Preclinical Immunology - Viral VaccinesKey Responsibilities: Coordinating and conducting experiments to assess new vaccine candidates. Studying underlying mechanisms of immune response post-vaccination in relation to adverse effects.Acquired Competencies: Communication with external partners. Stakeholder management. Renovation of high-tech ML-II laboratory. Facilitation of various project groups including lab spaces, assay development, and procurement of laboratory equipment.

Preclinical Immunology - Viral VaccinesKey Responsibilities: Coordinating and conducting experiments to assess new vaccine candidates. Developing methodologies. Designing and executing in vitro screening experiments.Acquired Competencies: Evaluation of electronic laboratory notebooks. Business trips abroad to transfer or learn techniques. Data interpretation. Study reporting. Assay setup. Assay qualification experiments. Responsible for ordering/replacing new laboratory equipment. Communication with external partners. Guiding new employees and PhD students.

Preclinical Immunology - Viral VaccinesKey Responsibilities: Evaluation of vaccine candidates against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in preclinical animal models. Performing immunological experiments. Analyzing test results, creating scientific visualizations, and contributing to and/or delivering presentations to management.Acquired Competencies: Laboratory techniques related to in vitro and in vivo humoral and cellular immunity research. Planning of in vitro and in vivo experiments. Head of an immunological laboratory. Coordinating international shipments. Communication with suppliers regarding addition to the SAP system and ordering laboratory consumables.

Department of Biology, Microbiology, Fungal Physiology groupReport title: “The influence of XlnR and AraR on differentiation in an Aspergillus Niger colony during growth on wheat bran”Laboratory techniques: fungal culturing, solid and liquid sandwich cultures, preparation of cell free extract, enzyme activity assays, immunodetection, SDS-page, western blot, gene expression analysis (microarray data and northern analysis)Fermentation experiment at TNO Zeist, 2 weeksDepartment of, Microbiology, Quality of LifeLaboratory techniques: batch fermentation, dry weight determination

Institute of Biology, Molecular MicrobiologyReport title: “Construction of deletion cassettes of sucrose degrading enzymes encoded by sucA and inuE in Aspergillus Niger”Laboratory techniques: Aspergillus niger transformation, fungal culturing, southern blot, PCR, restriction digests, cloning, Escherichia coli transformation, DNA purification

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pre-clinicReport title: “A novel 99mTc-radiofolate tracer tested in vitro and in vivo”Laboratory techniques: in vitro tumour cell culturing, protein assays, radio-labeling, internalization and externalization experiments; in vivo subcutaneous inoculation, intraportal injection, biodistribution studies and NanoSPECT/CT imaging, in vitro and ex vivo autoradiography, radioactivity concentration measurements.