PhD defense Apfrida Kendek
On Thursday 28th of May, Apfrida Kendek (Janssen lab) will defend her PhD thesis entitled: ‘Breaking silence: Investigating DNA double-strand break repair in silenced chromatin ’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Ronja Houtekamer
On Wednesday February 25th Ronja Houtekamer (Gloerich lab) will defend her thesis entitled: ‘More than a gut feeling: mechanical control of epithelial homeostasis’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Lars Kemp
On Tuesday February 10th, Lars Kemp (Gloerich lab) will defend his thesis entitled: ‘Out of touch: Signaling by cell adhesions in diffuse-type gastric cancer’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Joanna Wolthuis
On Wednesday January 21st Joanna Wolthuis (de Ridder/van Mil labs) will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘Exploring the gut/blood metabolome across species and countries’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Matthijs Baars
On Tuesday January 6th, Matthijs Baars (Vercoulen lab) will defend his thesis entitled: "Cellular cartography: characterizing tissue immune landscapes in IBD and cancer" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Marieke Wensveen
On Thursday December 11th Marieke Wensveen (Janssen lab) will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘Heterochromatin dynamics in DNA repair and aging’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Marit van Bueren
On Tuesday November 18th, Marit van Bueren (Janssen lab) will defend her thesis entitled: ‘Silenced, but not silent: how heterochromatin promotes its maintenance and stability’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Emmy Wesdorp
On Thursday October 20th, Emmy Wesdorp (de Ridder lab) will defend her thesis entitled “Detection of Pathogens through Liquid Biopsy Shotgun Sequencing”, at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Alexandra Danyi
Alexandra Danyi (de Ridder lab) will defend her thesis 'Unlocking patterns in limited omics data’ on September 2nd at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Mirjam van der Net
On Tuesday the 26th of August at 12.15 Mirjam van der Net (Gloerich lab) will defend her thesis entitled ‘Mechanobiology in healthy epithelia and cancer’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Jan van der Beek
On Wednesday July 9th at 12.00 Jan van der Beek (Klumperman group) will defend his thesis entitled ‘The endo-lysosomal system and its organization by tethers’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Stephanie van Dam
On Tuesday May 13th Stephanie van Dam (Vercoulen lab) will defend her thesis entitled “Issue in the Tissue: Immune landscapes in Melanoma and Inborn Errors of Immunity" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Anton Venhuizen
On Wednesday May 7th at 12.00 Anton Venhuizen will defend his PhD thesis entitled: ‘Molecular mechanisms of the β-catenin destruction complex in health and disease’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Sonia Aristin Revilla
On Thursday April 3rd at 12.15 Sonia Aristin Revilla will defend her PhD thesis at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Daan van Soest
On Thursday January 30th at 12.00 Daan van Soest will defend his PhD thesis entitled: “Signaling and Damage by Localized Reactive Oxygen Species Production” at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Marc Pagès Gallego
On Monday, January 13, 2025, Marc Pagès Gallego (de Ridder lab) will defend his PhD thesis titled ‘Applied Deep Learning to Nanopore Sequencing: Genomics, Epigenomics, and Diagnostics’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Joep Sprangers
On Wednesday the 18th of December, Joep Sprangers (Maurice lab) will defend his PhD thesis entitled “WNT-mediated regulation of regeneration and oncogenesis” at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD defense Thomas Brand
On Wednesday November 27th Thomas Brand (Coffer lab) will defend his PhD thesis entitled ‘Regulation of progenitor properties and tissue dysfunction by cellular senescence’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht'.
UMCU Spatial Omics Symposium
On Thursday the 14th of November, the 2nd ANNUAL UMC UTRECHT SPATIAL OMICS SYMPOSIUM will be held within the UMCU. See below for more information on the program and invited speakers. Registration is free of charge but limited. Ensure your seat and reserve a spot here.
PhD defense Johannes Lehmann
On Wednesday the 11th of September Johannes Lehmann (postdoc de Keizer lab) will defend his PhD thesis: ‘ The Age of Rebuilt Cartilage' at the Queridozaal at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. During his PhD, Johannes investigated how WNT signalling inhibits paracrine senescence in mesenchymal stem cells as well as how cartilage defects can be repaired with the extracellular matrix of ear cartilage. His promotor is Prof. Gerjo van Osch, his copromotor Dr. Derk ten Berge.
PhD defense Imogen Morris
On Thursday July 11th, Imogen Morris will defend her PhD thesis ‘Lipids in immunometabolism: From lipid handling to lipid antigen presentation and back’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Koos de Wit
On Thursday the 27th of June, Koos de Wit will defend his PhD thesis ‘Risk factors and therapeutic interventions for decompensated cirrhosis affecting the gut-liver axis’ at the Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam
PhD defense Judith de Jong
On Tuesday May 14th, Judith de Jong will defend her PhD thesis: 'Nutritional regulation of intestinal development, homeostasis and cancer' at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Rutger Kok
On Wednesday April 10th, Rutger Kok (Rodriguez-Colman lab) will defend his PhD thesis ‘Homeostasis in intestinal organoids at the single cell level’ at the Senate Hall of the TU Delft.
PhD defense Jeroen Bugter ‘Mechanisms of WNT-related tumour suppressor mutations in colorectal cancer progression’
On Tuesday February 6th, Jeroen Bugter will defend his PhD thesis: 'Mechanisms of WNT-related tumour suppressor mutations in colorectal cancer progression' at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Jooske Monster ‘Sticking together: How adherens junctions orchestrate epithelial integrity’
On Thursday January 25th, Jooske Monster will defend her PhD thesis "Sticking together: How adherens junctions orchestrate epithelial integrity" at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
PhD defense Tianshu Gui 'The structure-function paradigm reshaped by intrinsically disordered regions'
On Monday October 30th Tianshu Gui will defend his PhD thesis titled ‘The structure-function paradigm reshaped by intrinsically disordered regions’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht.
PhD thesis defense Miguel Hernandéz Quiles
PhD thesis defense Miguel Hernandéz Quiles
On Friday May 26th, Miguel Hernandéz Quiles will defend his PhD thesis ‘Proteomics approaches for the study of adipose tissue biology’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
Spacial Omics Symposium UMCU
Learn everything about the UMCU Multi-scale Spatial Omics Platform & how you can use spatial omics to move your research forward.
On the 25th of May from 14.00 -17.00 there will be a mini symposium from the Center for Molecular Medicine and Department of Pathology in UMCU on high end infrastructures for fundamental research (correlative fluorescence/electron microscopy, mass spectrometry imaging, spatial transcriptomics, mass cytometry imaging) in the Q Auditorium in UMCU.
Date And time: 25th May 2023, 14:00-17:00
Location: UMC Utrecht, Auditorium Q-building
Registration link: SpatialOmics registration
Organisors: Yvonne Vercoulen, Andreas Sonnen, Nalan Liv, Ies Nijman, Mojtaba Amini
PhD thesis defense Marlies Ludikhuize
PhD thesis defense Marlies Ludikhuize
On May 9th, Marlies Ludikhuize will defend her PhD thesis ‘Metabolic Regulation of Proliferation and Differentation’ at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht
