Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
My name is Joyce Meesters-Ensing, and I'm a PhD-candidate in the group of Stefan Nierkens at the Princes Maxima Center (Utrecht, The Netherlands). Our group is focussed on immune reconstitution after HSCT, CART-cells and immune monitoring in pediatric oncology. My specific focus is to monitor the immune landscape of children suffering from high grade brain tumors. I use spectral flow cytometry to identify the different immune subsets in a variety of patient materials (blood, bone marrow, CSF, tumor), and to get information on immune status of these cells (using markers for activation, proliferation, cytotoxicity and checkpoints).