Kelly Stecker
Assistant ProfessorKelly Stecker studied biochemistry at the University of Washington and worked in the plant biotech industry for several years before obtaining her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kelly was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her PhD work studying plant proteomics and plant signal transduction events in response to acute water loss. In 2016 she moved to the Netherlands for a post-doc in the Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics (BMSP) group at Utrecht University and began her work on protein regulation and protein expression in cancer, with a specific focus on signal transduction events that regulate tumor-immune cell interactions. She became an Assistant Professor in the BMSP group in 2021.
Maarten Altelaar
ProfessorOur research focuses on the development and implementation of innovative mass spectrometric methods for the efficient and detailed characterization of proteins, protein complexes and their post-translational modifications (PTMs) in relation to their biological function in health and disease. Main emphasis is on the improvement of sensitivity, specificity and throughput of proteomics technology for the investigation of cellular signaling networks. We have also pioneered label-free phosphopeptide quantification in combination with targeted mass spectrometry (SRM) to monitor pathway-specific phosphorylation dynamics. Furthermore, we implement cross-omics approaches to understand system-wide biological responses to perturbations in the light of drug sensitivity and resistance.
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Christopher Zala
Cristina Trueba Sanchez
Donna Debets
Fujia Wang
Marèl Spoelstra
