Ronald Plasterk

Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk ( born April 12, 1957 in The Hague) is November 5, 2012, the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories in the Cabinet Rutte II From February 22 2007 to February 23, 2010 he was the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science. Plasterk is members of the Partij van de Arbeid ( PvdA), is a biologist and author of several columns.

Life

After his graduation, Ronald Plasterk studied at the University of Amsterdam economics, but switched after the bachelor's degree to study biology at the University of Leiden. In the same field, he put his degree in 1981 and then received his doctorate from Leiden with his work, " Inversion of the G segment of bacteriophage Mu, analysis of a genetic switch" in math and science. Then he attended a post graduate program at the California Institute of Technology and at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. As of October 11, 1982 Ronald Plasterk was for two years, until September 1, 1984, when members of the PvdA councilor in Leiden.

From 1987 until 2000 he was at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital group leader of the Dutch Cancer Institute. He was also the first from 1993-1997 Foundation Professor of Molecular Biology at the Free University of Amsterdam and subsequently he was appointed Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Amsterdam.

In 1995 he began writing columns for the magazine Intermediair and from 1999 for the newspaper de Volkskrant.

In 2000 he was appointed director of the Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology ( KNAW ) in Utrecht.