January 2019: We welcome Femke van Hout for her Bachelor’s internship in the lab.
January 2019: Jieqiong Qu joins the lab as a postdoc to study piRNA biology in Ae. aegypti . Welcome!
December 2018 & January 2019: We welcome Stijn van de Plassche and Christine Moene for their Master’s internship in the lab.
December 2018: Joep and Pascal publish their work on Veneno, a mosquito Tudor protein that plays a role in the viral piRNA ping-pong amplification. Open Access publication in Nucleic Acids Research . Congratulations!!
October 2018: Billy Palmer (former PhD student in Darren Obbard’s lab) along with Joep and Gijs publish their story on the suppression of Toll innate immune signaling by Kallithea virus (a DNA virus of Drosophila) in Journal of Virology . Congrats!
October 2018: Pascal’s PhD thesis has been chosen for the Westenbrink Prize by the Dutch Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Congratulations!!
September 2018: Rebecca won an award for the Best Poster at the ‘piRNAs and PIWI proteins’ EMBO workshop held in Montpellier, France. Congrats!!