THESIS DEFENCE ZILI GU

January 16, 2025

Zili Gu has successfully defended her PhD-thesis entittled "Exploring liposome-targeted chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy in cancer" on December 4th, 2024.

Thesis advisor : Prof.dr. Peter ten Dijke

Co-Thesis advisor: dr. Candido da Silva

Groups

Neefjes Lab / Chemical Immunology

Studying the basis of the immune system, bacterial infections and anti-cancer drugs.
Van der Heden & Mulder & Geurink labs / Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery

Profiling the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Vertegaal Lab / Small Ubiquitin-like Modifiers

Uncovering signal transduction by SUMO
ten Dijke lab / Chemical Signaling

Cell-to-cell communication via secreted factors, transmembrane receptors and intracellular signal transducers
Szuhai Lab / Molecular tumour genetics

Molecular cytogenetics and functional characterization of bone and soft tissue tumours
Baker lab / Transcriptional Regulation
Lamers Lab / DNA Replication & Repair

Molecular mechanisms of high-fidelity DNA replication
Goncalves & Mikkers Lab / Genome Editing

Developing and integrating gene delivery and gene editing systems
Pang Lab / Functional Genomics

Profiling the non-coding genome
Koster Lab / Electron microscopy research

Cryo Electron Tomography and Artificial Intelligence methods
Sharp Lab / BioNanoPatterning

Bionanotechnology to probe immune system activation
Hoeben Lab / Virus Cell Interactions

From innate sensing to oncolysis
Meijer Lab / Circadian Clocks

Investigating sleep regulation and sleep function
Goumans Lab / Cardiovascular Cell Biology

Where data science, virus and stem-cell biology is used to understand disease and develop therapeutics.
't Hart & Zaldumbide Lab / Diabetes Research

Molecular mechanisms of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Corstjens Lab / Near patient diagnostics

High sensitivity diagnostic tools
Barcena Lab / Cell and structural biology of RNA virus infection