Veerle's Bio

Hi everyone!
My name is Veerle, 23 years old and imported from Woerden to Amsterdam 5 years ago. I'm in the Neuroscience track, and I'm actually somewhere between a first and second year master student.
After high school I chose to study psychobiology at the UvA because, like most psychobiologists, I don't like plants, but I do like biology! Furthermore, I liked it that this study was in a way broader than medical biology, because it involves psychology as well. However, during my bachelors I realized that I prefer biology over psychology. I kind of overreacted to this thought by starting a master Drug Innovation at Utrecht University (after a long fabulous trip to South-America of course :)), but soon after I started there, I began to miss the neurons and the UvA! I found out that I was already on the right place at the UvA, apperently the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Thanks to UvA's flexible administration, I was able to start in the middle of the year with the Neuroscience master. I did an internship at the Neurogenetics department at the Academical Medical Centre, which I really liked. During these 5 months, I was trying to find genetic mutations causing a neurodegenerative disease (pontocerebellar hypoplasia). Partly because of this internship I fell in love with science and research and I definately want to do a PhD after my masters.
At the moment I'm doing my second internship at the VU about how an unknown protein and ubiquitination are involved in learning and memory. Ooooh, magic!
Groetjes! Veerle