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  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Wim Vermeulen is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Genetics, Immunology, and Aging.

The scientist has a notable focus on DNA Repair Mechanisms, with additional research interests covering CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, RNA regulation and disease, RNA modifications and cancer, and Influenza Virus Research Studies.

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Hannes Lans
  • Arjan F. Theil
  • Jurgen A. Marteijn
  • Jeroen Demmers
  • Anja Raams

The main publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Molecular Cell
  • Nature

Recent papers illustrate the scope of their research contributions:

  • R-loop-derived cytoplasmic RNA-DNA hybrids activate an immune response, 2022, Nature
  • Elongation factor ELOF1 drives transcription-coupled repair and prevents genome instability, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • Global and transcription-coupled repair of 8-oxoG is initiated by nucleotide excision repair proteins, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Ubiquitin and TFIIH-stimulated DDB2 dissociation drives DNA damage handover in nucleotide excision repair, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Prevention of influenza during mismatched seasons in older adults with an MF59-adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine: a randomised, controlled, multicentre, phase 3 efficacy study, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Wim Vermeulen has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Understanding nucleotide excision repair and its roles in cancer and ageing

    Jurgen A. Marteijn;Hannes Lans;Wim Vermeulen;Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers

  • DNA repair helicase: a component of BTF2 (TFIIH) basic transcription factor

    Laurent Schaeffer;Richard Roy;Sandrine Humbert;Vincent Moncollin

  • Sequential Assembly of the Nucleotide Excision Repair Factors In Vivo

    Marcel Volker;Martijn J Moné;Parimal Karmakar;Anneke van Hoffen

  • ERCC6, a member of a subfamily of putative helicases, is involved in Cockayne's syndrome and preferential repair of active genes.

    Christine Troelstra;Alain van Gool;Jan de Wit;Wim Vermeulen

  • A new progeroid syndrome reveals that genotoxic stress suppresses the somatotroph axis

    Laura J. Niedernhofer;George A. Garinis;Anja Raams;Astrid S. Lalai

  • RNF168 Ubiquitinates K13-15 on H2A/H2AX to Drive DNA Damage Signaling

    Francesca Mattiroli;Joseph H.A. Vissers;Willem J. van Dijk;Pauline Ikpa

  • Clasps are CLIP-115 and -170 associating proteins involved in the regional regulation of microtubule dynamics in motile fibroblasts.

    Anna Akhmanova;Casper C. Hoogenraad;Ksenija Drabek;Tatiana Stepanova

  • The MO15 cell cycle kinase is associated with the TFIIH transcription-DNA repair factor

    Richard Roy;Jörg P. Adamczewski;Thierry Seroz;Wim Vermeulen

  • A presumed DNA helicase encoded by ERCC-3 is involved in the human repair disorders xeroderma pigmentosum and Cockayne's syndrome.

    Geert Weeda;Reinier C.A. van Ham;Wim Vermeulen;Dirk Bootsma

  • Nuclear dynamics of PCNA in DNA replication and repair.

    Jeroen Essers;Arjan F. Theil;Céline Baldeyron;Wiggert A. van Cappellen

  • Cockayne syndrome A and B proteins differentially regulate recruitment of chromatin remodeling and repair factors to stalled RNA polymerase II in vivo.

    Maria Fousteri;Wim Vermeulen;Albert A. van Zeeland;Leon H.F. Mullenders

  • ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling by the Cockayne Syndrome B DNA Repair-Transcription-Coupling Factor

    Elisabetta Citterio;Vincent Van Den Boom;Gavin Schnitzler;Roland Kanaar

  • Action of DNA repair endonuclease ERCC1/XPF in living cells.

    Adriaan B. Houtsmuller;Suzanne Rademakers;Alex L. Nigg;Deborah Hoogstraten

  • Abrogation of p53-induced Apoptosis by the Hepatitis B Virus X Gene

    Xin Wei Wang;Michael K. Gibson;Wim Vermeulen;Heidi Yeh

  • The XPB and XPD DNA helicases are components of the p53-mediated apoptosis pathway.

    Xin Wei Wang;Wim Vermeulen;Jill D. Coursen;Michael Gibson

  • DNA Damage Response

    Giuseppina Giglia-Mari;Angelika Zotter;Wim Vermeulen

  • A new, tenth subunit of TFIIH is responsible for the DNA repair syndrome trichothiodystrophy group A

    Giuseppina Giglia-Mari;Frederic Coin;Jeffrey A Ranish;Deborah Hoogstraten

  • DNA damage triggers nucleotide excision repair-dependent monoubiquitylation of histone H2A

    Steven Bergink;Florian A. Salomons;Deborah Hoogstraten;Tom A.M. Groothuis

  • Coordination of dual incision and repair synthesis in human nucleotide excision repair

    Lidija Staresincic;Adebanke F. Fagbemi;Jacqueline H. Enzlin;Audrey M. Gourdin

  • Human USP3 is a chromatin modifier required for S phase progression and genome stability

    Francesco Nicassio;Nadia Corrado;Joseph H.A. Vissers;Liliana B. Areces

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Adriaan B. Houtsmuller
Adriaan B. Houtsmuller Erasmus University Rotterdam
Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers
Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dirk Bootsma
Dirk Bootsma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jean-Marc Egly
Jean-Marc Egly Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Roland Kanaar
Roland Kanaar Erasmus University Rotterdam
Laura J. Niedernhofer
Laura J. Niedernhofer University of Minnesota
Roel van Driel
Roel van Driel University of Amsterdam
Claire Wyman
Claire Wyman Erasmus MC
Alan R. Lehmann
Alan R. Lehmann University of Sussex

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