Systems Biology (specialization)

Internships

The second year is primarily devoted to individual research training. Research takes the form of a major research project conducted within one of the participating research groups, resulting in a Master's thesis, and a smaller research project conducted in a second, different research group. A literature study concludes the programme.

Usually the research project(s) will be carried out at one of the participating institutes of departments of either the VU University Amsterdam or the University of Amsterdam. Research topics include:

• plant, human and microbial physiology;
• epigenetics;
• human disease research (oncology, immunology, metabolic disorders);
• biotechnology;
• microbial evolution;
• network analysis;
• mathematical modeling;
• bioinformatics;
• statistical analysis of large datasets