Collaborative projects

• Tineke Banda, Prof. S. Brul; Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety group, SILS-UvA
• Antonia Kaiser, Dr A. Schrantee; Dept of Radiology, Amsterdam UMC
• Lotte Brinkhof, Prof. R. Ridderinkhof; Developmental Psychology, FMG, UvA
• Lin Zhang, Prof. D.F. Swaab; Dept of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
• Tiffany Ernst, Dr B. Pollux; Experimental Zoology group, Wageningen University and Research
• Dr Pascal Bielefeld; Liston laboratory, Babraham institute, Cambridge UK

Present students in the group

Tom Hellings, MSc student (Meerhoff, Mul)
Quantification of ΔFosB induction in the hippocampus of rats following voluntary wheel running

Jiawei Yu, MSc student (Geertsema, Korosi)
The effects of n-6/n-3 PUFA availability on the morphology of and n-6 PUFA metabolization in microglia of early life stressed animals

Eline in’t Veld, BSc student (Sanguino, Krugers)
The effects of early life stress and GR antagonist intervention in adolescence on the engram size in the amygdala

Ruben de Klerk, MSc student (Berretta, Krugers)
The effects of early life adversity on emotional contagion in Sprague Dawley rats

Lars Bults, MSc student (Abiega, Fitzsimons)
Analysis of morphological and functional changes of hippocampal microglia in traumatic brain injury

Maroua El Ouraoui, MSc student (Abiega, Fitzsimons)
Analysis of functional changes of hippocampal neural stem cells in epilepsy

Sabine Stolker, BSc student (Brosens, Krugers)
The effects of early life stress on amyloid beta pathology in the prefrontal cortex of 3 months old APP/PS1 mice.

Sophie Heinis, MSc student (Kotah, Korosi)
Investigating early-life stress effects on brain vasculature and the blood brain barrier

Sophie Didden, BSc student (Hardonk, Mul)
The role of physical activity in promoting stress-resilience; UKBiobank and ∆FosB in rodents

Meike Doorenbos, BSc student (Hardonk, Mul)
The role of physical activity in promoting stress-resilience; StayFine and LEOPARD-PREDICT studies and ∆FosB in rodents

Chiara Cimetti, MSc student (Reemst, Korosi)
The effects of early-life stress and early dietary FA modulation on brain lipid and SPM composition

Adrian Beersing-Vasquez, MSc student (Mul)
Real-time analysis of the behaviour of groups of mice with access to a running wheel

Cass Maes, MSc student (Banda, Korosi)
Effects of early-life stress on microbiome and its relationship to cognitive outcomes.

 

Available student positions

Please contact our principal investigators directly for possibilities (see Research Lines)