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Judith Klumperman is since 2001 professor of Cell Biology at the University Medical Centre Utrecht in The Netherlands. Her laboratory focuses on understanding membrane trafficking in health and disease, with focus on the endolysosomal system. Her lab is widely recognized as expertise centre for electron microscopy (EM), especially immuno-EM and correlative microscopy (CLEM), and serves as CLEM expert node within the European BioImaging initiative https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/). Judith’s current research focuses on the role of tethering complexes in lysosome biogenesis and the role of lysosomes in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Judith is EMBO member and recipient of numerous grants among which a prestigious VICI award from the talent program of the Dutch National Society for Scientific research. Since 2018 Judith chairs the national Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure (https://nemi.microscopie.nl/) for which she received a national Roadmap grant.

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