Loet Coenen Email & Phone Number

PhD Project on Blood Factors contributing to Aging & Dementia in close collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Junior Lecturer for the Bachelor study Psychology. In this function, I gave lectures of a variety of courses to bachelor students. Examples of courses are: Statistics, Methodology, Brain and behavior.

► 𝘼𝙞𝙢: Investigation of regulatory changes of Schizophrenia risk genes in different brain areas and across evolution▷ 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨: Computational approach, programming in MATLAB and R to write custom analyses, analysis of RNA Sequencing data

► 𝘼𝙞𝙢: Investigation of the role of Krab Zinc Finger Proteins in the regulation of neurodevelopmental genes over evolution.▷ 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨: Comparative genomics, PCR, molecular cloning, Luciferase reporter assay, mouse embryonic stem cell culturing.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

► 𝘼𝙞𝙢: Comparison of diverse electrophysiological, morphological and genetic signature of mouse and human neurons as port of an on-going collaboration between the Integrative Neurophyshiology Lab and the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences▷ 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨: Patch-clamp, Patch-Seq protocol to isolate nuclei, brain slice preparation, DAB staining.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

► 𝘼𝙞𝙢: Investigate how a movement intervention in children may contribute to structural brain changes, motor performance and cognitive performance as part of the on-going project 'Slim Door Gym' (http://slimdoorgym.nl/).▷ 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨: Analysis of MRI data, neuropsychological assesment, motor skills assesment.

Master'S Degree, Research Master Neuroscience

► Specialization in Fundamental Neuroscience, with practicals including several molecular techniques, live cell imaging and patch-clamp.

Master'S Degree, Research Master Cognitive Neuropsychology

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

► Double minor in Biological Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology ► Obtained additional 108 ECTs extra curricular with different.