Research Statement

1. systems biology of the malaria parasite. I investigate the interaction of the parasite with the host immune system. This work is in collaboration with Clemens Kocken, Annemarie Zeeman and Erica Pasini of the BPRC and Tom, Juan and Adriana of our group. A movie of the parasite is here:

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Another collaboration is with Niels Cornelisse of the CNCR in Amsterdam on systems biology of presynaptic genes in mammalian neurons. Tom and Evgeni of our group also work on this project.

2. human motor control. I study rhythmic movement from a dynamical systems perspective, in collaboration with Dagmar Sternad and Se-Wong Park from Northeastern University. A video of the set-up is here:

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3. visual psychophysics. I investigate visual perception of orientation and shape, in collaboration with Tom and Saiden, both from our group.

4. audiology. I study ways of improving the satisfaction of hearing aid users by individualzing the settings of a hearing aid. This work is in collaboration with Rolph Houben (AMC Amsterdam) and Bert de Vries (TU/e Eindhoven). Tom, Perry and Adriana (RUN), Iman Mossavat (TU/e), Wouter Drechsler (AMC) and Svante Stadler (KTH Stockholm) also work on this project.

News and Recent Publications

27 Jan 2010:
Juan and I obtain a 4500 Euro grant from the BPRC to develop a cell image classifier for liver cells and malaria parasites.
1 Dec 2009:
Juan Escribano Navarro starts on a project entitled "automatic counting of liver cells infected with malaria parasites". Goal is to use CellProfiler to count fluorescently labeled liver cells and malaria parasites for the purpose of screening antimalarial drugs. The middle one-third of my logo is a photo of liver cell nuclei (red) and malaria parasites (green).
1 Nov 2009:
I start a full-time research associate position in Nijmegen, funded by the NWO-CLS grant and by Tom's VICI grant.
8 Oct 2009:
Tom Heskes gives his "oratie", public address for the event of his promotion to full professor. The machine learning group made a video exaggerating Tom's vices that can be viewed upon request.
19 Aug 2009:
I have my first patent approved. The patent is titled "Efficient evaluation of hearing ability" and describes a Bayesian approach to measuring the Audiogram.
15 Jun 2009:
The RUMPHI project (Regulation Underlying Malaria Parasite Host Interactions) has been granted in the NWO-CLS program. Tom, Clemens and myself were among the 5 lucky ones to receive 460,000 Euros for our three-year research proposal.
31 Mar 2009:
The paper Gene regulation in the intraerythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum by Rasa, myself, Clemens and Tom appears in Bioinformatics pdf.
11 Jul 2008:
The paper Coordination of gaze and hand movements for tracking and tracing in 3D by Stan, myself, Irene and Joke appears on-line in Cortex pdf. The right one-third of my logo is a photo of Irene in the experimental set-up.