Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Verna and Marrs Mclean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Primary Appointment
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Houston, Texas United States
Genetic Manipulation, Genome Engineering, Synthetic Biology, and Human Disease Modeling in Drosophila melanogaster
- Assistant Professor
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Department of Pharmacology
Secondary Appointment
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Houston, Texas United States
- Research Member
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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program of Cancer Biology
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Houston, Texas United States
- Assistant Professor
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Graduate Program in Developmental Biology
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Houston, Texas United States
- Assistant Professor
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Graduate Program in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
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Houston, Texas United States
- McNair Scholar
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- Research member
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Center for Drug Discovery
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Addresses
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One Baylor Plaza
Room: 319B
Houston, TX 77030-3411
United States
Phone: (713) 798-3698
Koen.Venken@bcm.edu
Education
- PhD from Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
- 09/2007 - Houston, Texas United States
- Developmental Biology
- MS from University of Antwerp
- 06/1999 - Antwerp, Antwerp Belgium
- Biochemistry
- BS from University of Antwerp
- 08/1997 - Antwerp, Antwerp Belgium
- Bioengineering
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
- 05/2012 - Houston, Texas United States
- Genetic Manipulation, Genome Engineering
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Ïã¸Û6ºÏ¿ª½±½á¹û
- 05/2013 - Houston, Texas United States
- Genetic Manipulation, Genome Engineering
Honors & Awards
- CPRIT Scholar
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- Houston (04/2014 - 03/2018)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
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- Houston (07/2010 - 06/2012)
- High Impact Publication Award
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- Houston (01/2007)
- Graduate Scholarship
- Government Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) (01/2000 - 04/2001)
Professional Interests
- Human Disease Modeling
- Genome Engineering
- Genetic Manipulation
- Method Development
- Technology Development
- Cellular and organismal model systems
- Synthetic Biology
- Transgenesis
- Cell biology
- Genetics
Professional Statement
Probing and understanding multigenic biomedical phenomena using state-of-the-art synthetic biology, cell biology, genetics, genome engineering and transgenesis technologies in cellular and organismal model systemsWebsites
Selected Publications
- Venken KJ, Schulze KL, Haelterman NA, Pan H, He Y, Evans-Holm M, Carlson JW, Levis RW, Spradling AC, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ. "." Nature Methods. 2011 Sep 1;8(9):737-743. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJ, Simpson JH, Bellen HJ. "." Neuron. 2011 Oct 20;72(2):202-230. Pubmed PMID:
- Neumüller RA, Wirtz-Peitz F, Lee S, Kwon Y, Buckner M, Hoskins RA, Venken KJ, Bellen HJ, Mohr SE, Perrimon N. "." Genetics. 2012 Mar 1;190(3):931-940. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJ, Bellen HJ. "." Methods in Molecular Biology. 2012 Feb 1;859:203-228. Pubmed PMID:
- Szabad J, Bellen HJ, Venken KJ. "." G3 • Genes | Genomes | Genetics. 2012 Sep 9;2(9):1095-1102. Pubmed PMID:
- Cassidy JJ, Jha AR, Posadas DM, Giri R, Venken KJ, Ji J, Jiang H, Bellen HJ, White KP, Carthew RW. "." Cell. 2013 Dec 19;155(7):1556-1567. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJ, Bellen HJ. "." Methods. 2014 Jun 15;68(1):15-28. Pubmed PMID:
- Geiser J, Venken KJ, De Lisle RC, Andrews GK. "." PLoS Genetics. 2012 Jun 21;8(6):e1002766. Pubmed PMID:
- Chen YC, Lin YQ, Banerjee S, Venken K, Li J, Ismat A, Chen K, Duraine L, Bellen HJ, Bhat MA. "." Journal of Neuroscience. 2012 Nov 7;32(45):16018-16030. Pubmed PMID:
- Zheng L, Michelson Y, Freger V, Avraham Z, Venken KJ, Bellen HJ, Justice MJ, Wides R. "." PLoS One. 2011 Aug 8;6(8):e22956. Pubmed PMID:
- Alves-Silva J, Sánchez-Soriano N, Beaven R, Klein M, Parkin J, Millard TH, Bellen HJ, Venken KJT, Ballestrem C, Kammerer RA, Prokop A. "." Journal of Neuroscience. 2012 Jul 4;32(27):9143-9158. Pubmed PMID:
- Nègre N et al. "." Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):527-531. Pubmed PMID:
