Babet Van Der Vaart
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Cancer
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Netherlands
Biography
Babet van der Vaart is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Netherlands Cancer Institute
Research Interest
She was interested in the microtubule cytoskeleton and especially in the role of plus-end tracking proteins on the regulation of microtubule dynamics. During my PhD in the lab of Prof. dr. Anna Akhmanova (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) one of her projects involved the characterization of SLAIN2, a novel mammalian plus-end tracking protein. For her first postdoc funded by an EMBO-fellowship she joined the lab of Dr. Stefan Westermann (IMP, Vienna) where she used budding yeast to identify novel microtubule growth regulators. she will continue this line of research in the lab of Prof. Dr. René Medema on a VENI-grant.
