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Calender 

May 21, 2012: Harma Meffert, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: prof.dr. C.M. Keysers, prof.dr. J.A. den Boer

 - Title:  Empathy under arrest? Functional and structural neural correlates of empathy in psychopathy

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

May 11, 2012: Paulien Barf , Neuroendocrinology

- Promotor: prof. A.J.W. Scheurink

- Title: Metabolic consequences of sleep restriction in rats

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m. 

 

May 10, 2012: Diana Dimitrova , CLCG

- Promotores: prof.dr. G. Redeker

- Title: Neural correlates of prosody and information structure

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2.30 p.m. 

 

April 26, 2012: Aafke Hoekstra , Special Education

- Promotores: prof.dr. B.F. van der Meulen, prof.dr. A.J.J.M.Ruijssenaars

- Title: Improving the basis: revision of an early childhood home intervention program. The Dutch version of the Portage program - revised

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 12.45 p.m. 

 

April 20, 2012: Jelmer Borst , Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. N.A. Taatgen

- Title:  The problem state bottleneck. Modeling the behavioral and neural signatures of a cognitive bottleneck in human multitasking

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

April 11, 2012: Marieke van der Werf-Eldering , Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. W.A. Nolen, prof.dr. A. Aleman

- Title:  Cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder: between determinants and consequences

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 12:45 p.m.

 

March 28, 2012: Mirjana Stancic , Cell Biology

- Promotor: prof.dr. D. Hoekstra

- Title:  Galectins, (re)myelination and multiple sclerosis pathology

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

March 19, 2012: Aditya Hernowo , Ophthalmology

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.M.M. Hooymans

- Title: Visual pathway morphometry in visual field defects - Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 16, 2012: Ate Boerema, Chronobiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. S. Daan, prof.dr. E.A. van der Zee

- Title: The brain at low temperature: neuronal and behavioural dynamics in mammalian hibernation and torpor

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 14, 2012: Shamsudheen Moidunny , Medical Physiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. K.P.H. Biber, prof.dr. H.W.G.M. Boddeke

- Title: Oncostatin M and leukemia inhibitory factor in excitotoxicity

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

February 29, 2012: Michiel Marcus , Ophthalmology

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.M.M. Hooymans, prof.dr. J.R. Vingerling

- Title: Systemic medications and other risk factors of open-angle glaucoma

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

February 15, 2012: Katharina Goerlich , NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: prof.dr. A. Aleman

- Title: Feelings with no name. In search of a neural basis for alexithymia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

Februari 3, 2012: Arianna Novati,  Chronobiology

 - Promotor: prof.dr. J.M. Koolhaas

- Title: Sleep loss, brain vulnerability and psychopathology: experimental studies on the neurobiological consequences of chronic sleep restriction in rats

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

January 19, 2012: Tita Listyowardojo,   Experimental and Work Psychology

- Promotor: prof.dr. A. Johnson 

- Title: Improving safety culture in health care. Implications of individual and institutional variability

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

January 12, 2012: Marc van Duijn,  Philosophy

- Promotor: prof.dr. T.A.F. Kuipers

- Title: The biocognitive spectrum. Biological cognition as variations on sensorimotor coordination

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

January 6, 2012: Sara Schaafsma ,  Animal Behaviour

- Promotor: prof.dr. A.G.G. Groothuis

- Title: How’s and why’s of left and right. Ontogeny of lateralization and its functional relevance

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

December 21, 2011: Laura Jonker , Human Movement Sciences

- Promotor: prof. C. Visscher

- Title: Self-regulation in sport and education. Important for sport expertise and academic achievement for elite youth athletes

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 00:45 p.m.

 

December 15, 2011: Dörte Hessler , CLCG

- Promotor: prof. Y.R.M. Bastiaanse

- Title: Audiovisual processing in aphasic and non-brain-damaged listeners. The whole is more than the sum of its parts

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

December 8, 2011: Çağrı Çöltekin , CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr.ir. J. Nerbonne

- Title: Catching words in a stream of speech. Computational simulations of segmenting transcribed child-directed speech

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:30 p.m.

 

December 7, 2011: Elise Roze, Pediatrics

- Promotor: prof.dr. A.F. Bos

- Title: Functional development at school age of newborn infants at risk - Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 12.45 p.m.

