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Introducing Life SciencesIntroduction week for all first year Master’s students

of the Graduate School of Life Sciences

31 August – 4 September 2015


of the Graduate School of Life Sciences 2015

Programme overview

Monday31 August

Tuesday 1 September

Wednesday 2 September

Thursday 3 September

Friday 4 September

11:00 – 12:30

Mor

ning

9:00 – 11:00

For foreign students only

International office UU

9:00 – 12:45

Alumni

9:00 – 12:30

Career development

Academic writing

9:00 – 12:30

Mini-symposiumU/Select

Keynote lecture:Prof Ineke Braakman

9:45 – 11:00

Introduction to the Graduate School of

Life Sciences II

12:30 – 13:30

Introduction to the Graduate School of

Life Sciences I

11:15 – 12:45

Scientific Integrity I

Lunch with alumni*Lunch break Lunch break

Lunch with student committees*

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13:30 – 14:30

Directing your profiles

15:00 – Late

Get-together with ownMaster's programme

13:00 – 18:00

City game

18:00 – Late

Drinks, Dinner, Party

13:30 – 16:00

Scientific Integrity II

The Lab – an ethics game

13:15 – 14:45

Going abroad

*Lunch provided by the GSLS

13:00 – 15:30

Valorisation & Industry

Registration & Lunch*

11:00 – 15:00

Museum SpeelklokSteenweg 6

Utrecht

9:00 – 15:30

Educatorium, Megaron,De Uithof

Leuvenlaan 19 Utrecht

15:00 – LateWill be announced

9:00 – 11:00 For foreign students only

Educatorium, Megaron,De Uithof

Leuvenlaan 19, UtrechtMor

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Aft

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9:45 – 16:00

Cinema Wolff CatharijneRadboudkwartier 19

Utrecht

9:00 – 12:45

Green & Pink Lecture Hall,UMC Utrecht

Universiteitsweg 98Utrecht

13:15 – 14:45

Cinema Wolff CatharijneRadboudkwartier 19

Utrecht

9:00 – 12:30

Educatorium, Theatron,De Uithof

Leuvenlaan 19 Utrecht

12:30 – 18:00

Utrecht City CentreWill be announced

18:00 – Late

Stairway to HeavenMariaplaats 11-12

Utrecht

Rooms for speed dateswill be announced

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of the Graduate School of Life Sciences

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Introducing Life Sciences 3

Dear Life Sciences student,

Welcome to Utrecht and the Graduate School of Life Sciences. The School

is responsible for all educational activities for Master’s and PhD students

within the field of Life Sciences. This is a broad field, with topics ranging

from microbes to plants and humans, from molecules to organisms, and

from individuals to populations. These topics are incorporated into the

14 Graduate School Master’s programmes. Each month you will meet your

fellow students during a Life Science Seminar on one of the programme

themes given by an internationally renowned scientist. These seminars are

followed by a happy hour, so that students working in different buildings

in the Utrecht Science Park – the Uithof – can meet each other socially.

The academic year opens with a week-long course ‘Introducing Life

Sciences’ for all Graduate School students, regardless of their study

programme. During this week, you will attend lectures given by top

speakers from science and industry on themes such as professional attitude,

scientific integrity, your future as a MSc, academic writing, ethics, the

concepts of valorisation and cooperation with industry, to name a few. One

afternoon is allocated to meet the staff and fellow students of your own

programme. The week ends with a mini-symposium on Friday morning

given by second-year honours Master’s students. The closing lecture on

Friday, will be by Prof Ineke Braakman, Chair of Cellular Protein Chemistry

and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of protein folding. In

the afternoon, there will be social activities in Utrecht, and in the evening

drinks, a meal and a party.

We hope that you will find ‘Introducing Life Sciences’ stimulating and

make use of the opportunity to get to know staff and fellow students, so

that you can immediately start to build your Life Sciences network.

I wish you an exciting week, starting in Utrecht’s beautiful ‘Museum

Speelklok’.

Prof Jos van Strijp

Chairman Executive Board of Studies

Graduate School of Life Sciences


communication

The information in this guide gives an overview of the lectures offered for

the course ‘Introducing Life Sciences’. This guide has been compiled with

the utmost care, but is for informational purposes only. No rights can be

derived from its contents.

Introducing Life Sciences is a compulsory course for all Life Sciences

Master’s students. Together with 10 Life Sciences seminars this course will

account for 1.5 EC.

Learning outcomes Introducing Life Sciences

After the course the student:

• is familiar with the organisation of the Graduate School of Life Sciences;

• iscapableofconsciouslychoosingbetweenalloptionsofferedbythe

Graduate School (projects, profiles, courses and electives);

• hasknowledgeaboutprofessionalattitude,scientificintegrityandthe

ethics of animal experiments;

• isfamiliarwiththeconceptsofvalorisationandcooperationwith

industry;

• hasamoredetailedviewonhisfutureasaMSc;

• isintroducedintotheprinciplesofacademicwriting(article,grant,

thesis, proposal and for the general public);

• isintroducedintotheUtrechtLifeSciencecommunity;

• hasmadeaflyingstartinbuildinghisLifeSciencesnetwork.

Learning outcomes Life Sciences Seminars

At the end of the 10 seminars the student:

• isacquaintedwithrecentscientificdevelopmentsinthefieldofLife

Sciences other than their own MSc Programme;

• has a broad, interdisciplinary scientific view on the field of Life Sciences;

• haslearnedpresentationskillsfromtopscientists;

• isabletowriteabstractsofseminars.


Programme


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09:00-10:00

Foreign students only International office UU

Registration and welcome package for foreign students only Educatorium

Megaron10:00-11:00 General orientation

session

11:00-12:30 regIStrAtIon And Lunch

12:30-12:40 Opening Prof Gerrit van MeerChair Board of Studies GSLS

Introduction

MuseumSpeelklok

12:40-13:00 Introduction to GSLS Prof Harold van RijenVice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS

13:00-13:30 Opening lecture Leon Knippels, PhDGroup Leader Immunology & Allergy, Danone Research


13:30-13:50 Drug regulatory sciences profile Marieke de Bruin, PhDResearcher Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

13:50-14:10 Communication profile Liesbeth de Bakker, MScLecturer Science Communication, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University

14:10-14:30 Management profile Prof Frank VerbeetenDirector Fundamentals in Business and Economics programme, Faculty Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University

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15:00 - late Get-together Get-together with own Master’s programme

