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Naarden

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Thrips are tiny-cell-content-feeding insects that cause severe plant growth reduction and discoloration of leaves and fruits. Moreover, thrips are important vectors of plant viruses. The control of thrips relies mainly on the use of pesticides but still 15-20% of crop- and ornamental production is lost annually. Implementations of new EU regulatory.

Plant-microbe Interactions

I got accepted to the Experimental Plant Sciences (EPS) MSc talent program. During this program, 12 MSc students got the opportunity to write their own PhD proposal. Additional training in academic writing and presentation skills was given to prepare the students in the best possible way to write and present/defend their own proposed research. The best 4.

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

For my 8-month- internship I participated in a research project in the group of Prof. Philippe Reymond. I studied the negative crosstalk between two defense signaling pathways of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana when subjected to eggs of the large cabbage white (Pieris brassicae) and wounding. Techniques that I mainly used during this study were GUS.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

I attended my 9-months-internship at the Plant- Microbe Interactions group of Prof. Dr. Ir. Corné Pieterse where I was supervised by the PhD student Irene Vos and co-supervised by Dr. Saskia van Wees. I studied the effect of the downy mildew pathogen Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis on growth, flowering time and seed production of the model plant Arabidopsis.

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

I have been a student assistant during the 3rd-year bachelor course ‘Plants, Adaptation and Defense’ at the Utrecht University. This involved (1) assisting students during experiments and the so-called ‘mini internships’, (2) evaluating the oral presentations of the students and (3) supervising during exams.

Msc Environmental Biology, Plant Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology