For my PhD research, I combine techniques from the fields of Bioinformatics and Microbiology to better understand microbial adaptation. In particular, I study bacteria from the genus Salmonella, and aim to improve our understanding on how they develop antimicrobial resistance and increased pathogenic potential towards humans.

I am supported by a Strategic Basic Reasearch (SB) PhD grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Affiliations:

• Tropical Bacteriology Unit, ITM
• Adrem Data Lab, University of Antwerp

PhD supervisors:
Prof. Kris Laukens (UA), prof. Sandra Van Puyvelde (UA), dr. Pieter Meysman (UA), Prof. Jan Jacobs (ITM), dr. Stijn Deborggraeve (msf)

More information:

• Twitter: @CuypersWim
• Google Scholar
• Linkedin
• University of Antwerp profile

Pratcical assistent for the Bioinformatics course of prof. Kris Laukens at the University of Antwerp (2018 - 2020)

Chair of the 16th ISCB Student Council Symposium* (10-11 July 2020)

Co-Chair of the ISCBSC web team (2020 - ...)

* The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council (ISCBSC) is an international community of students, PhD students & Junior Postdocs in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Microbial Genomics

Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Computational Biology