Get-together Will be announced

Chair Gönül Dilaver, PhD Coordinator MSc programmes Biomedical Sciences


Subject SPeAker theMe LocAtIon

09:00-10:00

Foreign students only International office UU

Registration and welcome package for foreign students only Educatorium

Megaron10:00-11:00 General orientation

session

11:00-12:30 regIStrAtIon And Lunch

12:30-12:40 Opening Prof Gerrit van MeerChair Board of Studies GSLS

Introduction

MuseumSpeelklok

12:40-13:00 Introduction to GSLS Prof Harold van RijenVice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS

13:00-13:30 Opening lecture Leon Knippels, PhDGroup Leader Immunology & Allergy, Danone Research


13:30-13:50 Drug regulatory sciences profile Marieke de Bruin, PhDResearcher Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

13:50-14:10 Communication profile Liesbeth de Bakker, MScLecturer Science Communication, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University

14:10-14:30 Management profile Prof Frank VerbeetenDirector Fundamentals in Business and Economics programme, Faculty Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University

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15:00 - late Get-together Get-together with own Master’s programme

Get-together Will be announced

Chair Gönül Dilaver, PhD Coordinator MSc programmes Biomedical Sciences


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Monday starts with an introduction for the new foreign students only,

organised by the International Office of Utrecht University.

During the rest of this day the Graduate School of Life Sciences will be

introduced to you. After the registration and lunch, more information will

be given on three ‘profiles’. A profile can replace your minor research project

with theoretical courses and sometimes practical work in management,

science communication & education, or drug regulatory science. In the

afternoon you will have the opportunity to meet the students and staff from

your own Master’s programme.

ProF gerrIt vAn Meer

Prof Gerrit van Meer studied Biochemistry at Utrecht

University (UU) where he obtained his PhD on the

dynamics of lipid molecules in cellular membranes with

Laurens van Deenen in 1981. In the next 5 years he

developed the lipid raft hypothesis with Kai Simons at

EMBL Heidelberg: membrane lipids can segregate into

lateral domains of different composition. This forms the

physical basis for the sorting of lipid molecules to various

cellular organelles, which in turn has implications for

protein sorting and function. Gerrit continued in the Cell

Biology Department of the University Medical Center Utrecht, where this

group identified a lipid transport activity of multidrug transporters. These

transporters, which cause the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy,

turned out to belong to a protein family that exports lipids. After 10 years

he moved as a Full Professor to the Cell Biology Department at the

Academic Medical Center / University of Amsterdam, and again 5 years

later to the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science (UU). In the

Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Gerrit studied how cells use

the variety of lipids for their vital functions. Objects of study were lipid

flippases,lipidraftsandlipid-proteininteractions.

During his scientific career Gerrit wrote a number of reviews, organised

many conferences and courses, the last one this summer in Corsica, and

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taught students at all university levels. He has been elected member of

the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and of EMBO.

In 2010 Gerrit was Head of the UU Department of Chemistry and since

2011 he is Dean of the Faculty of Science. The Faculty of Science includes

the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, Mathematics,

Pharmaceutical Science and Physics. A couple of times per year you can

find Gerrit in Heidelberg, where he is the scientific delegate of The

Netherlands in the councils of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

and the European Molecular Biology Conference (the mother organisation

of EMBO), of which he is the President.

ProF hAroLd vAn rIjen

Harold van Rijen studied Biology at Utrecht University

(UU) and obtained his degree in 1992. He became a

PhD candidate at the Department of Physiology of

the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, studying

the biophysical properties of gap junction channels in

endothelial and smooth muscle cells in the vascular

wall. In 1998, he returned to Utrecht as a Postdoc at

the Department of Medical Physiology of the University

Medical Center (UMC), investigating abnormal electrical

properties of gap junction channels in the diseased heart.

In 2003, he became Assistant and in 2008 Associate Professor, dividing his

time between medical physiology education, leading a research group

on basic mechanisms of slow conduction related cardiac arrhythmias and

heading the mouse phenotyping lab of the division Heart and Lungs of

the University Medical Center Utrecht.

In 2006 he started with the implementation of several forms of e-learning

in his own courses, such as weblectures, microlectures, formative

assessments, e-modules and classroom response systems, and launched

the customised e-learning platform ‘Physiopedia.nl’. Furthermore, he

developed two cardiovascular course packs, entitled ‘Hart en Vaten’ and

‘Leef met je hart!’ in collaboration with The Netherlands Heart Foundation

and the Junior College Utrecht for the 2-year programme ‘Nature, Life &

Technology’, in secondary school (vwo & havo).

In 2012 he was appointed ‘Professor of Innovation in Biomedical Education’

and focused on the development of effective blended learning models


in the biomedical curricula. In 2012 he became Head of the strategic

Educational IT programme ‘Onbegrensd Leren’.

In June 2015, he was appointed as Director of the Master’s course of

Biomedical Sciences of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the UU and

UMC Utrecht.

Léon knIPPeLS, Phd

Léon Knippels studied Biology at Utrecht University. He

specialised in immunology and immunotoxicology and

finished his studies in 1993. During his PhD work at the

Department of Immunotoxicology at Utrecht University

and TNO Nutrition & Food Research Institute in Zeist,

he developed a Brown Norway rat model to study

sensitisation to food proteins and mechanisms associated

with immunological sensitisation and clinical reactions

in food allergy. He obtained his PhD degree at Utrecht

University in 1998. After a one year postdoc period,

working on the same topic, he became Senior Scientist / Study Director

and later product manager at TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute

in The Netherlands. There, he supervised research projects as well as

contract research for both Food and Pharma companies, in the field of

immunotoxicology, immunology with a specialisation in (food) allergy. In

September 2006 Léon Knippels joined Danone-Nutricia Research in The

Netherlands as a Senior Scientist within the Immunology Platform. Here,

he was responsible for several research projects in which food ingredients

are characterised for their immunomodulating properties, with a focus

on allergy. In November 2008 he became Group Leader Immunology

& Allergy and also has a part-time position as Associate Professor at

the Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences at Utrecht University.

Research within his team focuses on the immunomodulating properties

of food ingredients in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. He has been

supervising 10 PhD canidates and with these and other collaborators

published 70 peer reviewed papers, several book chapters and 10 patents

in the field of immunotoxicology and food allergy.

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MArIeke de bruIn, Phd

Marieke de Bruin is an Assistant Professor at the Division

of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical Pharmacology

at Utrecht University (UU). She was trained as a

pharmacist and epidemiologist. Her research focuses on

pharmacoepidemiology in the drug regulatory setting

and pharmacovigilance. The main clinical areas are

cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Marieke de Bruin is the Scientific Coordinator of

the CARING (Cancer Risk and INsulin analoGues)

consortium and PI on behalf of the two UU public

private Escher projects entitled: ‘Improving the EU system for marketing

authorization: Reviewing regulatory deficiencies and inefficiencies’ and

‘Pharmacovigilance of Biologics: Addressing the challenges of product

and batch traceability in ADR reporting’. She is the deputy team leader in

the European Commission funded ‘Study on the regulation of advanced

therapies in selected jurisdictions’.

