Last Wednesday I joined the seminar of Helen Pickersgill. Helen did her PhD at the NKI-AvL followed by a postdoc position in the United States. Instead of continuing her scientific career she chose for a job as an editor. After one year as Scientific Editor for Developmental Cell at Cell Press, she became consultant scientific editor at Science magazine.

First of all I would like to thank you for your comments. I think it’s important for the postdocblogs that people share their opinions and experiences and ask questions. So let’s try to answer some of those questions!

Hello fellow PhD students and postdocs my name is Richard Heideman and I’m 34 years old. Currently I’m working as a last year PhD student in the group of Dr. H. Jacobs at the immunology department of the NKI-AvL in Amsterdam. My research focuses on antibody diversification processes like V(D)J recombination, somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. The major aim is to understand how disregulation of these mutagenic processes can initiate lymphomagenesis.