Agenda: PhD defence ceremonies - University of Amsterdam

26Sept2017

Targeted treatment of Barrett's esophagus

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The aim of Luigi Mari's research is to produce novel insights into the pathogenesis of Barrett's esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, ranging from molecular pathways to anti-tumour immunity. Additionally, we ...

26Sept2017

Genesis, functions and dynamics of plant vacuoles

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Vacuoles are the largest compartments in plant cells that show a broad diversification in shape, dimensions content and function among species and tissues. Yanbang Li studies the genesis, functions and dynamics of ...

26Sept2017

Visual processing in the retina of fish

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Visual perception starts in the retina with the transduction of light into neuronal signals. The retina has evolved in such a way that it can process and code this information efficiently before it sends it to the ...

26Sept2017

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps

16:00 - 17:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps is a chronic disease with a significant negative impact on quality of life and high costs in terms of medical resources. To keep improving our treatment for patients of this ...

27Sept2017

Diagnosis and treatment of early esophageal neoplasia

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Over the past twenty years there have been major advances in the detection and treatment of early esophageal cancer. Neoplasia is identified at an earlier stage, allowing less invasive endoscopic treatment instead of ...

27Sept2017

Digital remembrance in Ukraine

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Mykola Makhortykh examines what happens with Second World War memories in post-socialist countries with the advent of digitization. He looks at instances of digital remembrance associated with two episodes of the ...

27Sept2017

Research methodology in distal radius fracture care

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Distal radius fractures (DRFs) are the most common form of fracture seen in the emergency room. To determine effective evidence-based treatment of this type of fracture through best-evidence trials, and properly ...

27Sept2017

Prevention of biomaterial-associated infections

13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The use of medical devices has grown significantly over the last decades, and has become a major part of modern medicine and our daily life. The risk of infection is a significant problem with any inserted or ...

27Sept2017

Predicting astrophysical backgrounds

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Michael Feyereisen has presented improvements to a methodology for predicting the probability distribution of diffuse isotropic astrophysical backgrounds, applied to high-energy extragalactic gamma rays and ...

28Sept2017

The revolutionary innovations of Andreas Vesalius

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Romy Brinkman presents and discusses some anatomical and physiological aspects of Andreas Vesalius's major work De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (De Fabrica), the first comprehensive work on human anatomy. ...

28Sept2017

Complications relating to percutaneous transcatheter interventions

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

In the past few decades advancements in the field of interventional cardiology have resulted in better survival rates and shorter recovery periods for patients with coronary artery and valve disease. Improved life ...

28Sept2017

Complications in calcaneal fracture surgery

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

In her research Manouk Backes focuses on wound complications following two different areas of lower extremity trauma surgery: calcaneal fracture surgery and implant removal below the knee.

29Sept2017

New insights into sodium homeostasis

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

In his research, Rik Olde Engberink studies the physiology of sodium homeostasis. According to the two-compartment model, the kidneys are solely responsible for matching sodium excretion and sodium intake, thereby ...

29Sept2017

Reducing side effects of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Radiotherapy is an important treatment for patients with head and neck cancer, but is also associated with serious side effects. These can be limited by minimising the tissue that is irradiated in the body ...

29Sept2017

Effects of interest deduction limitation rules

13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Over the past years the public debate around tax avoidance has become more intense, and governments are expected to take measures to curb tax avoidance. One of the relevant topics in this respect is the deduction of ...

29Sept2017

Causes and treatment of extreme vomiting during pregnancy

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Up to 3% of pregnant women are affected by hyperemesis gravidarium, i.e. severe or protracted vomiting. Iris Grooten's research focuses on the causes, diagnosis, treatment options and long-term consequences of this ...

02Oct2017

Bilingualism and cognition

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Evelyn Bosma’s aim is to investigate the interplay between bilingualism and cognition by examining the linguistic and cognitive development of 5- to 8-year-old children who grow up in Fryslân, a bilingual province in ...

03Oct2017

HIV screening in Kenya

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains a key global challenge despite tremendous scale-up of access to antiretroviral therapy and other HIV prevention and care interventions. While a preventative HIV vaccine would be the ...

03Oct2017

Covalent template-assisted synthesis of mechanically interlocked molecules

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Interlocked structures are present all around us. They can be found in functional materials such as chains, knots and nooses, but also in shoelaces or a ring on a finger, for example. Luuk Steemers investigates ...

04Oct2017

Type 2 diabetes among African migrants in Europe

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The global burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is high and rising and affects high income countries as well as middle-and low income countries, such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan African immigrants in ...

04Oct2017

Composition in Athenian black-figure vase-painting

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Geralda Jurriaans-Helle’s aim is to gain insight into the pictorial language of Athenian black-figure vase-painting and to make clear that it obeyed certain rules, which were familiar to all Athenians in the 6th ...

04Oct2017

The politics of public domain

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

New markets, such as farmers’ markets and gourmet markets, pop up every day in cities around the world. This development is not only riding the wave of the current popularity of food and foodism, but is also ...

04Oct2017

HIV support in Kenya

13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

What would the lives of HIV-positive Kenyans be like without the contribution of HIV Support Groups fighting stigma and discrimination and providing HIV-related care and support. Emmy Kageha Igonya conducts research ...

04Oct2017

Measuring real contact area during friction

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Friction occurs when two objects, hands for example, come into contact. The current consensus is that both frictional and normal force are proportional to the ‘real contact area’. Surface roughness prevents surfaces ...

04Oct2017

Evidence in epistemic logic

16:00 - 17:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Aybüke Özgün studies logic of knowledge, belief and information dynamics using topological spaces as models. She is concerned with the formal representation of evidence and its links to justification, justified ...

05Oct2017

Reverse engineering source code

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

The goal of software renovation is to modernize existing software. Modern software tools can be used to refresh aging software to better match its technical and business environment. The overarching motivation for ...

05Oct2017

Function estimation problems

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Nonparametric models are widely used in practical applications and involve at least one infinite-dimensional parameter of interest which is commonly a function or measure. A standard example of such a model would be ...

05Oct2017

Classical galactosemia

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Since the identification of classical galactosemia (CG), an autosomal recessive inborn of metabolism error caused by a deficiency of the enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GALT), only one treatment has ...

06Oct2017

Constructing female citizenship in transition

11:00 - 12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Education practices, as part of socially constructed institutions, can be highly gendered and as such present models of expected behaviour from young men and young women. However, such practices also vary ...

06Oct2017

Neutrophils in respiratory syncytial virus disease

12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains one of the most important causes of childhood lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) worldwide. Severe RSV-LRTD is characterized by profound neutrophilic inflammation in the ...

06Oct2017

In search of supersymmetry

13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Pierfrancesco Butti’s research is divided into two parts. The first part presents the results of the Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector during 2012, the LHC shutdown (2013-2014) and the early Run-2 data taking ...