Pieter Vlies's Biography

Pieter Vlies, General Facility Manager, University Medical Centre Groningen

After an education as a research technician in the eighties, I started my career at the University Medical Centre in Groningen. In this period of time I did several jobs:
• Research technician on a project to map a disease gene using a linkage approach
• Research technician on a cancer research project to unravel the cancer mechanism
• Head technician of the DNA-diagnostic lab, facilitating a growing number of diagnostic tests
• Head technician of a new micro-array facility, involved in both RNA-expression experiments and ArrayCGH experiments
• Manager of the Genome Analysis Facility of the department, and working together with many researchers in the field of RNA-expression studies, genotyping and Next Generation sequencing