As liaison officer Marieke de Bruin coordinates the research collaboration

between the Department of Pharmacovigilance of the Medicines

Evaluation Board and the division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Clinical

Pharmacology. She is a member of the steering group of the European

Network of Centers for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance

and a board member of The Netherlands Epidemiology Society. She was

appointed by the European Commission as an independent scientific

expert of the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, that meets

monthly at the European Medicines Agency in London.


LIeSbeth de bAkker, MSc

In October 2006 Liesbeth de Bakker started working

at the Freudenthal Institute (Utrecht University) as a

Lecturer in science communication. She mainly teaches

on Master level courses. Her main focus is on improving

writing and presentation skills, and supervising students

who follow her product development courses for the

science communication / informal science education field.

In addition, she also develops courses on Bachelor level

and teaches Bachelor’s programme students. Recently,

she developed a short crash course for PhD candidates on

science communication for the general public.

Before she started at Utrecht University, Liesbeth de Bakker studied

Biology at Leiden University and worked as a science journalist for

11 years at Radio Netherlands. In her job as a science journalist, she found

that many scientists like to talk about their research, yet very few are

really able to get the message across to a specific target audience. ‘It’s

wonderful that now, here at Utrecht University, I get the opportunity to

work with many enthusiastic scientists and students who really want to

improve their communication skills.’

ProF FrAnk verbeeten

Frank Verbeeten graduated with a Master of Science in

Business Economics (Tilburg University, 1993) and a Master

of Business Administration (University of South Carolina,

1993). From 1994 until 2002, he worked as a consultant

in financial management at Deloitte. During this period

he wrote his PhD dissertation, which he defended in 2001

at Tilburg University. In 2002, Frank started at Nyenrode

Business University; he transferred to Rotterdam Erasmus

University in 2004 and to the University of Amsterdam

in 2011.

Currently, Frank is a Professor of Accounting at the Utrecht University

School of Economics, and is also involved in the Executive Master in Finance

& Control at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. For Utrecht University, he

is the Programme Director of the Fundamentals in Business and Economics

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(FBE) programme. This is an intensive programme of 6 months, specifically

designed as an introduction to business and economics for students in Life

Sciences and Natural Sciences.

gönüL dILAver, Phd

Gönül Dilaver obtained her Master’s degree in Medical

Biology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 1999.

During her Master level training she stayed in the UK for

an internship at the research and development Department

of Glaxo Smith Kline. After her Master’s degree she worked

as a PhD candidate in the lab of Professor Wieringa at the

Department of Cell Biology of UMC Radboud in Nijmegen.

In 2005 she obtained her PhD degree for her thesis on

protein tyrosine phosphatases in cellular signalling and

trafficking. During her Master’s programme and PhD

study she developed a strong interest in the organisation of academic

education and became a member of the educational committee and the

board of the student’s association of Biology. She was also actively involved

in teaching students from Biomedical Sciences and Medicine. In 2005

she started working as a Programme Advisor of the Biomedical Sciences

degree at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Since 2007 she is the Degree

Coordinator of the Master’s programmes Biomedical Sciences (Graduate

School of Life Sciences) at Utrecht University.


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9:45-10:15 Practical educational matters Shirrinka Goubitz, PhD Coordinator Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

IntroductionCinema Wolff

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10:15-10:25 Academic counsellors Jaco de Fockert - Koefoed, MScAcademic Counsellor, UMC Utrecht

10:25-10:35 Life Sciences Representatives Chair Life Science Representatives (LSR)

10:35-10:45 Student’s associations Mebiose/UBV/Proton/UP

10:45-10:55 U/Select honours programme Rutger ter Horst, BScU/Select Student 2014

Lara Rösler, BSc U/Select Student 2014

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11:15-12:00 Animals in Science and Society Prof Frauke OhlChair Department of Animals in Science and Society, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Scientific Integrity

Cinema Wolff Catharijne

12:00-12:45 Be(coming)agoodprofessional:ethicalreflectionsonintegrity Mariette van den Hoven, PhD Lecturer Ethics Institute, Faculty Humanities, Utrecht University

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The Lab - an ethics gameBring your smartphone or laptop with Wi-Fi

Ghislaine van Thiel, PhDLecturer Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Julius Centre, UMC Utrecht

Scientific IntegrityCinema Wolff

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15:15-16:00 Fraud in Science Emeritus Prof Dop BärFormer Vice Chair of the Executive Board of Studies GSLS


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Chair Shirrinka Goubitz, PhD Coordinator of Life Sciences at the Faculty of Science



9:45-10:15 Practical educational matters Shirrinka Goubitz, PhD Coordinator Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

IntroductionCinema Wolff

Catharijne

10:15-10:25 Academic counsellors Jaco de Fockert - Koefoed, MScAcademic Counsellor, UMC Utrecht

10:25-10:35 Life Sciences Representatives Chair Life Science Representatives (LSR)

10:35-10:45 Student’s associations Mebiose/UBV/Proton/UP

10:45-10:55 U/Select honours programme Rutger ter Horst, BScU/Select Student 2014

Lara Rösler, BSc U/Select Student 2014

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11:15-12:00 Animals in Science and Society Prof Frauke OhlChair Department of Animals in Science and Society, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Scientific Integrity

Cinema Wolff Catharijne

12:00-12:45 Be(coming)agoodprofessional:ethicalreflectionsonintegrity Mariette van den Hoven, PhD Lecturer Ethics Institute, Faculty Humanities, Utrecht University

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The Lab - an ethics gameBring your smartphone or laptop with Wi-Fi

Ghislaine van Thiel, PhDLecturer Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Julius Centre, UMC Utrecht


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15:15-16:00 Fraud in Science Emeritus Prof Dop BärFormer Vice Chair of the Executive Board of Studies GSLS


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Chair Shirrinka Goubitz, PhD Coordinator of Life Sciences at the Faculty of Science


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In the morning practical educational matters within the GSLS such as

procedures and forms will be explained. People and committees which are

important during your Master’s programme will introduce themselves.

The theme ‘scientific integrity’ will be covered in the afternoon. Important

aspects such as fraud and ethics in science, professional attitude in science

and –more close to home- fraud in your Master’s programme will be

covered. In the first part results of the survey you have filled in on Monday

will be discussed. The other part of the afternoon will be an interactive ethics

game (‘The Lab’), so please bring your smartphone or laptop with Wi-Fi.

