Welcome to the Brouns lab
News
May 2021
Jochem becomes a bioinformatician during COVID with this preprint: lessons for CRISPR spacer matching in metagenomic databases. Such interesting findings!
April 2021
Boris, thank you for being in our group and member of Fagenbank for 2.5 years. We wish you all the best with you new job!
March 2021
Boris and Rita publish a preprint about four novel phages against Klebsiella clinical pathogens. What a beauties!
February 2021
How simple can it be, give the Dutch some frozen lakes and the country is transformed into an ice skating nation. We had a lot of fun and a break we really needed.
December 2020
Thank you EU ERC for funding our research into bacterial immune systems! Please see vacancies here.
December 2020
The groupmeeting in corona times... hopefully soon to change
November 2020
Franklin publishes his paper on self targeting spacers in CRISPR systems, often considered the Achilles heel of CRISPR. Or is it? This organism survived 162 self targeting spacers against 11 prophages in the genome. Great provacative work, as Science should be.
October 2020
Patrick defends his PhD thesis at Utrecht University. Awesome job Dr de Jonge! Smiling both before and after the defense. All the best with your new position in Amsterdam.
October 2020
Jochem publishes his methods paper describing a novel analytical method to analyze the microscopy data of the movement of proteins inside cells. Amazing job!
October 2020
Big day for CRISPR as Emmanuelle and Jennifer receive the Nobel prize for Chemistry for their breakthrough Cas9 findings. Congratulations!
September 2020
Patrick publishes his high-throughput method called Adsorpseq to link unknown bacteriophages to their hosts. How simple, nice and useful can it be!
June 2020
Franklin (on the far left) is starting his own research group in Southampton. What a dream come true for him. Thank you for the amazing time and all the best in the UK.
Visiting address
Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, Netherlands
Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
Applied Sciences Building (nr. 58) Office E1.480
Host institute
Research interest
My lab is interested in the interaction between microbes and bacteriophages. We study the mechanisms that bacteria use to protect themselves from infections including CRISPR, and explore the adaptations that viruses have evolved to avoid defence systems. We isolate and engineer bacteriophages for phage therapy applications.
Funding
Address
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience
Delft University of Technology
Applied Sciences Building (nr. 58) Office E1.480
Van der Maasweg 9
2629 HZ Delft
Netherlands