Kerensa Broersen
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Biography
Kerensa Broersen completed her Doctorate in the field of protein aggregation at Wageningen University in The Netherlands in 2005. After her Post-doctoral study at the MRC-LMB in the UK, she joined the Free University of Brussels (VUB)/Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in 2007. Here, she headed a research team that studied the molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease. This led to the discovery of molecular pathways of a number of risk factors that affect Alzheimer’s disease pathobiology. Subsequently, she joined the Nanobiophysics Group at the University of Twente/MIRA Institute in The Netherlands as an Assistant Professor investigating further the impact of protein structures on human health with her team
Abstract
Abstract : An investigation into amyloid beta peptide variation as Alzheimer’s disease progress