Biography:

Joëlle Kartopawiro got her PhD in Molecular Genetics in the Ben Hogan Lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience of the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). Her work involved the ‘Identification and characterization of novel regulators of lymphatic vessel development’ using the zebrafish Danio rerio as the main animal model.

After her graduation, she worked temporarily as a research assistant in the Carol Wicking Lab on the ‘Characterisation of the wdr60-TALEN zebrafish scoliosis mutant’ and in the Melissa Little Lab on the ‘Characterisation of intercalating kidney mesenchymal stem cell-like cells into neonatal collecting ducts’. When she moved back to Suriname, she joined the Department of Pharmacology at the faculty of Medical Sciences of AdeKUS, where she performed clinical studies on Surinamese medicinal plants and investigating their effect on angiogenesis.

Currently, Kartopawiro teaches at the Department of Biology and is the acting program coordinator of the Chemistry Department. Her research interests include the use of the zebrafish Danio rerio animal model in environmental studies and exploring the use of microorganisms in (waste)water treatment.

Research (with others):

• The sixth national report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2019).
• Exploring the global animal biodiversity in the search for new drugs – insects (2016).
• Meeting of the minds – Traditional herbal medicine in multi-ethnic Suriname (2016).
• IQGAP2 is a novel mediator of Vegf-signaling during zebrafish lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis (2014).
• Arap3 is dysregulated in a mouse model of hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia and regulates lymphatic vascular development. Hum Mol Genet. (2013).
• Annexin A1 regulates TGF-beta signaling and promotes metastasis formation of basal-like breast cancer cells (2010). 

Publications: 

N/A (see Researchgate).

Contact details:

joelle.kartopawiro@uvs.edu
Tel: +597 7179141