ShIrrInkA goubItz, Phd

Shirrinka Goubitz studied Biology at Utrecht University

(1990-1996), with a focus on tropical ecology and

sustainable development. She participated in international

projects in the Amazone as well as in the East Asian

region. In this period she was active in the Biology

student’s association UBV in several committees and as a

mentor for first year students. In the period 1997-2001 she

did her PhD research at the Department of Plant Ecology

at Utrecht University in cooperation with the Hebrew

University and the University of Haifa in Israel. During her

PhD she developed a broad interest in the educational organisation at

different universities. In 2001 she was appointed as Education Developer

at the Faculty of Biology and safeguarded the development of the

Biology Master’s programmes. Since 2007 she is the Policy Advisor and

Degree Coordinator of the Life Sciences programmes at the Faculty of

Science, Utrecht University.

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jAco de Fockert-koeFoed, MSc

Jaco de Fockert-Koefoed studied Biology at the VU

University in Amsterdam from 1989 and received his

Master’s degree in 1995. From 1996 until 1999 he was a

PhD candidate in Developmental Biology at the Hubrecht

Institute in Utrecht.

In 1999 he started his career as an Academic Counsellor

at the Faculty of Medicine of the VU University. Soon

after that he was appointed by the Faculty of Medicine

of Utrecht University as an academic counsellor for both

the medical course and the programmes in Biomedical /

Life Sciences. With his two colleagues he is responsible for coaching over

3000 students involved in these programmes.

rutger ter horSt, bSc

Rutger ter Horst is about to finish his Master’s programme

Cancer, Stem Cells & Developmental Biology (CS&D).

He started with the Bachelor’s programme Biomedical

Sciences at Utrecht University, with particular interest in

cancer and genome biology. In September 2013 he started

his Master’s programme and mainly focused on cancer

and stem cell research. He first rotated in the lab of Edwin

Cuppen at the Hubrecht Institute on genomic integrity

in organoid cultures. After this, he went to the United

States for his minor research project. There he studied

molecular mechanisms in malignant mesothelioma in the lab of Fernando

Camargo at Harvard Medical School. As one of the selected students

from the Graduate School of Life Sciences he participated in the U/Select

programme to optimally prepare for his research internship abroad.


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Lara is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme

Neuroscience and Cognition and is majoring in the

Cognitive Neuroscience track. Before starting her

Master’s programme, she obtained her Bachelor’s

degree in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience at

University College Utrecht. She is particularly interested

in what constitutes a conscious mind and how these

neural mechanisms are impaired in psychiatric disorders.

Consequently,shedecidedtoinvestigateagency

dysfunction in schizophrenia patients using a combination

of eye tracking and magnetic resonance spectroscopy during her first

major research project in the STARlab of Bas Neggers at the University

Medical Center Utrecht. She spent her second research internship at

the University Hospital in Frankfurt examining attention and working

memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia in collaboration with the

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. The U/Select honours programme,

of which Lara is a candidate, helped her gain insight into various aspects

of a Life Sciences career.

ProF FrAuke ohL

Having been trained as a zoologist in Kiel (Germany),

Professor Ohl worked at different high-ranking research

institutes, such as the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry

(Munich, Germany) and the German Primate Centre

(Goettingen, Germany) before she came to Utrecht in 2004.

Her central research interest is to understand how

varying cognitive-emotional processes result in adaptive

strategies of individuals with their environment. To this

aim, she has integrated classical ethological approaches

with neurobehavioural methods in different animal

species, resulting in complex behavioural phenotyping approaches and

differential cognitive testing. In continuation and extension of her

earlier work, Professor Ohl has been coordinating a research programme

at the Veterinary Faculty that focusses on bridging the gap between

fundamental behavioural neuroscience and applied (veterinary) animal


welfare science by translating the animals’ own perception of its

emotional state into a biologically grounded concept of animal welfare.

Everyconsiderationonanimalwelfarehoweverisinfluencedbythe

moral or ethical standards of society and any scientific objectivity in

analysis cedes inevitably to the subjectivity of ethical assessment when

determining whether a welfare status is or is not ‘acceptable’ to society.

Thus the ‘translation’ of welfare assessments into management practice,

and the way in which that management practice is viewed are both

affected markedly by public understanding and attitudes. In order

to deliver solutions to perceived welfare issues, her research group is

working together with the Ethics Institute Utrecht in order to generate

societally accepted and, thus, sustainable approaches to animal welfare

management.

MArIëtte vAn den hoven, Phd

Mariëtte van den Hoven works as a Senior Lecturer at

the Ethics Institute, part of the Faculty of Humanities

at Utrecht University. She studied Theology, with a

specialisation in ethics at Utrecht University (1991-1996),

and defended her PhD thesis on common sense morality

in 2006. She coordinated projects on prevention of child

obesity (2008-2011), moral intuitions of professionals

regarding signaling child abuse (2010-2012), professional

ethics in youth care (2012-2014), and now on moral

development (Young Innovators).

Her research and teaching focuses on professional ethics and public health

ethics, covering issues like ‘should all health professionals be immunised

againsttheflu’,‘howandwhyisprofessionalintegrityimportant’and‘are

nudging strategies interfering with individual autonomy’?


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Ghislaine van Thiel obtained a Master’s degree of Health

Sciences at Maastricht University in 1993. She specialised in

Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Science. Currently she is

Assistant Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences

and Primary Care of the University Medical Center (UMC)

Utrecht. Her main research topics are research ethics and

end-of life decision making. Ghislaine is a member of the

Institutional Review Board at UMC Utrecht and teaches

medical ethics at the Faculty of Medicine.

eM ProF doP bär

Emeritus Prof Dop Bär received his degree cum laude

in Biochemistry / Neuroscience at Utrecht University in

1976, did military service (1976-77), and was asked as a

PhD candidate in the Rudolf Magnus Institute (1977).

His thesis was on the neurochemistry of interneuronal

communication (1982). He set up a research laboratory

in the Department of Neurology, Academic Hospital

Utrecht. Research was aimed at muscular damage in

health and disease, at the action of neuropeptides,

and at neurodegenerative diseases such as stroke and

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He started ALS research in vitro, with

cultured motor neurons and spinal cord slices. In 1996 he was appointed

Professor in Experimental Neurology.

Between 1986 and 2002 he supervised 18 PhD candidates. He published

over 160 refereed articles. He has acted as referee for many international

journals and research societies, was actively involved in setting up the

Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, has led several audits for

biomedical courses at Belgian and Dutch universities, and was active in

organising (inter)national neuroscience schools and meetings.

