Bart Eggen

Bart Eggen received his MSc and PhD (1995) from the University of Utrecht. He obtained a Human Frontiers Science Program fellowship to work with Prof. Gail Mandel at the State University of New York and later with Prof. Ali Hemmati Brivanlou at the Rockefeller University in New York. In 2000, he joined the Department of Developmental Genetics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and in 2010, he moved to the Department of Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. There his main research focus is on the regulation of microglia identity and function in the context of the normal brain, during aging and under neuroinflammatory or neurodegenerative conditions.