Jan-willem Veening BSc, MSc, PhD

Jan-Willem Veening obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Groningen (UG), the Netherlands, and received postdoctoral training at the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.
In 2009, he joined the faculty of the UG, as Assistant Professor in the Molecular Genetics Department of the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute. In 2016 he moved to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland as full professor at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology. The Veening lab uses systems and synthetic biology approaches to study chromosome segregation, antibiotic resistance development, and noise in gene expression in the pneumococcus.