Dr. Marieke Louwers

Marieke Louwers
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Technologiepark 927 - 9052 Ghent
  • +3293313523

Education

2003-2008 PhD in Biology
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Paramutation and Chromatin Dynamics in Maize: Long-range Chromatin Looping within the b1 locus
2001-2003 Master in Biotechnology
Ghent University, Belgium
1998-2001 Bachelor in Chemistry
Ghent University, Belgium

Professional positions

Research Manager VIB- UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology 2017-current
Research Project Manager at CropDesign, a BASF Plant Science company 2014-2016
Sr. Scientist Integrated Crop Knowledge at CropDesign, a BASF Plant Science company 2012-2014
Sr. Scientist Yield Biology at CropDesign, a BASF Plant Science company 2009-2012
Technology Management Coordinator at CropDesign, a BASF Plant Science company 2008-2009

Publications

  • Hoevel I, Louwers M (equal contribution), Stam M. 3C Technologies in Plants. Methods, 58(3): 204 211 (2012)  
  • Haring M, Louwers M, Bader M, Schwabe A, van Driel R, Stam M. The role of DNA methylation, nucleosome occupancy and histone modifications in paramutation. Plant Journal, 63: 366-378 (2010)
  • Louwers M, Splinter E, van Driel R, de Laat W, Stam M. Studying physical chromatin interactions in plants using Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C). Nature Protocols, 4(8):1216-29 (2009).
  • Louwers M, Bader R, Haring M, van Driel R, de Laat W, Stam M. Tissue- and expression level-specific chromatin looping at maize b1 epialleles. Plant Cell, 21(3):832-42 (2009).
  • Stam M and Louwers M. Paramutation: Heritable in Trans Effects. In Maize Handbook – Volume II: Genetics and Genomics, J. Bennetzen and S. Hake (eds.), Springer Science, pp. 405-427 (2009).
  • Louwers, M., Haring, M., and Stam, M. When alleles meet: Paramutation. In Plant Epigenetics, P. Meyer (ed.), Oxford, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 134–173 (2005).

Patent Applications

  • WO 2010/023320 (04/03/2010), WO 2011/036160 (31/03/2011), WO 2012/117324 (07/09/2012), WO 2012/153267 (15/11/2012), WO 2013/072832 (23/05/2013), WO 2014/191866 (04/12/2014) and patent applications derived thereof.
  • US 2012-0180165 (12/07/2012), US 2013-0340120 (19/12/2013), US 2014-0123343 (01/05/2014), US 2014-0352004 (27/11/2014).