John van der Oost#
| Membership Number: | 5108 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mib.wur.nl |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5024-1871 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Visiting Professor, Thermal Biol. Inst., Montana State University, Bozeman, USA
- 2005 - present Professor, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Wageningen University, NL
- 2002 - 2005 Associate Professor, Bacterial Genetics, Wageningen University, NL
- 1995 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Bacterial Genetics, Wageningen University, NL
- 1992 - 1995 Royal Neth. Acad. Sci. (KNAW) Senior Res. Fellow (3 yr), Free Univ. Amsterdam, NL
- 1992 - 1992 EMBL Postdoctoral Fellow (6 months), EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
- 1990 - 1991 EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow (2 yr), EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
- 1989 - 1990 Finnish Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (4 months), University of Helsinki, FI
Fields of Scholarship
- ThermoCas9
- Prokaryotic Argonaute (pAgo)
- Cascade
- CRISPR-Cas
- Cpf1 (Cas12)
- Bacterial anti-virus systems
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Awarded ERC Advanced Grant
- 2019 Elected member of Koninklijke Hollandsche Maartschappij der Wetenschappen (oldest Netherlands Science Society)
- 2018 Spinoza Prize (highest Netherlands research award, Netherlands Research Organization (NWO))
- 2017 NWO Gravitation consortium grant (18 MEuro)
- 2017 Elected member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
- 2016 International Lecture award Federation European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 2015 NWO-TOP personal grant (0.8 MEuro)
- 2014 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2010 NWO-TOP personal grant (0.8 MEuro)
- 2005 NWO-VICI personal grant (1.2 MEuro)
