Ciska Lindelauf

Curriculum Vitae

I studied Liberal Arts and Sciences, majoring in life and biomedical sciences, at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, the Netherlands. After obtaining my bachelor’s degree, I moved to Stockholm, Sweden, to follow the master’s program in Biomedicine at the Karolinska Institutet, where I specialized in immunology and infection biology.

After graduating in 2021, I moved back to the Netherlands to work as a research technician in the Mucosal Immunology group at the LUMC, then led by Prof. Dr. Frits Koning. In the following two years, I familiarized myself with high-dimensional spectral flow cytometry in the context of IBD research.

Research 

Since November 2023 I continue to work in the Mucosal Immunology group, now lead by Dr. Vincent van Unen, and transitioned from research technician to PhD candidate. I have always been fascinated by the intersection between the human immune system and microbes. For my PhD project, I will investigate the interaction between T cells and the intestinal microbiota in the context of IBD. This includes the identification of commensal-reactive T cells that play a potentially pathogenic role in IBD, as well as studying the response of the T cell compartment to microbiota-modifying therapeutics.