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MSc. Students
& internships: In 2008, I won't supervise internshipstudents anymore at Utrecht University. If you are interested in doing an intership on the neurobiology of birdsong, you can contact Johan Bolhuis. Let him know what your scientific interests are; what Master-program you are following, which relevant courses you've done already and when you would like to start your internship. The duration of an internship is nine months (if that doesn't fit into your schedule, we can consider a shorter time period). |
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| Mirjam
van Loon (started 26-3-2007): "Hi! My name
is Mirjam van Loon. Originally I’m a zoological lab-tech in
bio-medical
research. I got my bachelor degree for that in 2002. I’ve
been working on
asthma fundamental research at the "This is the reason why in
September I started a pre-master and now I’m doing a
master in this subject. Therefore I’m doing this internship.
The learning trajectory
of male zebra finches to sing songs really interested me.
I’ve just started,
but I’m sure I’m gonna have a good time and learn
lots of things here!" |
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Marita
Dijkshoorn (1-2-2007 / 1-10-2007): "Hi, I’m Marita Dijkshoorn, student of the master Science Teacher Education. After finishing my bachelor at the UU, I went looking for interesting internships. The research on zebra finches seemed very diverse to me, since it encompasses working with animals and their behaviour, laboratorial work and working on sounds with the computer. I only started two weeks ago, but I’m already taken by the exciting experiment we’re doing. We’re looking at IEG’s in the brains of male zebra finches after they’ve had a ‘learning’ experience. We want to investigate if immediate early genes are involved in learning and memory consolidation in young birds. I find it really interesting to experience all the different steps and facets which are part of doing an experiment, and hope to see some nice results in the end!" |
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| Gijs
van de Sande (1-9-2005 / 1-9-2006): "Hello, my name is Gijs van de Sande and I study biology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. I did my first six months research internship in Nijmegen at the Biological Psychology department. By means of electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements, focusing on the P3 component, I investigated the process of associative learning. The measurements were made while participants carried out a classical conditioning based computer task." "At the moment I’m doing my second internship here at the Behavioural Biology group of the University of Utrecht. I’m focusing on the neural substrate for song perception and memory in the brains of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). The experiments contain a variety of behavioural tests and neurological tests and this makes this internship very interesting." |
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Sita
ter Haar (2-5-2005 / 1-9-2006): "My name is Sita ter Haar. I just finished my Bachelors here at the Utrecht University. My masters programme is Animal Biology. I started my internship in the Behavioural Biology group in May 2005 and it had been fun from the beginning!" "My subject is the mechanisms of perception of communication signals, investigated by making use of Immediate Early Gene (IEG) expression in the Zebra Finch brain." Sita ter Haar is now a PhD-student at Leiden University |
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| Jeanette
Pots (7-2-2005 / 31-1-2006): "Hi, my name is Jeanette Pots. I studied Biology & Medical Laboratory research at the Saxion Hogeschool Enschede. Now I'm in the last year of my study Biology at the Radboud University, Nijmegen. For my Master program, I'm doing a 6-7 months internship at the Behavioural Biology group at the Utrecht University and it's very nice and interesting." "Here, I work on a project of birdsong learning and want to investigate the role of the brain regions NCM and CMM in song perception and memory in male zebra finches. What I like most of my internship, is the combination of animal behaviour and neurobiology and the variety of the practical work." |
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Kim
Roosemalen (17-1-2005 / 13-12-2005): " I studied biology at Wageningen University. Now I am in my first year of the master Science Teacher Education. The internship at behavioural biology is part of that master. I am doing a six months project. I want to find out where in the zebra finch brain the neural substrate of memory is located. A particular forebrain region may be involved in memory storage. I do behavioural tests, and analyse the songs of the birds." " I also do histological work and in the end I combine the data of the behavioural tests and the brain in order to draw conclusions. I enjoy working on this project, it is very interesting to study the interaction between brain and behaviour in these animals." |
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| Hanneke Poot (1-4-2007 /
1-6-2007): Hanneke Poot is now a PhD-student at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology |
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| Josine Verhaal
(12-4-2004 / 12-11-2004): Josine Verhaal is now a PhD-student at the Ruhr University Bochum |
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