Robert Jansen
Assistant Professor in microbial metabolism at Radboud University. I explore new functions of enzymes and metabolites using untargeted metabolomics and like to 🏃
www.functional-metabolomics-lab.nl
- New paper from our team: Led by @nike-wagner.bsky.social, we just published our findings on how the metabolite class of pteridines binds to the previously cryptic CutA protein. We used our native metabolomics approach to identify pteridines as ligands of CutA. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Great work Daniel!
- Great new work by Jon Long’s group, revealing the mechanism of action of the appetite-suppressing metabolite lac-Phe! www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Great work by former PhD student Femke Vermeir, showing that anammox bacteria can use multiple nitrite reductases. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Great work by Lee et al, linking trehalose metabolism to persister formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- We are super excited to start a new project with support from the Simons Foundation. We will leverage our metabolomics tools and SynCom models to study how microbes shape the production, transformation, and fate of marine DOM. Thanks so much @simonsfoundation.org for making this possible!
- Congratulations to our six new 2025 Simons Early Career Investigators in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution! See full list: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/07/01/a... #science @systemsecology.bsky.social @daniel-petras.bsky.social @kendraturkkubo.bsky.social
- That’s exciting, congrats!
- CDADC1 is a vertebrate-specific dCTP deaminase that metabolizes gemcitabine and decitabine to prevent cellular toxicity www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Bedankt! Heel relevant inderdaad.
- Great postdoc opportunity for environmental microbiology in arctic lakes! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
- We are looking for a PhD candidate in Environmental Microbiology to join the multidisciplinary CLIMET consortium that studies methane, microbes, and their environment in Greenland’s freshwater lakes. Interested? Please apply via the link below before April 15! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
- Interesting study that finds a function of CNDP2 in tumors (Nature 2025) beyond its role in lactoyl-amino acid biosynthesis & exercise (PNAS 2015 & Nature 2022). Separate functions for a reversible enzyme! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
