Dr Gert Schaart (G.)

Dr. Gert Schaart is research technician at the Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences. As molecular cell biologist, he improves, develops and applies immunohistochemical staining techniques, set-up in vivo and in vitro microscopy analyses for confocal microscopy and STED microscopy, and is expert in Western blotting and detection systems. These techniques are especially improved and suitable for human and murine skeletal muscle tissue. Gert also participates in culturing and analyzing human primary myocytes, C2C12, CaCO-2, HepG2 cell-lines. He has experience in isolating PBMCs and FACS-analyses. Gert coaches and supports PhD-students and technicians. Gert is (co)-author of more than 150 papers in international scientific journals as Cell, Nature Med., Nature Comm., Nature Metab.,  Diabetes, Obesity,  Mol. Metab., Sci. Reports, Basic Res. Cardiol.