The Evolution and ecophysiology of endosymbioses lab
current members
The E3 Lab is happy to accept students of all levels for research projects
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Ellie M. J. Laetz PhD
Assistant Professor of
Marine Biology, Ecology and Evolution
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University of Groningen
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Aleksandra Zielinska
Lecturer and Researcher
Cécile Deelman-Driessen
Research technician
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Expertise:
Western blot, Cell culture,
Molecular techniques
(Taqman probe qPCR, RNA isolations), Immunohistochemistry and more
2025 Cohort, starting soon!
MSc Student in Marine Biology
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Lorenzo Vassura
MSc Student in Marine Biology
E3 lab alumni
Maja Masarikova
MSc Student in Marine Biology
Martijn ten Have
Intern from Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Rieuwert Lub
Intern from Hanze University
of Applied Sciences
Ioana Stanca
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2024)
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Project: Solar-powered animals and a changing climate​
Leticia de Bonilla Cosculluela
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2024)
Bianca Parodi
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2023)
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Gayathri Venkatraman
Master of Science in Evolutionary Biology (2023)
Giulia Senna
Master of Science in Marine Biology
(2023)
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Project: Solar-powered animals and a changing climate​
Laia Burgués Palau
Master of Science in Marine Biology (2022)
Natascha Borgstein
Master of Science in Marine Biology (2022)
Can Kahyaoglu
Master's student in Marine Biology
Project:
Metabolic performance of the solar-powered sea slug Elysia viridis (Montague, 1804) in a changing climate​
Michiel Merkx
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2022)
Project:
Metabolic stress responses in Elysia crispata and Elysia viridis, and photosymbiosis in Baeolidia rieae and Phestilla subodiosus ​
Rianne Pap
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2022)
Project:
Save it for later: slugs steal chloroplasts from algae to possibly feed off them in times of low food availability
Maja Bošnjaković
Master of Science
in Marine Biology (2022)
Project:
Determining Starch Presence and Morphology in Digestive Tissue of Various Species of Sacoglossan Sea Slugs
Your name here?
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Project:
Whatever floats our boats