In 2002, he was asked to start up the Master’s course Biomedical Sciences

(BMS) when the Bachelor-Master structure was introduced in The

Netherlands. Since then he was Director of the Master’s course Biomedical

Sciences at Utrecht University / University Medical Center Utrecht. He

was involved in setting up the Graduate School of Life Sciences, as


(Vice) Chair of the Executive Board of Studies. In June 2015 he handed

over the directorship BMS to Professor Harold van Rijen. Prof Bär is

honorary member of the Utrecht Biomedical Students Society (Mebiose),

honorary president of the Utrecht University Faculty Club, member of

the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen, and was

knighted in 2011 as Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.


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Alumni speed dates Alumni AlumniWill be

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11:15 - 12:45 ALuMnI InForMAtIon MArket And Lunch Information market and lunch uMc utrecht Foyer laag 0

13:15-13:45 Going abroad: does it make a difference? Jos Malda, PhDDeputy Head of Orthopaedic Research, UMC Utrecht

Going abroadCinema Wolff

Catharijne

13:45-14:15 Should I stay or should I go? Madelon Maurice, PhD Head of Training, Department of Cell Biology, UMC Utrecht

14:15-14:30 Student experience Martin van Oosterhout, BSc Student Environmental Biology

14:30-14:45 Student experience Sweden Nienke Verzaal, BSc Student Biology of Disease

Chair Prof Harold van Rijen Vice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS



09:00-09:45 My career Prof Jeroen den Hertog Group Leader Molecular Developmental Zoology, Hubrecht Institute

AlumniUMC Utrecht Green & Pink Lecture Hall

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Alumni speed dates Alumni AlumniWill be

announced on Tuesday

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11:15 - 12:45 ALuMnI InForMAtIon MArket And Lunch Information market and lunch uMc utrecht Foyer laag 0

13:15-13:45 Going abroad: does it make a difference? Jos Malda, PhDDeputy Head of Orthopaedic Research, UMC Utrecht

Going abroadCinema Wolff

Catharijne

13:45-14:15 Should I stay or should I go? Madelon Maurice, PhD Head of Training, Department of Cell Biology, UMC Utrecht

14:15-14:30 Student experience Martin van Oosterhout, BSc Student Environmental Biology

14:30-14:45 Student experience Sweden Nienke Verzaal, BSc Student Biology of Disease

Chair Prof Harold van Rijen Vice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS


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To pursue a successful career in the Life Sciences it is important to make the

right decisions. We have invited several successful alumni of the GSLS to

talk about their career choices. After a plenary talk there are short parallel

sessions in small groups (‘speed dates’). During these you will meet alumni

- PhD candidates, postdocs, professors, lecturers, policy and communication

advisors - that have graduated from a Life Sciences Master’s or PhD

programme. The alumni talk about what they had to do to get to where they

are now, how their education corresponds with corporate life, what they do

on a day to day basis and so on. Afterwards you can meet alumni that were

not in your session at the alumni information market during lunch.

The GSLS stimulates its students to do their short internship outside Utrecht.

Two associate professors will provide important information and will talk

about the added value of going abroad. Moreover, Master’s students who

went abroad for their internship will tell you about their international

experience.

ProF jeroen den hertog

Jeroen den Hertog studied Chemistry at Utrecht University

(1983-1988). He received his PhD degree from Utrecht

University in 1992, based on work done at the Hubrecht

Institute, supervised by Wiebe Kruijer and Siegfried

de Laat. He was awarded a fellowship from the Dutch

Cancer Society (Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds) and did a

postdoctoral with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute, La

Jolla, CA, USA from 1992-1994. In 1994 he became project

leader at the Hubrecht Institute and in 1997 group leader.

While maintaining his position as a group leader, he was appointed deputy

director Research at the Hubrecht Institute and Professor of Molecular

Developmental Zoology at the University of Leiden in 2008. He has received

several grants from the Dutch Cancer Society (Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds),

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The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO / ALW), The

Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw)

and The Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC). He was involved in several

European Research Training Networks (FP5, FP6 and FP7).

joS MALdA, Phd

Associate Professor Jos Malda is Head of Research at the

Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Centre

(UMC) Utrecht and has a position at the Department of

EquineSciences,UtrechtUniversity(UU).Healsoleads

the Utrecht Biofabrication Facility. He is a long-standing

board member of the International Cartilage Repair

Society and president of the International Society for

Biofabrication. He also is a member of the UMC Utrecht

Internationalisation Committee.

Jos Malda received his Master’s degree in Bioprocess Engineering from

Wageningen University in 1999 and completed his PhD degree on

Cartilage Tissue Engineering in 2003 (University of Twente and IsoTis

bv).HesubsequentlyacceptedaresearchfellowshipattheInstituteof

Health and Biomedical Innovation (Queensland University of Technology,

Brisbane, Australia), where he still holds an adjunct position. In 2007, Jos

Malda was awarded a NWO VENI fellowship that allowed him to establish

his research group in Utrecht, which focuses on biofabrication and

biomaterials design, in particular for the regeneration of (osteo)chondral

defects. He has published over 75 articles in peer reviewed international

journals. He has attracted over 4,5 million Euro in research funding and

acts as coordinator of PrintCart and BIOFAB, and as steering committee

member of SkelGen and HydroZONES. Also, he was recently awarded an

ERC Consolidator grant.


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Madelon Maurice graduated in Medical Biology from

the VU University, Amsterdam in 1993. She earned her

PhD degree in 1998 at the Department of Rheumatology,

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) on the subject

‘Studies on T cell function in rheumatoid arthritis’. In 1997,

she received a EULAR award for her PhD research at the

European Workshop for Rheumatology Research.

From 1998 to 2001, she was employed as a Postdoctoral

Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, in the

lab of Prof Hidde Ploegh, supported by a HFSP and a JDF fellowship. The

researchtopicwas‘Themolecularrequirementsofpositiveselectionof

CD8+ T cells in the thymus’. Her work unexpectedly revealed that MHC

class Ib products play a key role in the migration of thymus-derived T cells

to distant epithelia early in development.

In 2001 she moved back to The Netherlands to work as a Senior Postdoc

in the laboratory of Professor Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute

in Utrecht, supported by a ZonMw fellowship. Here, she initiated two

independentresearchlines:‘Thebiologicalroleofthede-ubiquitinating

enzymeUSP7’and‘ThemechanismsbywhichubiquitincontrolsWnt/β-

catenin signaling’.

