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Curriculum vitae
Anika Bongaarts was born on the 16th of October, 1990 in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. After graduating from her secondary school “het Erasmus college”, in Zoetermeer in 2009, she started her bachelor in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2010. During her bachelor she completed her first scientific internship where she investigated the expression of dopamine-related genes in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease under the supervision of prof. Marten Smidt at the Department of Molecular Neurosciences, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, UvA, Amsterdam. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2013 and continued with the master’s program Biomedical Sciences, specifically the track “Molecular Neurosciences” at the UvA in 2013. During this master she performed her first master research internship under the supervision of Dr. Johan de Rooij at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, where she studied specific molecules that are involved in tension-dependent cell-cell interactions. During her second internship she investigated the role of WNT-signaling in a 3D mammary gland model under the supervision of Dr. Renée van Amerongen at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, UvA, Amsterdam. In August 2015 she received her master’s degree, after which she continued her academic career as a PhD student in January 2016 in the lab of prof. Dr. Eleonora Aronica at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and started her PhD project focusing on subependymal giant cell astrocytomas in tuberous sclerosis complex, of which the results are presented in this thesis.
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