Kees Jalink , PhD

Kees Jalink studied biology, archeology and electrophysiology at the state university of Leiden, The Netherlands. He performed his thesis work in the lab of Prof W. Moolenaar, where he co-discovered lysophosphatidic acid as a receptor agonist. Following that, he spent three years as a postdoc in the labs of Prof C. Zuker and R.Y. Tsien, both at Ja Jolla, California, where he worked on phototransduction and witnessed the birth of FRET with fluorescent proteins. Returning to Amsterdam, he started his own lab at the prestiguous Netherlands Cancer Institute. Employing advanced functional imaging and other biophysical techniques, his group studies cell signaling events with high spatial and temporal resolution. Electrophysiological (e.g. patch clamping), functional imaging (FRET, FRAP,