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Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Wouter Hendriksen was born in Stad Delden on the 27 th of February 1978. With his
parents Theo and Ineke and older brother Bas, he moved to Almelo at age four. After primary
school, he went to the Pius X College in Almelo, where he obtained first his HAVO and then
his VWO degree.
In 1997 he started studying Biology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG) in
Haren. During this study, he specialized in Molecular Biology, finishing an internship in the
group Molecular Microbiology (RuG) headed by Professor Arnold Driessen. The subject of
this internship was ABC-transporters in Penicillium chrysogenum. His second internship was
undertaken in Evanston, Illinois in the United States of America. Here, at the Chemical
Engineering department of the Northwestern University, he investigated the transcriptional
regulator Spo0A of Clostridium acetobutylicum under supervision of Dr. Hendrik Bonarius
and Professor E. Terry Papoutsakis. After these internships, he decided to write his
“doctoraal” thesis under supervision of Professor Oscar Kuipers, head of the Molecular
Genetics department (RuG).
After earning his MSc degree, he performed his PhD studies under supervision of
Professor Peter Hermans and Professor Ronald de Groot. During this time he was a member
of the Molecular Medicine PhD committee for three years. At present, Wouter is Postdoc at
the Institute of Biology, Leiden University, in the group of Dr. Paul van Heusden, where he
studies the role of 14-3-3 proteins in cation homeostasis in the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae.
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