantha Hughes (VU Amsterdam, Environment & Health)
Prof.dr. Perdita Barran (University of Manchester)
Prof. dr. Mike Bowers (UCSB)
Prof. dr. Isabelle Compagnon (Universite de Lyon)
Prof.dr. Wilhelm Huck (Radboud University)
Previous group members (PhDs, post-docs, technicians)
Ludovica Scutumella
Bas van der Velde
Sander Lemmens
Denis Morsa
Vasyl Yatsyna
Daniel Bakker
Arghya Dey
Bin Yan
Sander Jaeqx
Simon Smolarek
