Robbert Berkhout

Prof. Isaac Blickstein
Education
Erasmus University Rotterdam, School of Medicine (M.D.)
Work Experience
2014 – current PhD-candidate
Department of Reproductive Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, VU University Amsterdam
o Translational research in the Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine at the Center for Reproductive Medicine (CVV).
2012 – 2014 Medical Intern (graduate program)
– Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
o Elective rotation (12 weeks) and project coordinator pilot study: Lactate measurement in Fetal Blood Sampling, Maasstadziekenhuis, Rotterdam.
o Elective rotation (3 weeks), Scheer Memorial Hospital, Banepa, Nepal.
– Department of Urology
o Elective rotation (3 weeks), Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam.
– Department of Pediatric Transplant Surgery
o Observership (4 weeks), Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
2011 (8 months) Research Intern
– Department of Molecular Biology and Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
o Lab techniques: mouse experimentation from surgery to ChIP sequencing, several DNA and RNA approaches, PCR, ELISA.
o Publication: B.E. Aronson et al., GATA4 represses an ileal program of gene expression in the proximal small intestine by inhibiting the acetylation of histone H3, lysine 27, Biochim. Biophys. Acta (2014).
2010 Medical Intern (under graduate program)
– Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Hospital Civil/Infantil, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
o Observership (3 weeks)
2009 – 2012 Student assistant
– Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital