Ing. Christa Mateman (1970) graduated as biochemical technician in 1993 at the "Hoge School Enschede". In her final year she worked as a student at the NIZO (Netherlands Institute for Dairy Research) developing markers for detection and identification of lactic acid bacteria. She started working for the NIOO in 1993, initially for the Department of Plant Population Biology and subsequently for the Department of Animal Ecology. Her work involves developing techniques for sexing birds, screening for extra pair copulations (microsatellites), studying genetic variation (next generation sequencing, SNP-detection) and gene expression (qPCR). To learn new techniques and meet other people she visited the follwing places:
 
2013 Course Bioinformatics (WUR)
2010 Analysis of 10.000 SNPs with an Illumina iSelect BeadChip
2009 Course Genomics Wageningen University
2007 Visit University of Sheffield to follow AFLP course
2005 Visit Univeristy of Edinburgh to learn how to use microsatellite data for population studies
2003 Visit University of Cambridge to learn how to develop an enriched library to find microsatellites
1996 Visit three labs in the UK to learn more about microsatellites
(Institute of Zoology in Oxford; University of Cambridge and University of Leicester)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Epigenetics of animal personality: DNA methylation and its influence on exploratory behaviour in great tits
Recent studies have shown that early developmental effects and environmental conditions experienced by parents also affect personality traits, even over multiple generations. Yet, the mechanisms underlying such transgenerational regulation remain unknown, while determining them is crucial to...Read more
Evolutionary responses to a warming world: physiological genomics of seasonal timing
The world is seasonal and organisms’ adjustment of their seasonal timing to this environmental variation is crucial for their fitness. Climate change is strongly impacting seasonal timing which makes a better understanding of the potential for micro-evolution of timing in natural populations...Read more

 

 

 

 

Gienapp, P., Laine, V., Mateman, A. C., van Oers, K., & Visser, M. E. (2017). Environment-Dependent Genotype-Phenotype Associations in Avian Breeding Time. Frontiers in Genetics

Verhulst, E., Mateman, A. C., Zwier, M. V., Caro, S. P., Verhoeven, K. J. F., & van Oers, K. (2016). Evidence from Pyrosequencing Indicates that Natural Variation in Animal Personality is Associated with DRD4 DNA Methylation. Molecular Ecology, 25(8), 1801-1811

Van Dijk, J. G. B., Mateman, A. C., & Klaassen, M. R. J. (2014). Transfer of maternal antibodies against avian influenza virus in mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). PLoS One, 9(11)
 
Van Bers, N. E. M., Santure, A. W., Van Oers, K., de Cauwer, I., Dibbits, B. W., Mateman, A. C.,... Slate, J. (2012). The design and cross-population application of a genome-wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major. Molecular Ecology Resources, 12(4), 753-770
 
Dasmahapatra, K. K., Lessells, C. M., Mateman, A. C., & Amos, W. (2004). Microsatellite loci in the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster. Molecular Ecology Notes, 4(3), 500-502

Heg, D., Dingemanse, N. J., Lessells, C. M., & Mateman, A. C. (2000). Parental correlates of offspring sex ratio in Eurasian Oystercatchers. The Auk, 117(4), 980-986. 
 
Lessells, C. M., & Mateman, A. C. (1998). Sexing birds using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Molecular Ecology, 7(2), 187-195
 
Verboven, N., & Mateman, A. C. (1997). Low frequency of extra-pair fertilizations in the Great Tit Parus major revealed by DNA fingerprinting. Journal of Avian Biology, 28(3), 231-239.