Eelke Brouwers

Experience

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  University of Amsterdam

  Sept 2008 - Dec 2008

  Laboratory Teaching Assistant

  Supervising groups of up to 12 students during lab work of the courses "Bio-organic Chemistry, Biochemics & Celbiology” and “Histology”.

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  Academic Medical Center

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2010

  Intern Movement Disorders

  Comparing tics suppression network in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome with suppression of natural urges using fMRI imaging

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  Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2011

  Intern Neuromodulation and Behaviour

  Studying the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in an animal model for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): the Sapap3-mutant mouse.

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  Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam

  Nov 2011 - Jan 2014

  Private Tutor

  Teaching Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology to individual high school students.

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  University of Amsterdam

  Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  Teaching students in writing a literature thesis. Supervising groups of up to 12 students during lab work of the courses "Anatomy of the rat”, “Physiology”, “Learning and Memory”, “Neuropharmacology” and “Communication in Biology”.

  • Teacher

    Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  • Laboratory Teaching Assistant

    Mar 2012 - Jan 2013
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  VU University Medical Center - Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam

  Mar 2014 - Jul 2020

  During my PhD project I have been studying several topics aimed at gaining insight in the childhood leukodystrophy MLC (Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts): - Physiological properties of pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus and motor cortex - The development of myelin vacuoles in relation to seizure activity- Cell volume regulation in lymphoblasts and astrocytesTechnical experience: electrophysiology (whole cell patch clamp), imaging (confocal and live cell fluorescence microscopy), cell culturing (HEK293T, HeLa, astrocytes), transfections (PEI, FuGENE) and data analysis (Matlab, Excel, Graphpad Prism, Adobe illustrator, ImageJ) Show less

  • PHD Student

    Apr 2015 - Jul 2020

  • Research assistent

    Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
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  NTC Het Noorderlicht

  Apr 2020 - Jul 2022

  Working as a volunteer on the board of the Dutch school in Oslo. Tasks: design newsletters and questionnaires and keep the social media channels and website up-to-date. Dutch language education to children in their second year of elementary school.

  • Board member Communication

    Nov 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Teacher

    Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
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  Adecco

  Sept 2021 - Jun 2022

  Daycare Assistant
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  Seventrees

  Mar 2023 - now

  Data Analyst