I am a 2nd year Master student at Eindhoven University of Technology, where I study Applied Physics. A travel grant from the Netherlands’ Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering helped me to visit UPenn, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia for an external research project of three months.
I am a PhD student at the Academic Medical Center, where I perform research on imaging techniques to diagnose prostate cancer. A travel grant from the Netherlands' Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering enabled me to visit the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in Boston (part of Harvard and Massachusetts’s General Hospital) for three months.
From the 30th of August to the 13th of September 2011 I have visited the lab of Keith Lidke at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque to perform direct STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (dSTORM) to gain more insight into the ultrastructure of podosomes.
I’m a post-doc in the Department of Tumor Immunology at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. I study the dynamics of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) with single-particle tracking microscopy, which I believe is a key approach to directly monitor the function of a protein or protein complex within its natural environment.
The main topic of our project is the optimization and evaluation of co-registered EEG and functional MRI in patients who are candidates for epilepsy surgery. This project is a collaboration between Kempenhaeghe (dr. Pauly Ossenblok and Prof. dr. Paul Boon), VU medical center (dr. Jan de Munck and Prof. Dr. Kees Stam) and UMC Utrecht (dr. Frans Leijten). EEG-fMRI is a relatively new technique, which has been used as a research tool, but our results and the results of other groups indicate that EEG-fMRI is well suitable as a clinical tool