Floris Barthel

Postdoctoral Associate

Deploys next-generation sequencing techniques to understand brain tumor biology and telomere mechanics

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About Floris Barthel, M.D.

Dr. Barthel received his M.D. degree from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam prior to joining the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to pursue a postdoctoral position in glioma genomics. He research is focused on transcriptional and epigenetic profiling of gliomas and in understanding the genomic basis of telomere maintenance in cancer.

Education and Experience

2016-present: Postdoctoral Associate. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut.

2014-2016: Senior Research Assistant. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

2007-2014: M.D., Medicine. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Search MagazineAugust 14, 2018
Understanding our inheritence
To find out more about the complexities of inheritance, JAX spoke with author and New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer, who frequently writes about genetics and evolution. His new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, tackles the vast concept of heredity – everything that living organisms pass on to future generations, and the means by which they do so.
Press ReleaseAugust 01, 2018
A RACIPE for success
New five-year, $2.2M outstanding investigator grant to Mingyang Lu will support systems biology algorithm approach.
Tech CornerJuly 23, 2018
Developing better gene editing technology
New CRISPR technology will be used to more quickly develop mouse models for gastric cancer, Down syndrome and other applications.
Research HighlightJune 28, 2018
How do cancer cells achieve immortality?
Cancer cell immortality leads to massive tumors, metastatic spread, and potentially re-emergence. Researchers are working to determine how cancer cells achieve immortality.
- Cancer/Tumors
- Cancer

Press ReleaseAugust 01, 2018
$2M NIH Grant to Study Genetic Mechanisms of Inherited Heart Muscle Disorders
Travis Hinson, M.D., has received more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the mechanisms responsible for a serious and often fatal heart condition.
- Cardiovascular
- Genetics and Genomics
Research HighlightJuly 30, 2018
Immune system 2.0: Can we re-engineer the human immune response?
JAX researchers have demonstrated the ability to target and disrupt specific genes and/or alter their expression levels, which has important implications for both immunology research and clinical treatments.
Research HighlightJuly 12, 2018
The distinct forms of an important genomic disruption
A new paper further explains the genomic disruption known as the tandem duplicator phenotype (TDP), a common attribute in some of the most deadly cancers of women.
Minute to UnderstandingJune 28, 2018
What is epigenetics?
Learn how epigenetic changes can affect an individual without physically changing their DNA sequence.
- Aging
- Genetics and Genomics

Floris Barthel, M.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

About Floris Barthel, M.D.

Selected Publications