 

December 2, 2011: Axel A. Brink, Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Robust and applicable handwriting biometrics

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

November 7, 2011: Jojanneke A.C.J. Bastiaansen, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotores: prof. C. Keysers, prof. R.B. Minderaa

- Title: Neural correlates of emotion processing in autism, schizophrenia and mental health

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

  

 

September 7, 2011: Richard Jacobs, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.M.M. Hooymans and prof.dr. A. Aleman

- Title: Aesthetics by numbers

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

July 8, 2011: Idil Kokal, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: prof. dr. C. Keysers

- Title: When we move together: the neural correlates of joint action

- Location: Doopsgezinde kerk, Oude Boteringestraat 33, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

June 17, 2011: Tonio Pera, Moleculaire Pharmacology

- Promotores: prof.dr. H. Meurs, prof.dr. J. Zaagsma

- Title: Inflammation and remodelling in experimental models of COPD. Mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

June 8, 2011: Judith Nijmeijer , Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa, prof.dr. J.K. Buitelaar

- Title: ASD symptoms in children with ADHD familial and genetic underpinnings

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

May 25, 2011: Lisette van der Meer, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. A. Aleman, prof.dr. W.A. Nolen

- Title: Knowing me, knowing you. The emotional self in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

May 25, 2011: Henk ter Horst, Neonatalogy

- Promotor: prof.dr. A.F. Bos

- Title: Amplitude integrated EEG. Longitudinal recordings in critically ill newborns

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

May 11, 2011: Tynke Toering, Human Movement Science

- Promotor: Prof.dr. C. Visscher

- Title: Self-regularion of learning and the performance level of youth soccer players

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

April 13, 2011: Anne Marthe Meppelink, Neurology

- Promotor: prof. K.L. Leenders

- Title: Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease; clinical and fMRI studies

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 28, 2011: Primoz Pirih, Neurobiofysica

- Promotor: prof. D.G. Stavenga

- Title: Vision and structural colouration of butterflies

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 23, 2011: Annet Aukes , Obstetrics and Gynecology

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.G. Aarnoudse, prof.dr. M.J. Cipolla

- Title: Eclampsia & preeclampsia. Causes and long-term consequences of maternal brain involvement

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 18, 2011: Sandra Bouwhuis , Animal Behaviour

- Promotores: prof.dr. S. Verhulst, prof.dr. B.C. Sheldon, prof.dr. M.E. Visser

- Title: Great tits growing old. Patterns and processes of ageing in a wild bird population

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

March 16, 2011: Cornelis van der Kamp , Human Movement Science

- Promotores: prof.dr. E. Otten

- Title: Getting a grip on grasping

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

March 9, 2011: Marleen Schippers, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: prof.dr. C. Keysers

- Title: Brains in interaction

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 7, 2011: Gretha Boersma, Neuroendocrinology

- Promotores: prof.dr. A.J.W. Scheurink, prof.dr. G. van Dijk

- Title: Coping styles and the pathophysiology of energy metabolism

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 2, 2011: Hayo Terband, CLCG

- Promotores: prof.dr. B.A.M. Maassen, prof.dr. P.H.H.M. van Lieshout

- Title: Speech motor function in relation to phonology. Eurocomputational modeling of disordered development

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

February 23, 2011: Falak Sher, Medical Physiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. H.W.G.M. Boddeke

- Title: Differentiation of neural stem cells into oligodendrocytes. Epigenetic mechanisms & potential applications in multiple sclerosis

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

February 23, 2011: Marta Olah, Medical Physiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. H.W.G.M. Boddeke

- Title: Microglia phenotypes, in CNS plasticity and regeneration

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

February 17, 2011: Katrien Colman, CLCG

- Promotores: prof.dr. Y.R.M. Bastiaanse, prof.dr. K.L. Leenders

- Title: Behavioral and neuroimaging studies on language processing in Dutch speakers with Parkinson's disease

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

February 16, 2011: Jan-Bernard Marsman, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.M.M. Hooymans

- Title: Focus on fixations. Neuroimaging of human visual perception

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

January 26, 2011: Nienke Bosch, Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. A.J. Oldehinkel, prof.dr. J Ormel

- Title: Adolescents in stress. The ups and downs of the psychophysiological stress response

