User:Wiep Klaas Smits

Wiep Klaas Smits

Contact Info

Wiep Klaas Smits
Department of Medical Microbiology
Postzone E4-P, room L4-39
Leiden University Medical Center
Albinusdreef 2
2333 ZA
Leiden
The Netherlands

Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

• 2007, PhD, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, cum laude
• 2002, MSc, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, cum laude
• 1998, Propedeuse (undergraduate degree), University of Groningen, The Netherlands, cum laude

Research interests

1. Interest 1
2. Interest 2
3. Interest 3

Awards and honours

• 2010, Veni Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
• 2008, Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
• 2007, EMBO Long Term Fellowship (declined)
• 2007, Nat L. Sternberg Thesis Prize, for the most outstanding PhD thesis in the field of prokaryotic molecular genetics
• 2005, Kiem Prize of the Dutch Society of Microbiology (NVvM), for the best first publication as a first author
• 2002, Travel grant Dr. L.A. Bumafonds
• 2001, Travel grant Dr. L.A. Bumafonds
• 2001, Erasmus scholarship for exchange with Oxford University

Publications

Error fetching PMID 19968790:
Error fetching PMID 19453701:
Error fetching PMID 18537474:
Error fetching PMID 17586671:
Error fetching PMID 17581123:
Error fetching PMID 17493123:
Error fetching PMID 17468244:
Error fetching PMID 16907804:
Error fetching PMID 15819618:
Error fetching PMID 15743949:
Error fetching PMID 15528548:
Error fetching PMID 15128451:
Error fetching PMID 12490720:

9. Smits WK, Kuipers OP, and Veening JW. Phenotypic variation in bacteria: the role of feedback regulation. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2006 Apr;4(4):259-71. DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1381 |
10. Smits WK, Dubois JY, Bron S, van Dijl JM, and Kuipers OP. Tricksy business: transcriptome analysis reveals the involvement of thioredoxin A in redox homeostasis, oxidative stress, sulfur metabolism, and cellular differentiation in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol. 2005 Jun;187(12):3921-30. DOI:10.1128/JB.187.12.3921-3930.2005 |

15. leave a comment about a paper here

16. ISBN:9789036730310
17. ISBN:9783540749202

Personal

(under construction)

Useful links

• My weblog (in Dutch) and my website (under construction)
• My profile on Linkedin, Epernicus and Nature Network Boston
• My profile on Facebookand Hyves (the Dutch equivalent)
• European Career Fair at MIT
• OpenWetWare tutorial
• OpenWetWare help pages