In 2006, she became Assistant Professor and in 2012 Associate Professor at

the Department of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht, where

she is leading her independent research group. The focus of her work is

on the molecular mechanisms by which cells interpret Wnt signals received

at their cell surface and how dysregulation of these events by mutations

leads to cancer. The innovative nature of her work was awarded by an ERC

Starting Grant in 2009. Recent highlights include the identification of the

E3ubiquitinligaseRNF43asanoveltumoursuppressorthatinhibitsWnt

signalinginintestinalstemcells(Nature,2012).Thisworkplacesubiquitin-

mediated downregulation of Frizzled receptors central to the mechanisms

of growth restriction of the stem cell zone.


MArtIn vAn ooSterhout, bSc

Martin van Oosterhout is a second year Master’s student

of the Master’s programme Environmental Biology, track

Ecology & Natural Resource Management. After obtaining

his Bachelor’s degree Biology in 2014, he performed his

minor research project at the Ecology and Biodiversity

group under the supervision of dr.ir. M.M. Hefting and

dr. J.M. Sarneel (Utrecht University). During his minor

research project, he got the opportunity to do field work

at in collaboration with Umeå University in Sweden. He

investigatedtheeffectsofchangedfloodingregimeson

vegetationturnoverinafreeflowingriverinnorthofSweden.Duringhis

studies, he also worked as teaching assistant at Utrecht University and as

main teacher at Lyceo (tutoring of high school students).

nIenke verzAAL, bSc

Nienke Verzaal is currently completing the Master’s

programme Biology of Disease. After obtaining a

Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Sciences in Utrecht in

2013, she performed her major research project at the

Department of Experimental Cardiology at University

Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht. Here she studied the role of

EDA-fibronectin in adverse cardiac remodelling in a mouse

model.Shesubsequentlywroteherliteraturereviewatthe

laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology at UMC

Utrecht on the role of CD40L signalling in platelets during

autoimmune diseases. Her minor research project brought her to the

Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where she studied the role of the NLRP3

inflammasomeinatherosclerosis.DuringhertimeasaneditoratTight

Junction magazine, she developed a passion for scientific writing, which is

the reason she chose the Communication and Education profile.


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Subject Speaker theme Location

09:00-09:45 How to write an article Prof Rick GrobbeeDirector Center for Circulatory Health, UMC Utrecht

Career developmentMegaron

Educatorium09:45-10:30 How to write a grant proposal Prof Corné PieterseDirector Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

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11:00-11:45 Your MSc writing assignment Elma Zijderveld, MSc Trainer Writing and Skills Centre, University College Utrecht

Academic WritingMegaron

Educatorium11:45-12:30 Selling science to the public Rinze Benedictus, MScScience Writer Communications Department, UMC Utrecht

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13:00-13:45 Life Sciences at Unilever Graham Cross, PhDDirector Commercial Alliances and Supplier Innovation, Unilever

Valorisation &

Industry

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14:15-14:30 Utrecht Life Scienses: Education, Research & Entrepeneurship Freek van Muiswinkel, PhDManaging Director Utrecht Life Sciences

Valorisation &

Industry

Megaron Educatorium

14:30-15:30 Entrepreneurial pathways for a Life Scientist Marcellien BreedveldStartup Accelerator, UtrechtInc

Chair (morning) Prof Gerard Barkema Vice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS

Chair (afternoon) Freek van Muiswinkel, PhD Managing Director Utrecht Life Sciences



09:00-09:45 How to write an article Prof Rick GrobbeeDirector Center for Circulatory Health, UMC Utrecht

Career developmentMegaron

Educatorium09:45-10:30 How to write a grant proposal Prof Corné PieterseDirector Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University

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11:00-11:45 Your MSc writing assignment Elma Zijderveld, MSc Trainer Writing and Skills Centre, University College Utrecht

Academic WritingMegaron

Educatorium11:45-12:30 Selling science to the public Rinze Benedictus, MScScience Writer Communications Department, UMC Utrecht

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13:00-13:45 Life Sciences at Unilever Graham Cross, PhDDirector Commercial Alliances and Supplier Innovation, Unilever

Valorisation &

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Megaron Educatorium

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14:15-14:30 Utrecht Life Scienses: Education, Research & Entrepeneurship Freek van Muiswinkel, PhDManaging Director Utrecht Life Sciences

Valorisation &

Industry

Megaron Educatorium

14:30-15:30 Entrepreneurial pathways for a Life Scientist Marcellien BreedveldStartup Accelerator, UtrechtInc

Chair (morning) Prof Gerard Barkema Vice Chair Executive Board of Studies GSLS

Chair (afternoon) Freek van Muiswinkel, PhD Managing Director Utrecht Life Sciences


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Thursday morning the focus is on career development and academic writing.

Throughout your scientific career writing up your results and later, writing

up your ideas – as grant proposals or explaining your scientific results to the

general public- will play an important role.

Nowadays it is becoming more and more important to develop strategic

partnerships between academic, public and commercial players within

research and development. The theme of this afternoon will therefore be

Valorisation & Industry.

ProF rIck grobbee

Diederick (Rick) E. Grobbee is a Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology at the University Medical Center

(UMC) Utrecht and Chief Scientific Officer at Julius

Clinical, an academic contract research organisation. In

addition he is the Director of the Center for Circulatory

Health at the UMC Utrecht. He was elected fellow

of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, and held

the Chair of its Medical Advisory Committee and

Medical Section. Rick Grobbee has been a (principal)

investigator in many large-scale epidemiologic studies

and randomised intervention trials relating to the prevention and

treatment of cardiovascular disease. His experience covers the full range

of study designs including trials, cohorts and case-control studies. He

islistedinthetop100globalmostinfluentialbiomedicalresearchers

(Eur J Clin Invest 2013 Dec;43(12):1339-65). Rick Grobbee has been on

the editorial boards of several journals and (inter)national scientific,

search, and site visit committees. Current journal roles include Senior

Consulting Editor of the European Heart Journal and Editor-in-chief

of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. He is President-

elect of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and

Rehabilitation. To date, Prof Grobbee has authored or co-authored over

1,100 scientific papers, chapters, and books, and has supervised more

than 135 PhD candidates. His Hirsch index is 122. Rick Grobbee received

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a MD at Utrecht University and, after a residency in Internal Medicine,

obtained a PhD in Epidemiology at Erasmus University. In 1989 he was

a visiting Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public

Health. He was appointed Full Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at

ErasmusUniversityin1993.SubsequentlyhemovedtotheUMCUtrecht

where he founded the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary

Care in 1996, which currently is one of the most productive clinical

epidemiology groups in Europe with over 500 staff and fellows. Julius

Clinical was established as a spin-off academic research organisation in

2008 and runs investigator-initiated and pharma-sponsored clinical trials

in more than 30 countries involving over 120.000 patients. Rick Grobbee

holds honorary appointments at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, and the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2010 he was

appointed distinguished University Professor of International Health

Sciences and Global Health at Utrecht University. In 2012 he initiated

Elevate, a platform for accredited e-learning in international health

sciences.

