Yesterday Science published a special issue on the brain “the Brain cell census” including some great contributions by BRAINSCAPES groups at the VU (Mansvelder) and LUMC (Lelieveldt). Congrats!!! science.org/toc/science/cu….

This week we had a great Career and Training afternoon with our PhD and Postdoc students at UMC Utrecht. We had presentations and discussions about project management, integrity, international internships and funding. Here an impression of the afternoon!

Just published on our website: how joining forces for science can truly help to make a huge step forward! brainscapes.nl/news/about-the…

We are recruiting a PhD student embedded in Frank Meye's and my lab to search for cell types critical for the function of Brains reward system and relevant to psychiatric disorders. If you are passionate about #science, ePhys and molecular work, apply! translationalneuroscience.nl/phd-student-po…

Super proud of this collaboration with Camiel Mannens Sten Linnarsson who created a map of chromatin accessibility during early embryonic development. Exciting resource for genetics people! Thanks to Marijn Schipper from #ctglab for being part of this. See: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to BRAINSCAPES PI Danielle and Marijn Schipper for their co-publication in Nature! They collaborated with Camiel Mannens and Sten Linnarsson who created a chromatin accessibility map during early embrionic human neurodevelopment. See: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Proud of BRAINSCAPES PhD student Lieke Michielsen who is defending her (wonderful) thesis today!

BRAINSCAPES at the Beach! One two sunny days in Egmond aan Zee, Timo Verlaan, Gerard Bouland and Kirti Biharie shine at the #BioSB2024 meeting with three wonderful presentations. Well done!

And the winner is ... Bernardo Maciel who last week won the Poster Prize at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting. Congratulations and well deserved!! Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)

A great summer-school on neural circuit development and plasticity is on it's way!

Important work on dopaminergic system development just published in Nature Communications. Congrats to @oxana_garritsen and @JeroenPasterk!

Yesterday Ingo Willuhn had his inaugural lecture at the beautiful Luterse Kerk in Amsterdam. On behalf of the BRAINSCAPES consortium congratulations to you and the WilluhnLab lab!

During our annual meeting in Utrecht (last Monday) it was great to seeing how the excellent science that is performed by the different teams is integrating more and more into each other. It shows the ability to achieve exceptional things that couldn't be done just by ourselves 💪

16:30 - poster F93 by first year PhD student in our BRAINSCAPES project: Zeli Chen: "Prioritizing Candidate Genes in Genomic Risk Loci for Alcohol-Related Behavior with Functional and Statistical Fine-Mapping" She is an ECIP travel awardee!

Excellent lecture yesterday by Hagen Tilgner / @[email protected] at LUMC Leiden on single-cell isoforms in time and space. With great artwork by Luisa Lente!

Yesterday the institute for Chemical NeuroScience (iCNS) officially kicked-off in Amsterdam. Proud of Ahmed Mahfouz who is co-lead of WP3. We wish him and the iCNS consortium all the best and many novel exciting findings in the coming years!

The Amsterdam Neuroscience meeting at the RAI was a fantastic day ... and full of BRAINSCAPES colours. A big thanks and applaus to the organization and those who participated!

More exciting news from the Amsterdam Neuroscience meeting: PhD candidate Pelle Wilbers from VU won the posterprize. Woo!!! 👏👏👏

We are incredibly proud of our former trainee Lieke Michielsen for receiving the prestigious BioSB Young Investigator Award 2025! She will deliver a honorary lecture at the BioSB Conference on May 21st! 👏 🏆 🧠 aanmelder.nl/biosb2025/youn…

#ctglab is hiring! We have #vacancies! 2 PhD and 2 postdoc positions, in #statistical #genetics and/or #bioinformatics - if you like GWAS, method development and linking with biology - check these out 👇 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/two-… werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/post… werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/post…