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

December 17, 2010: Sar a Roscioni , Molecular Pharmacology

- Promotores: prof.dr. M. Schmidt, prof.dr. H. Meurs

- Title: Epac as a novel regulator of airway smooth muscle phenotype and function. Potential implications in asthma and COPD

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

December 13, 2010: Girstaute Dagyte, Molecular Neurobiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. P.G.M. Luiten, prof.dr. J.A. den Boer, prof.dr. E.A. van der Zee

- Title: The stressed brain. Inquiry into neurobiological changes associated with stress, depression and novel antidepressant treatment

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

December 10, 2010: Deepa Natarajan , Behavioral Physiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. J. Koolhaas

- Title: aSERTaining conflict in mice

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

December 6, 2010: Michel Brink , Human Movement Sciences

- Promotor: prof.dr. C. Visscher

- Title: Signal-driven sound processing for uncontrolled environments

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

December 3, 2010: Roelina Hagewoud , Behavioural Physiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.M. Koolhaas

- Title: Behavioral and molecular consequenses of sleep deprivation

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

December 1, 2010: Cornill Blauw-Hospers , Developmental Neurology

- Promotor: prof.dr. M. Hadders-Algra

- Title: Early intervention in infants at high risk for developmental motor disorders

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

November 11, 2010: Ramona Demenescu , NeuroImaging Center

- Promotores: prof.dr. A. Aleman, prof.dr. J.A. den Boer

- Title: On the neural basis of emotion processing in depression and anxiety. An fMRI study in outpatients

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

November 1, 2010: Zheng Chen , Chronobiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. M. Marrow

- Title: A circadian clock in yeast

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 29, 2010: Dirkjan Krijnders , Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Signal-driven sound processing for uncontrolled environments

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

October 22, 2010: Maria Niessen, Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Contxt-based sound event recognition

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

October 21, 2010: Xiaoyan Xu, CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr. C.L.J. de Bot

- Title: English Langage Attrition and Retention in Chinese and Dutch University Students

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

October 8, 2010: Tal Caspi, CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr. C.L.J. de Bot

- Title: A dynamic perspective on second language acquisition

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

September 24, 2010: Tijn van der Zant, Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Generative AI: a neo-cybernetic analysis

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

September 8, 2010: Kirsten Heineman, Developmental Neurology

- Promotores: prof.dr. M. Hadders-Algra, prof.dr. A.F. Bos

- Title: The infant motor profile. A standardized and qualitative assessment of motor behaviour in infancy

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 04:15 p.m.

 

September 1, 2010: Netty Bos-Venema , Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa, prof.dr. C.G.M. Kallenberg

- Title: Role of genetic and environmental factors in tic disorders

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

July 5, 2010: Marcello Masman , Molecular Neurobiology

- Promotores: prof. P.G.M. Luiten, prof. R.D. Enriz, prof. S.J. Marrink and prof. U.L.M. Eisel

- Title: Development of novel small- size peptides asputative therapeutic drugs

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

July 2, 2010: Ivica Granic, Molecular Neurobiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. U.L.M. Eisel, prof.dr. P.G.M. Luiten, prof.dr. C.J. Nyakas

- Title: Neurodegenerative mechanisms in alzheimer's disease (amyloid aggregation, neuroinflammation, and apoptosis)

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

 

June 30, 2010: Annemiek Polman, Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.A. den Boer, prof.dr. P.J. de Jong

- Title: Dysfunctional beliefs in the understanding and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m.

- Promotores: prof.dr. H. Meurs, prof.dr. J. Zaagsma

- Title: Major role of the matrix in airway smooth muscle phenotype plasticity - Implications for chronic asthma

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

June 24, 2010: Tim van de Cruys, CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr.ir. J. Nerbonne

- Title: Mining for meaning. The extraction of lexico-semanticknowledge from text

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

May 17, 2010: Gert Kootstra, Artificial Intelligence

- Promotor: prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Visual attention and active vision. From natural to artificial systems

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

May 12, 2010: Karin Gomarus, Psychiatry

- Promotor: prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa

- Title: The psychophysiology of selective attention and working memory in children with PDDNOS and/or ADHD

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

April 22, 2010: Ulianov Montaño, Philosophy

- Promotor: prof.dr. T. Kuipers

- Title: Beauty in mathematics

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 31, 2010: Cris Lanting, BCN Neuroimaging center

- Promotor: prof.dr. P. van Dijk

- Title: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Tinnitus

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 19, 2010: Riejanne Seigers, Animal Behaviour

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.M. Koolhaas, prof.dr. F.S.A.M. van Dam

- Title: Chemotherapy. Neurobiology of cognitive impairment in rats

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

March 10, 2010: Saakje Da Costa, Pediatrics

- Promotor: prof.dr. A.F. Bos

- Title: Development of sucking patterns in preterm infants

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:45 p.m.

