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Rebekka Koeck

PhD candidate

+31 43 38 71272

ORCiD

Laboratory of Cellular Genomic Medicine
Department of Clinical Genetics
Maastricht UMC+
P. Debyelaan 25
6229 HX Maastricht
The Netherlands

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About me

During my pre-clinical training from 2011-2014 at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, I discovered my interest in human development and selected several modules focusing on the formation of different organ systems. I wanted to learn more about these intricate processes, so I chose to interrupt my medical degree to do a Master of Research in Maternal and Fetal Health at Manchester University, which I completed in 2015. During my master’s degree I had the opportunity to do an internship in the lab of Professor John Aplin where I used in vitro model to study the effects of environmentally induced embryo stress on the process of implantation. I returned to Brighton and Sussex Medical School to complete my clinical training in 2018 before working as a junior doctor in different hospitals of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS trust. Throughout my clinical training I maintained a focus on obstetrics and fertility, by choosing to do extra placements in these specialties and being secretary of the university’s obstetrics and gynaecology society. I wanted to delve deeper into the topics I had been introduced to in my Masters internship and contribute to the improvement of fertility treatments, so in 2019 I joined the Cellular Genomic Medicine group as a PhD candidate to study the epigenome dynamics of early human development and the impact of the environment on these processes.

Timeline

2019-2024

2018-2019

2017-2018

2015-2018

2014-2015

2012-2014

PhD student, “epigenome dynamics during early human development” (Maastricht, NL)

Foundation year 2 doctor at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre & General Practice (Oxford, UK)

Foundation year 1 doctor at Milton Keynes University Hospital (Milton Keynes, UK)

BMBS Brighton and Sussex Medical School – clinical training (Brighton, UK)

MRes Maternal and Fetal Health (Manchester, UK)

BMBS Brighton and Sussex Medical School – pre-clinical training (Brighton, UK)

Honors & Awards

2021 Prize for best developmental biology poster (GROW, Maastricht University)
2021 Runner up for the Gedda Prize for best poster at the International Society of Twins Research (ISTS) conference



 

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