New PhD Student

July 1, 2023: Loes Ettema has joined the Menzel Lab. She will develop dedicated tissue preparation and measurement protocols for Computational Scattered Light Imaging, allowing to disentangle densely interwoven fiber networks - not only in the brain, but also in other fibrous tissue samples containing muscle or collagen fibers.

Loes received her Bachelor’s degree in Medical Natural Sciences and her Master’s degree in Biomedical Technology and Physics, both at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She worked in the Biophotonics and Medical Imaging group, supervised by Dr. Freek Ariese and Prof. dr. Marloes Groot, where she performed label-free Raman and fluorescence imaging on Alzheimer’s diseased brain tissues, and used second harmonic generation microscopy to image axon-like structures in differentiated cell cultures.