PhD Bram Heijs

Group leader MS imaging
PhD

DETAILS

  • Research or PhD project:

Method development for MALDI-MSI, and its application in (pre)clinical research. The current work focuses on the multi-OMICS integration of MALDI-MSI data to unravel metabolo-epigenetic interactions in the context of complex tissue architecture.

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

            

               Group leader Mass Spectrometry Imaging                                                     2018–Present

               Center for Proteomics & Metabolomics

               Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

 

               Post-doctoral scientist                                                                                           2019–2020

               Biomedical Mass Spectrometry

               Institute of Hygiene, University Medical Center, Münster, Germany

               Supervision: prof. dr. Klaus Dreisewerd, dr. Jens Höhndorf (Bruker Daltonics GmbH)

 

Education          

               Ph.D. candidate Center for Proteomics & Metabolomics                            2013–2018

               Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

               Supervision: dr. L.A. McDonnell, Prof. dr. J.V.M.G. Bovée

Title: Lab-on-a-tissue: Optimization of On-Tissue Chemistry for Improved

Mass Spectrometry Imaging.

PhD defense: 01-02-2018

 

               MSc Life Science & Technology                                                                           2010–2013

               University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands

               Advisor: Prof. dr. M.H.M. Noteborn

               Focusing on biochemistry, proteomics and molecular biology.

 

               BSc Program Life Science & Technology                                                          2005–2011

               University of Leiden / Delft University of Technology, Leiden / Delft, the Netherlands

               Focusing on biotechnology, cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology.

 

Awards

ImaBiotech Mass Spectrometry Imaging award                                             2017

Publications

  • N-glycomic signature of stage II colorectal cancer and its association with the tumor microenvironment.

    Boyaval, F., van Zeijl, R., Dalebout, H., Holst, S., van Pelt, G., Fariña-Sarasqueta, A., Mesker, W., Tollenaar, R., Morreau, H., Wuhrer, M., Heijs, B

    Molecular & Cellular Proteomics mcp.RA120.002215. doi: 10.1074/mcp.RA120.002215.

  • MALDI-2 on a trapped ion mobility quadrupole time-of-flight instrument for rapid mass spectrometry imaging and ion mobility separation of complex lipid profiles

    Soltwisch, J., Heijs, B., Koch, A., Vens-Cappell, S., Höhndorf, J., Dreisewerd, K

    Analytical Chemistry 92 (13), 8697-8703. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01747

  • Multimodal mass spectrometry imaging of N-glycans and proteins from the same tissue section. Analytical Chemistry

    Heijs, B., Holst, S., Briaire-de Bruijn, I.H., van Pelt, G.W., de Ru, A.H., van Veelen, P.A., Mesker, W.E., Tollenaar, R.A., Drake, R.R., Mehta, A.S., Bovée, J.V.M.G., Wuhrer, M., McDonnell, L.A.

    7745-7753. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01739

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