ProF corné PIeterSe

Corné Pieterse (1964) is Professor of Plant-Microbe

Interactions and Scientific Director of the Institute of

Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Science. His

research group investigates how the plant immune system

protects plants against microbial pathogens and insect

herbivores, and how beneficial microbes in the plant root

microbiome stimulate plant growth and health. With his

research he aims to contribute to grand societal challenges,

such as food security and sustainable agriculture.

Corné Pieterse studied Plant Breeding and Plant Molecular Biology at

the Wageningen University where he graduated cum laude in 1988.

He performed his PhD research in Wageningen on the molecular basis

of pathogenicity of the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora

infestans. This devastating pathogen caused the Irish Potato Famine in

the 19th century, which resulted in 1 million deaths and another million

people to emigrate from Ireland to North America. In 1993, Corné

Pieterse obtained his PhD after which he moved to Utrecht University.


First as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and between 1998 and 2004 as an Assistant

Professor in Molecular Phytopathology at the Department of Biology.

In 2004 he was awarded a NWO-VICI fellowship for innovative research,

after which he was appointed as Full Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions.

In 2010, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator grant by the

European Research Council, and in 2013 he was elected as a member of

the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Besides

heading the Plant-Microbe Interactions group at the Department

of Biology, Corné Pieterse is Scientific Director of the Institute of

Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Science. He is also active in the

Graduate School of Life Sciences as member of the Executive Board of the

Board of Studies and until September 2015 as Programme Leader of the

Master’s and PhD programmes Environmental Biology.

eLMA zIjderveLd, MA

Fascinated as she was by language, (hi)stories and

psychology, Elma Zijderveld found her way to the

Department of Language and Culture Studies at Utrecht

University. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree she took

a gap year to work on a cross border NGO in the north

of Greece where she learned how to write outstanding

grant proposals to secure the funding of her projects. She

returned to Utrecht University to explore the interplay

between media, culture and society, and combined her

studies with a position as a teaching assistant and self-

employed text editor. In 2009 she obtained her MA degree (cum laude)

in Television Studies. Elma Zijderveld is currently working as a Lecturer of

academic skills and higher education Trainer / Advisor with the Centre for

Teaching and Learning. As a Trainer in research and writing skills her main

focus is on what students need in order to successfully conduct something

as complex as a research project. How to plan and execute a project

investigating the topic of your interest? What do you need to translate

what you did and what your findings are to an effective piece of writing?

There is no single recipe for success, but there are essential ingredients to

the practice of academic writing!

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rInze benedIctuS, MSc

Rinze Benedictus, MSc (1977) is interested in the interaction

between science and society as shaped by communication

and policy. He studied Biology / Biomedical Sciences at

Utrecht University. After graduating in 2000 he started

a writing career. He became a science journalist at the

biology magazine Bionieuws and worked as a freelance

Science writer in the Life Sciences. In 2007 Benedictus

moved to the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht

to become a Science Writer at the Communications

Department. There he translated research findings into

press releases and popular science stories. Since 2013 he works as a Policy

Advisor for the Science in Transition initiative and the UMC Utrecht

Research Office. Science in Transition added greatly to a nationwide debate

aboutscientificquality.

grAhAM croSS, Phd

Graham Cross did his BSc and PhD Chemistry at Imperial

College London, and his postdoc in The Netherlands. He

joined Unilever in 1988 working across the full continuum

of R&D and Project leadership. Graham co-designed

current Unilever stage gate driving innovation process

excellence; as Senior Technical Project Leader reported to

Marketing, R&D and Supply Chain delivering innovations

to market success. Now he is Director of Commercial

Alliances, deal architect and relationship manager for

a portfolio of global innovation alliances across the full

Unilever portfolio.


Freek vAn MuISWInkeL, Phd

Freek van Muiswinkel is managing director of ‘Utrecht

Life Sciences’, an open innovation network that facilitates

partnerships in education, research and entrepreneurship

between academia, public institutions and private

organisations in order to drive innovations in human

and veterinary health care. He graduated as a medical

biologist at Utrecht University and defended his PhD thesis

on neuronal transplantation in Parkinson’s disease at the

VUmc in Amsterdam in 1994.

After pursuing a career in science, in 2006 he became Senior Advisor

Research and Strategy for the Academic Biomedical Center Utrecht and

served as Staff Member ‘Innovation and Valorisation’ for the executive

board of the University Medical Center Utrecht thereafter. In 2011, he

joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University to become

Deputy Director Research. In this role he also serves as the Managing

Director of ‘Utrecht Life Sciences’ and as Cluster Manager ‘Life Sciences’

for the Economic Board Utrecht.

MArceLLIen breedveLd, MSc

After graduating as Industrial and Management Science

Engineer from Eindhoven University, Marcellien has

worked with hundreds of start-up entrepreneurs in

various countries. In Ghana she had her own joint venture

goal with a local vegetable oil producer. Since 4 years,

she works at UtrechtInc, the business incubator of

Utrecht Science Park, as Startup Accelerator, responsible

for developing and organising the mentor and training

programmes for innovative start-up entrepreneurs. She

was trained by Steve Blank in Silicon Valley on Lean

Startup.Herspecialitiesareenthusiasm,positivecriticism,flexibility,

presentation, and coaching skills.

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WANDA STEVENS, MSC

Wanda Stevens has been with Philips for over 10 years and has been Director Alliances Personal Health at the Philips Strategic Alliance team for a few years now. She is responsible for supporting the Personal Health business groups to define the Alliance Strategy, define and develop Alliances and Partnerships and manage Alliances.

Before joining the Strategic Alliance team, she held several marketing positions within different business units in Philips Personal Health. Her product marketing experience with businesses like Coffee, Beverages, Mother and Child care, and Air purification has been essential in the position of Alliance Director.

She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft Technical University in The Netherlands.

