Fatih Boogaards

Fatih Bogaards (1992) started his PhD in November 2019. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology at the Hogeschool InHolland in Amsterdam. During his bachelor he did an internship at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam and was accepted for an Erasmus internship grant at the University of Liverpool. During these two internships, he focused on the activity levels of the polymerase complex of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 and the infectivity levels of mother-to-child transmissible HIV-1.

After completing his bachelor’s degree, he started the masterinMolecular and Cellular Life Sciences with a bioinformatics profile at Utrecht University (UU). During his first master’s internship at the UU, he combined wet laboratory work with in silico analysis to investigate the recognition principle of the molecular chaperone Hsp90. During his first master’s internship at the UU, he combined wet laboratory work with in silico analysis to investigate the recognition principle of the molecular chaperone Hsp90. For this project, he combined scale-free network analysis with linear mixed model analysis to identify time-specific differentially expressed hub genes indicative of Influenza A infection.

His PhD research is part of the VOILA (VitalityOrientedInnovationsfor theLifecourse of theAging Society) project and focuses on combining data from different studies on lifestyle intervention.