Department of Biomedical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB  EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands

Office: HeO 4.31
Telephone: +31 40 247 3488
E-mail: m.m.c.bastings@remove-this.tue.nl

Biography
Maartje Bastings MSc (1984) studied Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology (2003-2008). Her master\'s program included two international research internships in the USA. She worked on the self-assembly of nanocylinders from triblock copolymers in  the group of Craig J. Hawker at the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Barbara and on the development of soft biomaterials via clickable artificial extracellular matrix proteins in the group of Dave A. Tirrell at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Maartje\'s educational program was completed cum laude with a research project on macrocyclization of enzyme based supramolecular polymers in the group of E.W. Meijer at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Maartje combined her undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering with a professional education in classical flute on the Fontys Conservatory, Tilburg (BMus, 2007).
In 2008 she was awarded a Toptalent Fellowship of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research proposal entitled: "From phage display to dendrimer display: a modular approach towards directed targeting". She is now active as a PhD student in the group of prof.dr. E.W. (Bert) Meijer, working on the understanding of multivalent binding mechanisms for directed targeting and the development of dynamic biomaterials.

The full CV of Maartje Bastings can be found here.

Publications

• M.M.C. Bastings, I van Baal, E.W. Meijer and M. Merkx, One-step refolding and purification of disulfide-containing proteins with a C-terminal MESNA thioester, BMC Biotechnology 8, 76 (2008)
• M.M.C. Bastings, T.F.A. de Greef, J.L.J. van Dongen, M. Merkx and E.W. Meijer, Macrocyclization of enzyme-based supramolecular polymers, Chem. Sci. 1, 79-88 (2010)
• M.M.C. Bastings, B.A. Helms, I. van Baal, T.M. Hackeng, M. Merkx and E.W. Meijer, From phage display to dendrimer display: Insights into multivalent binding, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 6636-6641 (2011)