Meet the members of Tom Taghon’s T cell Team.
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Tom Taghon
Principal Investigator
Prof. dr. Tom Taghon has been leading the Taghon Lab independently since 2012. As principal investigator, his ambitions are to drive the research of human thymocyte development, and to pioneer the study...
Postdocs
Dr. Kai Ling Liang
Postdoc
Kai researches the function of GATA3 in normal and malignant T cell development.
Dr. Nicole Oatman
Postdoc
Nicole aims to gain a deeper understanding of the role of GATA3 misexpression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Dr. Lena Böhme
Postdoc
Lena studies the molecular drivers of the αβ vs. γδ T cell lineage decision in the human thymus using ...
PhD Students
Tamara De Vos
PhD Student
Tamara is interested in the involvement of HES genes in T cell development and malignancies.
Lab Technicians
Imke Velghe
Lab Technician
Imke is the lab technician that mainly helps in culturing human pluripotent stem cells to study hematopoiesis ...
Bio-IT
Tom Putteman
Bio-Informatician
Tom supports the team by providing bioinformatics expertise in the analysis of both bulk and single cell sequencing...
Alumni
Dr. Steven Strubbe
PhD Student - Alumni
Steven’s research focuses on the development of novel models to study human hematopoisesis to help bette...
Dr. Marieke Lavaert
PhD Student - Alumni
Marieke engages to help the understanding of human T cell specification and commitment.
Dr. Juliette Roels
PhD Student - Alumni
Juliette studies the molecular mechanisms controlling human alpha-beta and gamma-delta T cell bifurcation.
Dr. Matthias De Decker
PhD Student - Alumni
Matthias studies HES genes in normal and malignant T cell development.
Dr. Anne-Catherine Dolens
PhD Student - Alumni
Anne-Catherine uses human pluripotent stem cells to study notch signalling in normal and malignant T cell deve...
Dr. Anna Kuchmiy
Postdoc - Alumni
Anna studies the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms controlling normal and malignant T cell development.
Nina Lambrechts
PhD Student - Alumni
Nina wants to unravel the function of GATA3 during T cell development.
Daniel Nagy
PhD Student - Alumni
Daniel’s research focuses on the earliest precursor cells which enter the human thymus.