Stanley Brul

Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

Stanley Brul

Stanley Brul (1964) was trained as Biochemist and graduated “cum laude” in 1986. In 1991 he obtained a PhD at the AMC in Amsterdam in the area of genetic and biochemical aspects of peroxisome biogenesis. He went in 1990 as a post-doctoral fellow to Nijmegen University (Microbiology and Evolutionary Biology) and obtained an NWO (NATO) TALENT Stipendium to work on the biogenesis of hydrogenosomes. During that time he also spent a few months at the Rockefeller University in New York. In 1994 Stanley moved to Unilever R & D to work on microbial physiology and in 2002 to the University of Amsterdam as full professor of Molecular Biology & Microbial Food Safety (MBMFS) where he is since 2007 the director of the educational program in Bio-medical Sciences. His research focuses on microbial stress response including in particular the molecular physiology of bacterial spores, antibiotic resistance development and the identification of new antibiotic targets.

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