 

February 17, 2010: Anna Bartels, Neurology

- Promotores: prof.dr. K.L. Leenders, prof.dr. R.A. Dierckx

- Title: Pathogenetic mechanisms in Parkinson's disease: studies with Positron Emission Tomography

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

February 3, 2010: Arjen Noordhof, Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof. J. Ormel, Prof.dr. A.J. Oldehinkel

- Title: In the absence of a gold standaard

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

January 22, 2010: Alinde Wallinga, Behavioral Physiology

- Promotor: prof. J.M. Koolhaas

- Title: Long-term consequences of ecstasy abuse: towards understanding the role of individual variation

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

January 6, 2010: Janine Doorduin, Nuclear Medicine

- Promotor: prof. R.A. Dierckx

- Title: Herpes viruses and neuroinflammation: PET imaging and implication in schizophrenia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

December 23, 2009: Martijn Beudel , Neurology

- Promotor: prof.dr. K.L. Leenders

- Title: External and internal modulation of parieto- premotor circuitry implicated in voluntary motor control

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

December 21, 2009: Izabella Jonas , Neuroendocrinology

- Promotores: prof.dr. G. van Dijk, prof.dr. C. Nyakas

- Title: Nature and nurture effects of voluntary activity and nutrition on energy balance and emotionality; a study in mice

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:15 p.m.

 

December 14, 2009: Hilmar van Weering, Medical Fysiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. H.W.G.M. Boddeke, prof.dr. K.P.H. Biber

- Title: Neuron-glia interactions in the CNS. Implication of CXCR3-signaling in excitotoxicity- induced neurodegeneration

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

November 30, 2009: Marjolein Hoekert, Neuroimaging Center

- Promotores: prof.dr. A. Aleman, prof.dr. R.S. Kahn

- Title: Beyond what is being said. Emotional prosody: its neural basis and its relevance for schizophrenia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

November 26, 2009: Rasmus Steinkrauss , CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr. C.L.J. de Bot

- Title: Frequency and function in WH question acquisition. A usage-based case study of German L1 acquisition

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

November 25, 2009: Bennard Doornbos, Biological Psychiatrie

- Promotores: prof.dr. J. Korf, prof.dr. P. de Jonge, prof.dr. F.A.J. Muskiet

- Title: Hormones, monoamines and peripartum affective symptoms

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

November 23, 2009: Hilga Katerberg, Biological Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.A. den Boer, prof.dr. P. Heutink

- Title: Dimensional phenotypes and molecular genetic studies of obsessions, compulsions and tics

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

November 16, 2009: Kennedy Amone, Trails

- Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Ormel

- Title: Examining the link between socio-economic position and mental health in early adolescents

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

November 12, 2009: Maria Trofimova, CLCG

- Promotor: prof.dr. R. Bastiaanse

- Title: Case-assignment by prepositions in Russian aphasia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 30, 2009: Marian Comas Soberats, Chronobiology

- Promotores: prof.dr. S. Daan, prof.dr. D.G.J.Beersma

- Title: Entrainment to daylength in the mouse circadian system. Behavioural and molecular analyses

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m.

 

October 26, 2009: Vivian Goerlich, Animal Behaviour

- Promotor: prof.dr. T.G.G. Groothuis

- Title: Manipulative mothers. Maternal steroid hormones and avian offspring sex ratio. Studies in the homing pigeon

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1.15 p.m.

