A. Gemmink, Ph.D.

In September 2011 she started her PhD at the Department of Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University under the supervision of Prof. dr. Matthijs Hesselink, Prof. dr. Patrick Schrauwen and Prof. dr. Marc van Zandvoort. After pioneering studies on the role of FSP27 in skeletal muscle, she switched topic and focused on skeletal muscle lipid droplet morphology, location, composition and coating with PLIN5 in the (patho)physiology of insulin sensitivity. During her studies she was involved in setting up (3D) confocal and STED imaging in skeletal muscle tissue for further studying lipid droplet morphology and protein decoration. She pursued her postdoc in the lab of Prof. Rudi Zechner and dr. Martina Schweiger at the University of Graz, Austria to study the role of ATGL in skeletal muscle lipid metabolism.

Back in Maastricht Anne continued working with applying light microscopy on skeletal muscle samples and cultured human primary myotubes to study the role of lipid droplets and mitochondrial networks in metabolic diseases. Furthermore she is currently part time seconded at the Microscopy CORE Lab as a specialist in light microscopy.