Maartje Brink graduated in molecular biology in 2003 from Leiden University, The Netherlands with honours. In 2009, she received her PhD in cell biology at the Nuclear Organisation Group, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her project entailed the development of a live-cell reporter system in order to gain insight into the causal relationships between chromatin organization, epigenetic modifications and gene expression in mammalian cells. Since May 2009, Maartje has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the groups of Camilla Sjögren and Nico Dantuma, both at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In a collaborative project, she studies the role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers in chromosome segregation and DNA repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by time-lapse microscopy. Maartje likes hiking, music, ‘fika’ with friends, traveling and learning about strange new cultures and languages.

Maartje worked in our group from May 2009 until May 2011.