NBS and FEBS Travel Grants for Internships

Grants for international internships

The Nora Baart Stichting (NBS) has awarded travel grants to three students:

Marieke Nühn (Utrecht University) of the Master Infection & Immunity will visit the lab of Sharon Lewin at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia. She will work on a Toolbox to study role CD4+ T cells with respect to HIV.

Rozemarijn van der Veen (Radboud University) of the Master Molecular Mechanisms of Disease will do her internship in the lab of Timothy Elston, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, USA. She will model differential osmosensing in the yeast high osmolarity response pathway.

Lauren de Haan (Utrecht University) of the Master Cancer, Stem Cells and Developmental Biology will visit the lab of Don Cleveland, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research – University of California San Diego. She will study the role of serine/threonine protein kinases in aneuploidy, and how this results in chromosome instability and cancer.

Previous recent travel grants from the Nora Baart Stichting:

Cas Boshoven  (Radboud University Nijmegen) will visit the lab of Branden Crabb, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia to investigate protein transport arrest following knockdown of the protein export machine PTEX, in malaria parasites

Coen van Deursen (Utrecht University) will be supported to visit the lab of  Clare Parish, Stem Cells and Neural Development group, Melbourne, Australia. He will study differentiation of pluripotent stem cells and their role in Huntington's disease.

Cynthia Siebrand (Utrecht University) will use the travel grant to study ageing in neuronal stem cells in the lab of Anne Brunet, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

Olivier Schäffers (Radboud University Nijmegen) will visit the lab of Joseph Bonventre, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He will investigate advanced renal tubular models for bioprinting of perfusable human nephron organoid-derived tubule constructs

Rianne de Jongh (Utrecht University) will be supported to study human axonal trajectories from grafted organoids in the lab of Fred Gage, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA

Laureen de Bever (Technical University Eindhoven) will visit the lab of Margeret Brimble, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. She will investigate the stability of boronated peptides in cancer treatment.