Student testimonials 2012 of the Laboratory of Nematology
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The Nematology group has a high focus on education as they are involved a multitude of courses...
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... I was able to show the importance of auxin hormone for root-knot nematodes to cause infection...
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... I acquired knowledge in new techniques or different ways to perform this techniques...
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... now I know that C. elegans is a beautiful model organism for human aging and disease
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... preparing my project proposal, get deep into the subject, planning and get clarified with supervisors...
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... I did not have any big problems with my lab work ...
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... these results were interesting and promising in genomics
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... I got the opportunity to work on different project and thus broaden my view and got acquainted to work with different projects at the same time
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... I performed virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) on Nicotiana benthamiana plants to knock out those genes ...
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I was looking for functional and non-functional orthologs of Gpa2 to determine which amino-acids are required for recognition of Rbp-1 by the Gpa2 R-protein
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I stimulated dendritic cells with certain mushroom extracts (β-glucan extracts and fresh ground extracts) and investigated the response of the dendritic cells
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... this may help us understand better how interpersonal variation influences complex diseases such as cancer
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During this time I learned a lot from each project
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Different molecular techniques were used to examine presence of different fungal species in the roots
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I think I even fell in love with the (smell of the) greenhouse
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Once I got started I actually didn’t want to stop
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Through The Netherlands we travelled, my supervisors and me, to obtain sediment samples from different sites
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The weekly work discussions encouraged me to work harder and always provided some constructive feedback from the members of my research group
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My thesis project was an exciting journey from plant biotechnology to immunology and back again
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