profile: j. ramakers, phd
Julian Ramakers has started at 15th of April as a post-doc within
the Nutrigenomics Consortium. She is situated at the department of
Human Biology in Maastricht and will collaborate in WP-E on human
studies, focusing on the intestine. Her project will be based on the
outcomes of the mice studies performed in WP-A.
Julian was born on December 1, 1978, in Sittard. She completed
secondary school at Serviam in Sittard in 1997. In the same year she
started her academic education at the Maastricht University, where
she studied Biological Health Sciences and graduated in 2001. During
her internship in 2001 at the department of General Surgery of the
Maastricht University she studied the role of fibroleukin and
Toll-Like-Receptor (TLR)-9 in experimental colitis. From January
2002 until December 2006 she was appointed as a PhD student at the
department of Human Biology of the Maastricht University. During
this period she conducted both in vitro studies using
intestinal cell lines as well as in vivo studies in animals
to examine the effects of different (food) components (among others
fish oils and b-glucan)
on processes related to intestinal inflammation and to unravel the
(molecular) mechanisms underlying these effects. She also studied
the effects of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) on inflammation
markers in healthy subjects with an increased risk on cardiovascular
diseases.