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9:00-10:00 Students’ presentations U/Select students 2014Mini-symposium U/Select

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10:30-11:30 Students’ presentations U/Select students 2014 Mini-symposium U/Select

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11:30-12:15 From protein (mis)folding to disease Prof Ineke BraakmanChair Cellular Protein Chemistry, Utrecht University

Keynote lecture

12:15-12:30 Award ceremony U/Select 2014 Prof Chantal KemnerChair U/Select Jury 2014

Mini symposium U/Select

Afternoon Lunch and City Game Student committee ILS Social activitiesUtrecht City

Centre

18:00-Late Drinks, Dinner and Party Social activities

Stairway to Heaven

Chair Prof Peter Burbach Coordinator U/Select honours programme



9:00-10:00 Students’ presentations U/Select students 2014Mini-symposium U/Select

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10:30-11:30 Students’ presentations U/Select students 2014 Mini-symposium U/Select

EducatoriumTheatron

11:30-12:15 From protein (mis)folding to disease Prof Ineke BraakmanChair Cellular Protein Chemistry, Utrecht University

Keynote lecture

12:15-12:30 Award ceremony U/Select 2014 Prof Chantal KemnerChair U/Select Jury 2014

Mini symposium U/Select

Afternoon Lunch and City Game Student committee ILS Social activitiesUtrecht City

Centre

18:00-Late Drinks, Dinner and Party Social activities

Stairway to Heaven

Chair Prof Peter Burbach Coordinator U/Select honours programme


FrIdAy

Friday starts with the U/Select mini-symposium, the extracurricular honours

programme of the Graduate School of Life Sciences. The U/Select students

have written a research proposal for a PhD project and they will defend this

research proposal in front of a jury of top scientists:

Prof C. Kemner (Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Chair of the

jury), Prof M. van den Berg (Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht

University), Prof E. Cuppen (Department of Medical Genetics, UMC Utrecht),

Prof M.H.P. Kole (Department of Cell Biology, Utrecht University) and

Prof G.J.P.H. Boons (Department Molecular Pharmacy, Utrecht University).

The coordinator of U/Select, Prof J.P.H. Burbach, will chair this session.

After the mini-symposium, we will listen to the keynote lecture from

Prof Ineke Braakman, Chair of Cellular Protein Chemistry at Utrecht

University. Prof Braakman is one of the world’s leading researchers in the

field of protein folding.

After this lecture, the jury of the mini-symposium of U/Select will award the

prize for the best research proposal.

After lunch, provided by the GSLS, a social programme is organised by the

student committee. Be prepared for a joyful ‘City Game’, followed by drinks,

dinner and a party.

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ProF Ineke brAAkMAn

Since 2000 Ineke Braakman has been Chair of Cellular

Protein Chemistry at Utrecht University (UU). Her research

aims to uncover mechanisms, maintenance and regulation of

protein (mis)folding, with a focus on the secretory pathway,

stress responses and impact on disease, such as cystic fibrosis,

familial hypercholesterolemia and viral infections.

After a PhD at Groningen University, she moved with

a postdoctoral fellowship to the lab of Ari Helenius,

Dept. Cell Biology at Yale University. In 1993 she started

her independent research group in the Academic Medical Center in

Amsterdam on a 5-year fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy

of Arts and Sciences, from 1996 as Associate Professor until her move

to Utrecht University as Full Professor. A recent evaluation from Quality

Assurance Netherlands Universities states that Ineke Braakman: “… made

major contributions towards central issues in the area of protein folding

in the ER … and the identification of the ER origin of peroxisomes … … is

one of the world leading researchers in the field of protein folding with a

very high international reputation”.

Ineke Braakman is EMBO member, (co)organiser of more than10 inter-

national conferences, was Chair of the Board of the Graduate School of

Life Sciences, member of the College voor Promoties, Vice Chair of the

Board of Chemical Sciences at NWO, was co-author of the 2013 vision

paper ‘Chemistry & Physics: Fundamental for our Future’, and is member of

several national evaluation committees and the UU committee on scientific

integrity. She has given >200 invited seminars, has functioned on a wealth

of Professorship appointment committees, meeting planning committees,

(inter)national evaluation panels and advisory boards of international

institutes, advisory panels for drug companies, disease-related charities,

major scientific journals and in >100 thesis evaluation committees, including

7 international ones. She has directly supervised 17 students to their PhD,

with 9 more to finish within the next 3 years, and countless students in

MSc and BSc research projects. She has taught undergraduate students in

Medicine, Chemistry, (Medical) Biology and Pharmacy, was among the first

to include electronic tutorials in her teaching and has served on committees

to develop and innovate teaching at each of the universities she worked at.

Photo made by Ivar Pel


ProF Peter burbAch

Peter Burbach (1954) studied Chemistry and obtained his

PhD degree with Ronald de Kloet and David de Wied at

the Rudolf Magnus Institute, Utrecht University, in 1980.

HedidPostdoctoralresearchwithJacquesDrouinatthe

Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (Canada) where

he trained in Molecular Biology. He returned to the

Rudolf Magnus Institute in 1982, and was appointed as

Full Professor in the Molecular Biology of Neuropeptide

Systems (1993), in Molecular Neuroendocrinology (1997)

and in Molecular Neuroscience (2001). He is heading

the Department of Translational Neuroscience of the Rudolf Magnus

Brain Center, UMC Utrecht. Since 2001, he is also summer scientist at the

Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA. His present research

area is brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically

autism.Keyquestionsinhisresearchconcernthepathogenesiscausedby

mutations in contactins, a specific class of autism genes. He has started his

research in the field of biosynthesis of neuropeptides, and developed his

interest via the regulation of neuropeptide genes, to transcription factors

and brain development. He worked on the developmental mechanisms of

dopamine neurons, and in recent years his research concerns the role of

disease genes in neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism. His

work covers 300 publications amongst which in Nature, Science, Nature

Neuroscience, Neuron, J. Neuroscience, and PNAS.


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Bus stop: Utrecht Central Station (bus 12

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Museum Speelklok, Steenweg 6

10 min walk from Utrecht Central Station

Bus stop: Utrecht Domplein (bus 2

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Stairway to heaven, Mariaplaats 11-12

5 min walk from Utrecht Central Station

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educatorium, Leuvenlaan 19

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For all buildings Bus stop: Heidelberglaan (bus 12 or bus 28 towards De Uithof)

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Bus stop: Utrecht Central Station (bus 12 towards Utrecht Central Station and bus 28

towards Vleuterweide)

Museum Speelklok, Steenweg 6, 10 min walk from Utrecht Central Station

Bus stop: Utrecht Domplein (bus 2 ringlijn Museumkwartier)

Stairway to heaven, Mariaplaats 11-12, 5 min walk from Utrecht Central Station


Course coordinator: Gönül Dilaver, PhD

Email: [email protected]

Websites: www.gsls-uu.nl

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Editorial staff: Utrecht University, Graduate School of Life Sciences

Editors: Christine Tjong, MSc, Els van der Vlist, PhD

Edition: Third edition July 2015

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