Bio Gert Jan C. Veenstra

Education

Utrecht University, M.Sc. Medical Biology, 1987-1992 (Cum Laude)
Graduate School of Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, Ph.D. Biology, 1992-1996

1996-1997, Post-doc, Hubrecht Institute w. Dr. Olivier H.J. Destrée
1997-2000, Post-doc, National Institutes of Health (NICHD) with Dr. Alan P. Wolffe †
2000-2002: Post-doc, National Institutes of Health (NICHD) with Dr. Igor B. Dawid †
2002-2009, Assistant Professor, Radboud University (Dept. Molecular Biology)
2009-2012, Associate Professor, Radboud University (Dept. Molecular Biology)
2017-2019, Director of Education, Institute of Biosciences (Ba Biol., Ma Biol., Ma Med.Biol.)
2023-present, Director of the Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (Faculty of Science)
2012-present, Professor, Radboud University (Dept. Molecular Developmental Biology)

Discovery of the mechanism of transcriptional repression by DNA methylation (Nature Genetics, 1998; Genome Research, 2011)
Discovery of TBP-independent mechanisms of transcription (Science, 2002; PNAS, 2004; Development, 2016)
First epigenome maps of vertebrate embryos (Dev. Cell, 2009; Nature Communications, 2015)
Dissection of genomic mechanisms of vertebrate hybrid species incompatability and asymmetric genome evolution (Nature, 2016; Genome Biology, 2017; Nature, 2018)
Discovery of DNA binding by the Polycomb PRC2 complex (Genome Research, 2014; Nature Genetics, 2018; Stem Cell Reports, 2020, Nature Communications, 2021)
Roadmap and resources for human heart organoid models (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022; Nature Communications, 2023; Stem Cell Reports, 2025)