Biology and MBLS students at Beta faculty
If you study Biology or MBLS at the Beta Faculty and want to do your BSc Thesis and Research Project at Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, you can of course do so. Please note that for Biology students we only offer places for the Graduation Project, B-B3AFSTP, we do NOT offer places for the extended internship B-B3-PLONS.
Undergraduate internships in our department are mainly organized in P4. We have a few places outside P4: with Florian Berger, Ihor Smal (experience with programming is required here) and the Research Hub (see below).
In groups of 3 or 4 students, you will conduct experiments with a researcher from the department. You will individually write your project report, which combines the practical component and literature research.
For a thesis/internship placement, we assume a thinking and knowledge level of Molecular Cell Research (B-B3MCR18), or of the course Research Design and Analysis (B-B3RDA21). This can be done by attending one of these courses (preferably) or by demonstrating that it has been achieved by other means. However, having taken this course does not guarantee an internship position because the number of available internship spots in the department is smaller than the number of spots in the course.
If you would like to do your thesis + internship in period 4, please register by sending an email to BScCelbio@uu.nl, with the following information:
-Name and student number
-Which study are you following (Biology/MBLS)?
-Which year 2 and year 3 courses relevant to your internship at CNB have you taken/are you planning to take.
Also indicate a top 6 of research leaders where you would like to do your internship (see the list below). We try to take that into account when allocating. We take the date of application into account when placing you. In other words, if you apply earlier, you are more likely to be placed with the desired group.
After application, we will let you know whether you meet the entry requirements and whether there is still room in our division. It may take several months before the exact group will be known. During quarter 3 we will make a classification, you will hear in which research group you will be definitively placed and who your fellow students are.
Research Hub
The Research Hub is run by Sabrina Oliveira, but involves a different research leader each quarter, who is not necessarily from Cell Biology. There, you work together with several students from the Chemistry, Biology, MBLS and Pharmacy program, with a maximum of 4 students per study program.
For more information about the Research Hub and the various topics per period, see: Projects – Biotechnology Student Research Hub – Utrecht University. To register with the Research Hub, send an email to s.oliveira@uu.nl, with Bsccelbio@uu.nl in the CC.
Of course, you can also look for a place outside the Biology department. Teachers from CNB can often act as the UU examiner and 2nd assessor. To do this, approach a research group yourself and contact BScCelbio@uu.nl. Of course, this applies to every period.
You can always ask for further information via BScCelbio@uu.nl.
Finally, Cell Biology is also studied in other divisions of Biology, such as Microbiology, Genome Biology and Epigenetics, Translational Plant Biology and Plant Stress Resilience.
Internships 2026-2027
Registration for internships in P4 will start at September 1st, 2026.
Please note we have only places in the groups of:
Anna Akhmanova
Lukas Kapitein
Ginny Farias
Agathe Chaigne
Martin Harterink
Frederik Verweij
Maarten Kole
Florian Berger (also in P1,P2, P3)
Ihor Smal (also in P1, P2, P3)
Other groups on this website (Anne Rios, Casper Hoogenraad & Sabrina Oliveira-other than the Research Hub) will not host Bachelor internships. There are no more places in the groups of Emmanuel Marquez-Lagorereta & Ting-Feng Lin.
Applications containing any of the names will not be taken seriously.