Colin De Bakker, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

The CliniMACS Prodigy is a fully-integrated cell processing device that is used to standardize and automate the manufacturing of cell therapy products like CAR-T cells and stem cell grafts. The Cell & Gene Therapy Specialist team at Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. are the FAS for this device. They help academic, biopharma and CDMO labs use the Prodigy to develop.

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Train incoming flow cytometry team members and continually mentor them regarding time & territory management
• Create and implement best practices for training new and existing customers on the MACSQuant flow cytometer
• Develop and grow strategic business relationships in key biotech accounts
• Facilitate communications between global marketing managers, in-house science team, sales team and customers to ensure accurate and meaningful marketing actions are delivered to the flow cytometry community

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Support the Instrument Sales Specialist including giving customer-facing technical seminars, instrument demonstrations and aiding with prospecting and opportunity development
• Support Technical Sales Consultants in their efforts to grow flow cytometry reagent stream as well as up- and downstream applications
• Develop strong and meaningful cytometry applications on the MACSQuant instruments for individual customers

Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Design and implement novel, customer-specific assays encompassing the entire breadth of Miltenyi Biotec’s research portfolio
• Bridge communication between sales team and technically-minded scientists to ensure that the best solutions are delivered to the customer

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Dissected genetic networks involved in the organization and breakdown of tissues at the extreme anterior of developing Xenopus embryos.
• Developed novel techniques to silence specific genes in Xenopus including use of PolII and PolIII promoters to drive engineered miRNAs and shRNAs in cell culture and in the whole embryo.

Roxboro, NC, US

Planned and organized laboratory sessions for an introductory Microbiology course. Duties included preparing reagents, writing quizzes and practical examinations, lecturing and giving instruction on basic microbiology techniques.

Boston, MA, US

• Supported research projects pertaining to the pathogenesis of SIV and other viral, fungal and bacterial infections within the primate colony.
• Assisted veterinary pathologists with necropsies on non-human primates in Biosafety Level 2 and 3 (BL2, BL3) conditions; dissected and collected CNS tissue and prepared histological sections for examination.

Ph.D., Microbiology

B.A., Ecology