Happy to share our new preprint #LRRK2 regulates dendritic spine dynamics through interaction with post-synaptic actin cytoskeleton biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Thanks Giulia Tombesi for the hard work and all team for the great collaboration (Loukia Parisiadou @GeneStuff and more!)

mRNA transport, translation, and decay in adult mammalian central nervous system axons: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Evolutionarily conserved regulators of tau identify targets for new therapies cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

It's finally out!! I'm so grateful to my mentor Pennuto Lab, @laura_tosatto and all the collaborators who made this possible🙏 This reflects part of my PhD work on a genetic disorder called SBMA, caused by a repeat expansion in androgen receptor gene science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Prof. Emanuela Pasciuto is hiring a postdoc for her brand new lab. jobs.vib.be/j/55076/postdo…

Happy to announce the launch of the Leuven Center of ALS! Join us for a day of interesting lectures and networking. #ALSresearch #MNDresearch #ALS #LEUCALS #LVDBLab

🚨Do you have experience in high-resolution imaging and/or proteomics in neurodegeneration? Are you close to finishing your PhD or current contract? 2wks left to apply for a 2yr PostDoc position in our lab, focused on synapses and TDP-43 in ALS. jobs.ac.uk/job/DBM320/pos…

📣 We're #hiring! Our #PhD Call 2024 is officially open 👩‍💻 👉 Looking for candidates who are creative, ambitious, highly motivated, and enthusiastic about #neuroscience! 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2024 📝 Interviews: May/June 2024 in #Leuven #Belgium 🔗 vib.be/cbdphdcall

Thanks Muscular Dystrophy Association for the funding!! Exciting times ahead✨✨🧬🔬 looking forward to explore what is going on in mutant FUS NMJs

🎉 More congratulations are in order for Céline Vrancx, Pegah Masrori, Marieke Hoekstra and Diana Piol who have received grants to fund their #research at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research! 🚀

A big thank you to the organizers for orchestrating a successful ALS Symposium! 🌟 The rich program, productive meetings, and newfound collaborations made it a truly impactful event. Kudos! 🙌 #alsmndsymp

📣👏 Sandrine Da Cruz and collaborators received the Lalji & Family ALS Endowed Award for Innovative Healing (Healey Center for ALS, MassGeneral News) for the development of a therapy targeting FUS in people living with #ALS ➡️ cbd.sites.vib.be/en#/news/Makin…

The latest publication as part of our 'ALS: Challenges and New Advances' review series! Find all the exciting reviews in this series here: bit.ly/3WHZ2dC

Vandaag vond de #LEUCALS 2024 Meeting plaats. ALS Liga selecteerde er de winnaars voor de beste presentatie en de beste poster. Proficiat Lenja De Cock van Lab Neurobiologie (Ludo Van Den Bosch) en Diana Piol van Lab Neurofysiologie in Neurodegeneratieve Ziekten (Sandrine Da Cruz)!

Thank you so much ALS Liga - Ligue SLA for the best poster prize at the Leuven center for ALS (LEUCALS) meeting! Our spatial omics approach shed light on the local molecular dysregulations in axons and NMJs! More details to come soon✨

🚨📅 Save the Date for the iPSC Modelling in Neuromuscular Disorders (iMND) conference on 23-25 October organized by members of the Ludo Van Den Bosch and Sandrine Da Cruz labs at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research × @VIBConferences! Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/iMND2024

🔎Check out our new paper: "Frontotemporal dementia-like disease progression elicited by seeded aggregation and spread of FUS" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new publication on an in vivo model of seeded aggregation and spreading of FUS pathology 💪👏 Molecular Neurodegeneration

🔬🧠 We're hiring!! Research associate opportunity @dsb_unipd Pennuto Lab Deadline: *10th January 2025* #MotorNeuronDiseases #LocalTranslation #SpatialOmics