 

October 16, 2009: Martijn Salomons , Animal Behaviour

- Promotor: prof.dr. S. Verhulst

- Title: Fighting for fitness. Telomeres, oxidative stress and life history trade-offs in a colonial corvid

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 16, 2009: Ronald van den Berg , Computing Science

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.B.T.M. Roerdink

- Title: Perceptual interactions in human vision and implications for information visualization

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

October 15, 2009: Paco Guzman Muñoz , Experimental and Work Psychology

- Promotor: prof.dr. A. Johnson

- Title: Errors, feedback and attentional load. Differential involvement of memory systems as a function of condition of learning

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

October 14, 2009: Kim van Gaalen, Ophthalmology

- Promotor: Prof.dr. A.C. Kooijman

- Title: Young eyes for elderly people. A clinical comparison of spherical and aspheric intraocular lenses

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

October 14, 2009: Kirsten Lamberts, Neuropsycology

- Promotores: Prof.dr. W.H. Brouwer, Prof.dr. J.H.A. de Keyser

- Title: Executive functioning and ecological validity in fMRI, neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 9, 2009: Kirstin Schubert, Animal Behaviour

- Promotores: prof.dr. S. Daan, prof.dr. H.A.J. Meijer

- Title: Breeding on a budget: fundamental links between energy metab olism and mammalian life history trade-offs

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

October 9, 2009: Doretta Caramaschi, Animal Physiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.M. Koolhaas

- Title: The physiology of aggression: towards understanding violence

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 7, 2009: Rick Schoffelen, Otorhinolaryngology

- Promotor: Prof.dr. P. van Dijk

- Title: Auditory mechanics of the frog basilar papilla

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 3:15 p.m.

 

October 5, 2009: Paolo Toffanin, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotores: Prof.dr. A. Johnson, Prof.dr. R. de Jong, Prof.dr. G.J. ter Horst

- Title: Brain Economics: Housekeeping Routines in the Brain

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

October 5, 2009: Ans Vercammen, NeuroImaging Center

- Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Aleman

- Title: Cognitive and neural processes of auditory-verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

September 17, 2009: Tuba Yarbay Duman, CLCG

- Promotores: Prof.dr. Y.R.M. Bastiaanse, Prof.dr. G. Aygen

- Title: Turkish Agrammatic Aphasia. Word Order, Time Reference and Case

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

September 16, 2009: Monica Dhar, CLCG

- Promotor: Prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa

- Title: Electrophysiological Studies on Visual Information Processing in Dyslexia and ADHD

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

September 14, 2009: Leendert van Maanen, Human Movement Science

- Promotor: Prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker

- Title: Context Effects On Memory Retrieval: Theory And Applications

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

September 9, 2009: Yvonne Groen, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

- Promotor: prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa

- Title: The psychophysiology of error and feedback processing in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic spectrum disorder

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

September 2, 2009: Martin Stenekes, Plastic Surgery

- Promotores: Prof.dr. Th. Mulder, Prof.dr. J.-P.A. Nicolai, Prof.dr. J.H.B. Geertzen

- Title: Cerebral Reorganization and Motor Imagery after Flexor Tendon Repair

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

June 22, 2009: Aline Vrieling,

- Promotores: Prof.dr. K. Postema, Prof.dr. E. Otten

- Title: Movement and balance control in lower limb amputees

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

June 22, 2009: Marieke van der Hart, Center for Rehabilitation

- Promotores: prof.dr. J.A. den Boer, prof.dr. E. Fuchs, prof.dr. B.H.C. Westerink

- Title: Substance P and the neurokinin 1 receptor. From behavior to bioanalysis

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

June 8, 2009: Kirsten Huinink, Biological Psychiatry

- Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Korf

- Title: Slow microfiltration or slow microdialysis to versatile biomonitoring

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m.

 

June 3, 2009: Janneke Bruggink, Pedriatics

- Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Bos

- Title: Early motor repertoire and long-term neurological outcome

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

May 13, 2009: Juha Hijmans, Center for Rehabilitation

- Promotor: Prof.dr. K. Postema, Prof.dr. J.H.B. Geertzen

- Title: Orthotic intervention to improve standing balance in somatosensory loss

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m.

 

May 4, 2009: Ralf Mullers, Behavioral Biology

- Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Daan, prof.dr. J.M. Tinbergen

- Title: The commuting parent. Energetic constraints in a long distance forager, the Cape gannet

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time:

 

May 1, 2009: Anghelus Ostroveanu, Molecular Neurobiology

- Promotores: Prof.dr. P.G.M. Luiten, Prof.dr. E.A. van der Zee, Prof.dr. U.L.M. Eisel

- Title: Novel cyclic AMP Signalling avenues in learning and memory

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m.

