BiGCaT Interns

On this page, you can find a list of ongoing and previous internships at the Department of Bioinformatics.

Interns 2022/23

Students 2021/22

Student Internship

Xavier Nauts
Bachlor BBS

Title: Interactive biological pathways for rare diseases with a focus on Spina Bifida
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Theodoros Zarotiadis
Master MSB

Title: Transcriptomics and Genetic Variance Analysis in Human Inclusion Myositis, using Pathway and Network Analysis Approaches
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart, Lars Eijssen

Daniel Lupascu
Master MBS

Title: Pathway and Network Analysis of Ferroptosis for Autoimmune Disease Target Identification
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO)

Patrick Mertens
Zuyd University

Title: Analysis of publicly accessible molecular neuropathology data using bioinformatics tools
Supervisor: Lars Eijssen

Nuray Talih
MSP

Title: COVID-19 pathway curation and analysis
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon, Nhung Pham

John Figueira Hasbun
Master MBS

Title: Creating COVID-19 molecular pathway models for data analysis
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO), Nhung Pham

Stefan Huber
UCM

Title: Drug Repurposing using Recommender Systems
Supervisor: Ammar Ammar

Claire Billingsley
MSP

Title: Studying molecular processes to understand the differences in disease severity of COVID-19 patients
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon, Nhung Pham

Amaury Pelzer
Bachelor BBS

Title: Metabolic modelling to better understand the role of the microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease
Supervisor: Susan Steinbusch-Coort, Duygu Dede Sener

Susanne Bachmann
Bachelor BBS

Title: Interactive biological pathways for rare diseases - Bardet-Biedl Syndrome
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Maria van de Meent
Bachelor BBS

Title: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of pancreatic cancer 
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon

Leon Giesselink
Bachelor BBS

Title: Molecular networks for schizophrenia
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Velina Pencheva
Bachelor BBS

Title: Interactive biological pathway for the rare disease of cholestasis
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Christel de Vries
Bachelor BBS

Title: Pathways for rare diseases (INCPH)
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Students 2020/21

   
Student Internship

Ulas Babayiģit
Bachelor BBS, UM

Interactive biological pathways for rare diseases

Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Yasmine Bouwers
Applied Sciences at Fontys

Systems biology analysis of publicly available transcriptomic data related to vitamin D exposure to identify changes in cognition-related cellular processes.
Supervisor: Lars Eijssen (BIGCAT/NP)

Calvin Classon
Bachelor BBS, UM

Creating COVID-19 molecular pathway models for data analysis
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO) / Nhung Pham

Natalie Hinková
Bachelor BBS, UM

Interactive biological pathways for rare diseases
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Alp Irkilmez
Bachelor BBS, UM

Interactive biological pathways for rare diseases
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Nanda Knoops
Bachelor BBS, UM

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of pancreatic cancer
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO)

Jarno Koetsier
Bachelor BBS, UM

Building an automated workflow for isoform expression analysis using Affymetrix ST arrays
Supervisor: Lars Eijssen (BIGCAT/NP)

Lisa Koole
Bachelor BBS, UM

Interactive biological pathways for neuroinflammatory diseases
Supervisor: Friederike Ehrhart

Franziska Kreidl
Bachelor BBS, UM

Development of a molecular Adverse Outcome Pathway of mesothelioma through asbestos exposure
Supervisor: Egon Willighagen, Marvin Martens

Tom Pauly
Applied Sciences at Fontys

Systems biology analysis of publicly available transcriptomic data related to vitamin D exposure to identify changes in cognition-related cellular processes.
Supervisor: Lars Eijssen (BIGCAT/NP)

Ravin Schmidl
Master MSB, UM

Identifying and Validating Repurposable Drugs (and combinations of them) for COVID-19
Supervisor: Chris Evelo, Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO)

Rocheliëne Tokaai
Bachelor BBS, UM

Creating COVID-19 molecular pathway models for data analysis
Supervisor: Martina Summer-Kutmon (BIGCAT/MACSBIO), Nhung Pham

Floris Veugels
Bachelor BBS, UM

Using RNA sequencing data for targeted iso form expression analysis
Supervisor: Lars Eijssen (BIGCAT/NP)