- modENCODE Consortium et al. "." Science. 2010 Dec 24;330(6012):1787-1797. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT, Popodi E, Holtzman SL, Schulze KL, Park S, Carlson JW, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ, Kaufman TC. "." Genetics. 2010 Dec 1;186(4):1111-1125. Pubmed PMID:
- Verstreken P, Ohyama T, Haueter C, Habets RLP, Lin YQ, Swan LE, Ly CV, Venken KJT, De Camilli P, Bellen HJ. "." Neuron. 2009 Jul 30;63(2):203-215. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT, Carlson JW, Schulze KL, Pan H, He Y, Spokony R, Wan KH, Koriabine M, de Jong PJ, White KP, Bellen HJ, Hoskins RA. "." Nature Methods. 2009 Jun 1;6(6):431-434. Pubmed PMID:
- Pepple KL, Atkins M, Venken K, Wellnitz K, Harding M, Frankfort B, Mardon G. "." Development. 2008 Dec 1;135(24):4071-4079. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT, Bellen HJ. "." Nature Reviews Genetics. 2005 Mar 1;6(3):167-178. Pubmed PMID:
- Koh TW, Korolchuk VI, Wairkar YP, Jiao W, Evergren E, Pan H, Zhou Y, Venken KJT, Shupliakov O, Robinson IM, O'Kane CJ, Bellen HJ. "." Journal of Cell Biology. 2007 Jul 16;178(2):309-322. Pubmed PMID:
- Shroyer NF, Wallis D, Venken KJT, Bellen HJ, Zoghbi HY. "." Genes and Development. 2005 Oct 15;19(20):2412-2417. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT, He Y, Hoskins RA, Bellen HJ. "." Science. 2006 Dec 15;314(5806):1747-1751. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT*, Kasprowicz J*, Kuenen S, Yan J, Hassan BA, Verstreken P. "." Nucleic Acids Research. 2008 Sep 1;36(18):e114. Pubmed PMID:
- Verstreken P, Ly CV, Venken KJT, Koh TW, Zhou Y, Bellen HJ. "." Neuron. 2005 Aug 4;47(3):365-378. Pubmed PMID:
- Tsuda H, Jafar-Nejad H, Patel AJ, Sun Y, Chen HK, Rose MF, Venken KJT, Botas J, Orr HT, Bellen HJ, Zoghbi HY. "." Cell. 2005 Aug 26;122(4):633-644. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken KJT, Bellen HJ. "." Development. 2007 Oct 1;134(20):3571-84. Pubmed PMID:
- Kazanjian A, Wallis D, Au N, Nigam R, Venken KJT, Cagle PT, Dickey BF, Bellen HJ, Gilks CB, Grimes HL. "." Cancer Research. 2004 Sep 1;64(19):6874-6878. Pubmed PMID:
- Watase K, Venken KJT, Sun Y, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY. "." Human Molecular Genetics. 2003 Nov 1;12(21):2789-2795. Pubmed PMID:
- Wallis D, Hamblen M, Zhou Y, Venken KJT, Schumacher A, Grimes HL, Zoghbi HY, Orkin SH, Bellen HJ. "." Development. 2003 Jan 1;130(1):221-232. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken K, Meuleman J, Irobi J, Ceuterick C, Martini R, De Jonghe P, Timmerman V. "." Neuroreport. 2001 Aug 8;12(11):2609-2614. Pubmed PMID:
- Irobi J, Nelis E, Meuleman J, Venken K, De Jonghe P, Van Broeckhoven C, Timmerman V. "." Annals of Human Genetics. 2001 Oct 1;65(6):517-529. Pubmed PMID:
- Venken K, Di Maria E, Bellone E, Balestra P, Cassandrini D, Mandich P, De Jonghe P, Timmerman V, Svaren J. "." Neurogenetics. 2002 Mar 1;4(1):37-41. Pubmed PMID:
- "Large-scale identification of chemically induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster." ;
- "Loss of SPARC dysregulates basal lamina assembly to disrupt larval fat body homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster." ;
- "Gene-specific cell labeling using MiMIC transposons." ;
- "A library of MiMICs allows tagging of genes and reversible, spatial and temporal knockdown of proteins in Drosophila." ;
- "Genome engineering: Drosophila melanogaster and beyond." ;
- "Homology requirements for efficient, footprintless gene editing at the CFTR Locus in human iPSCs with helper-dependent adenoviral vectors." ;
- "The current state of the neuroanatomy toolkit in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster." ;
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Funding
- Novel Approaches to Probe and Validate Disease Pathways in Drosophila melanogaster - #N/A (07/01/2013 - 06/30/2021) Gift funding from McNair Medical Institute
- Novel Approaches to Probe and Validate Cancer Pathways in Drosophila melanogaster - #R1313 (03/01/2014 - 02/28/2018) Grant funding from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
- The Drosophila Gene Tagging Project: Transgenes with Swappable Protein Tags - #1R21HG006726 (07/01/2013 - 06/30/2014) Grant funding from National Institutes of Health
- Dissecting Pathways that Regulate Social Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster - #1-FY14-315 (07/01/2014 - 06/30/2017) Grant funding from March of Dimes Foundation
- Using Cell and Fly Models to Understand Gene Function in Undiagnosed Diseases - #1R21GM110190 (07/01/2014 - 06/30/2016) Grant funding from National Institutes of Health
- Serotonergic modulation of aggression in Drosophila melanogaster - #1R01GM109938 (07/01/2015 - 06/30/2020) Grant funding from National Institutes of Health
- Resolving complex systemic endogenous expression patterns into subcellular high-resolution localization - #1R21OD022981 (07/01/2016 - 06/30/2018) Grant funding from National Institutes of Health
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