 

March 18, 2009: Marit Tanke, Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof. dr. J. Korf, prof.dr. P. de Jonge

- Title: Serotonin, cortisol and stress-related psychopathology, from bench to bed

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m.

- Lekenpraatje: 2.45 p.m. Location: Klein auditorium psychiatrie, building 32, UCP

 

February 18, 2009: Stephan Bouman, Neuroendorcrinology

- Promotores: prof. A.J.W. Scheurink

- Title: Counterr egulation to acute and recurrent hypoglycemia in rats

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m.

 

February 18, 2009: Janneke Koerts, Neurology

- Promotores: Prof. K.L. Leenders, Prof. W.H. Brouwer

- Title: Parkinson's Disease: Neuroimaging and clinical studies on cognition and depression

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m.

 

December 17, 2008: Paulien de Vries, Neurology

- Promotores: Prof.dr. K.L. Leenders, Prof.dr. N. Maurits

- Title: to be announced

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m. 

 

December 12, 2008: Carlos Rizzo Sierra, Biomedical Technology

- Promotores: Prof.dr.ir. H. Duifhuis

- Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acoustic noise: estimation, characterization and reduction

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m. 

 

- Promotor: Prof.dr. N. Maurits

- Title: Multichannel EEG: towards applications in clinical neurology

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m. 

 

December 4, 2008: Marieke Pijnenborg,

- Promotores: prof. W. Brouwer, prof. R. van den Bosch, prof. J. Evans

-Title: Cognitive impairments in schizophrenia: social cognition and cognitive rehabilitation from a clinical perspective

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m.

 

November 12, 2008: Kirsten Kaptein, Biological Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof. J. Korf, prof. P. de Jonge

- Title: Recovery from depression: new insights in time-course analyses

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m. 

 

November 6, 2008: Els Blijd-Hoogewijs, Psychology

- Promotores: prof. P.L.C. van Geert, Prof.dr. R.B. Minderaa

- Title: The development of Theory-of-Mind and the Theory-of-Mind Storybooks

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4:15 p.m. 

 

October 24, 2008: Erik Urbach, Computing Science

- Promotor: prof. N. Petkov

- Title: Advanced morphological pattern spectra and multi-scale filtering

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 1:15 p.m. 

 

October 17, 2008: Angelique Heinsbroek , Neuroendocrinology

- Promotores: prof. G. van Dijk, prof. A. Scheurink

- Title: Influence of perinatal environment on health and disease: an inventory in rats

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 4.15 p.m. 

 

October 1, 2008: Rob Bisseling, Human Movement Science

- Promotor: Prof.dr. Th. Mulder

- Title: Biomechanical determinants of the jumper's knee in volleyball

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m. 

 

September 11, 2008: Koenraad van Braeckel, Clinical and Developmental Psychology

- Promotor: prof.dr. J.M. Bouma

- Title: Pointing to the future. New insights into Elementary Visuomotor Processes in Typically Developing and Preterm Born Children

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 13.15 p.m. 

 

June 16, 2008: Amalia Dolga, Molecular Neurobiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. P.G.M. Luiten

- Title: Neuroprotective signaling mechanisms in the mammalian brain

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 11:00 a.m. 

 

June 4, 2008: Marijn Post, Medical Physiology

- Promotor: prof.dr. H.W.G.M. Boddeke

- Title: Bilateral Interactions between Hands: Associated Contractions and Bilateral Deficit

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m. 

 

June, 2008: Suzanne Houwen, Human Movement

- Promotores: prof.dr. C. Visscher en prof.dr. K.A.P.M. Lemmink

- Title: to be announced

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: p.m. 

 

April 23, 2008: Marieke de Groot, Social Psychiatry

- Promotores: prof.dr. W.A. Nolen and prof.dr. J. Neeleman

- Title: Bereaved by suicide: family-based cognitive behavior therapy to prevent adverse health consequences among first-degree relatives and spouses

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 2:45 p.m. 

 

April 17, 2008: Julia Klitsch, CLCG

- Promotor: prof. Y.R.M. Bastiaanse

- Title: Open your eyes and listen carefully. Auditory and audiovisual speech perception and the McGurk effect in Dutch speakers with and without aphasia

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 16.15 p.m.

 

- Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

- Time: 16.15 p.m.