Research Technicians

Alem Gusinac
Alem Gusinac
After completion of his contract with us, Alem has joined the laboratory led by My Phan and M. Cotton at the Dept. of Virology of the Erasmus MC where he will work at setting up viral genomic libraries for NGS to study virus-host interactions.

He will also focus on R and Pyhton coding for pattern analysis to locate transmission sites of the studied viruses.
Cor Breukel
Cor Breukel
Cor Breukel started working with Riccardo in Leiden back in 1990, when he was a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. Meera Khan’s laboratory at the LUMC in Leiden, and kept doing so until 2002, when the Fodde lab moved to Rotterdam.

He is currently still in Leiden where he joined the Sjef Verbeek’s laboratory working as a senior research technician both for the Transgenic Facility Leiden as well as Sjef’s research on immunology.
Joana Brandao
Joana Brandao
Joana Brandao worked with us for two years (2011-2012) as a research technician.

She is now back in Portugal where she is studying Economics, at the Faculdade de Economia do Porto (FEP), Universidade do Porto, as a BSc student.
Lau Blonden
Lau Blonden
Lau Blonden worked as a research technician in Riccardo’s lab from 2005 until 2008.

He then made a career move up from 3rd to 23rd floor and since works at the Erasmus MC Department of Experimental Cardiology.
Lia Sneyers-Molenaar
Lia Sneyers-Molenaar
Lia Sneyers-Molenaar worked in Riccardo's laboratory, after her internship as a HLO student, from 2000 to 2008 as a research technician.

She is now the proud mother of four beautiful children.
Patrick Franken
Patrick Franken
Patrick Franken started worked as a research technician in the laboratory led by Riccardo from January 2000 (in Leiden) until January 2016 (Rotterdam).

Since February he is working in Leiden again, as a researcher at ProQR Therapeutics N.V..

www.proqr.com
Petra Sonneveld
Petra Sonneveld
Petra Sonneveld worked in the our laboratory as a research technician from 2004 to 2009.

She is currently working at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in the Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion on the clinical translation of cell therapy.
Rubina Noori
Rubina Noori
Rubina worked as a research technician in our laboratory from Sept. 2008 to Dec. 2012 on various projects and in support of various postdocs and PhD students.

Since October 2015 she works for Eurofins in Denmark.
Shantie Jagmohan-Changur
Shantie Jagmohan-Changur
Shantie Jagmohan-Changur worked in Riccardo’s laboratory from 1995 to 2002, at that time in the LUMC in Leiden, as a research technician.

She is currently working as coordinator at the Center for Audiology and Hearing Implants of the Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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