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Jaap Kaandorp

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Street / P.O. Box
Kruislaan 403
Zip code
1098 SJ
City
Amsterdam
Country
The Netherlands
E-mail
J.A.Kaandorp@removethis.uva.nl
Phone number(s)
+31 20 5257539
+31 20 5257462
Fax
+31 20 5257419
Website(s)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~j...

Principal Research

My research interests are: morphogenesis, marine sessile organisms, evolutionary processes, modelling and simulation of developmental regulatory networks and metabolic pathways, modelling and simulation of growth and form, biomechanics. Currently I have a group of 2 MSc and 10 Phd students and one postdoc at the Section Computational Science of the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. We do research at a range of different levels of organisation (genome-gene regulatory networks-cells-tissue-organism). We work on modelling and analysis of gene regulation in cnidarians (corals and Nematostella vectensis), sponges, yeast and Drosophila. We do research on biomineralisation in corals and sponges (experimental and modelling work). We are working on growth and form of corals and the influence of light and hydrodynamics on the morphological plasticity and calcification in corals. This work is a combination of modelling work, a genetic comparison between different growth forms, phylogenetics, morphometrics of three-dimensional growth forms obtained from CT scans and field work.

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Jaap A. Kaandorp received his MS, with distinction, in biology (main subject marine biology) in 1985 and a PhD (subject modelling growth and form of marine organisms) in computer science and mathematics in 1992, both from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked from 1985 -1987 as a researcher at the Centre of Computer Science and Mathematics in Amsterdam. In 1992 he did research as a postdoctoral fellow, on a Government of Canada Award, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Calgary in Canada. Currently he works as an associate professor at the Section Computational Science of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics & Astronomy of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are: morphogenesis, marine sessile organisms, evolutionary processes, modelling and simulation of developmental regulatory networks and metabolic pathways, modelling and simulation of growth and form, biomechanics.

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