profile: dr. s. kersten
Dr. Sander Kersten is associate professor (tenured) in the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group of the Division of Human Nutrition (Wageningen University). He studied nutrition at Wageningen University (MSc 1989-1993) and performed a PhD thesis in molecular nutrition (1993-1997) at Cornell University on the “Retinoic acid receptor”, an important nuclear receptor with relevance to this programme. After a 3-year period (1997-2000) as post-doc working on the relevance of the nuclear receptor PPARa for fasting related gene regulation at the University of Lausanne (Group Prof. W. Wahli) he moved in 2000 to Wageningen University (NMG-group) on a 5 year tenure track position funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He established his own group on gene regulation by PPARs with relevance to energy metabolism. His group contsist of 7-8 PhD students, postdocs and technicians. He is (co)author of 25 peer-reviewed publications.
memberships/awards
Since 2005, dr Kersten is associate editor of the online journal PPAR Research. Throughout his career he received the following awards:
- Ira and Dorothy Degenhardt fellowship, Graduate School, Cornell University
- Flora Rose fellowship, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
- Lydia Lueder Darling scholarship, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
- EMBO long term fellowship, top 10 scoring long-term fellows Spring 1997
- Roche Research foundation fellowship. Hoffmann La-Roche
- Fellowship Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
publications
15 Publications in peer-reviewed journals
2003-2006