Robin H. van der Weide

Robin H. van der Weide is an Assistant Professor in computational and single-cell genomics at the Center for Molecular Medicine, UMC Utrecht. His research focuses on understanding how the many regulatory layers of the (epi)genome control cell identity in development and disease.

Robin combines cutting-edge experimental techniques with computational analysis to reveal hidden patterns in gene regulation. During his PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, he showed how the Cohesin protein complex creates physical loops in DNA, fundamentally shaping how the genome is organized in three dimensions.

As a postdoctoral researcher at the Hubrecht Institute, he co-developed MAbID, a technology that measures multiple features of gene regulation simultaneously in thousands of individual cells. This innovation opened new ways to study how cells make decisions and led to a biotechnology spin-off.

His lab takes a holistic approach to studying what turns genes on or off in healthy and diseased cells: single-cell chromatin systems biology. Robin is passionate about training the next generation of scientists and building a collaborative, transparent research environment.