Great turnout for the start of a new season of molecular and cellular neuroscience series ⁦Donders Institute⁩

I am hiring soon (PhD and post-doc) and will be at #SfN23 in November! Ping me to grab a drink and talk about the AIS, our lab, living in The Netherlands, being a parent in academia or anything related to food/wine/cheese!

Open postdoctoral position in my lab: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR…

Registration still available! The 20th International Workshop on Fragile X & Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders November 6th-9th, 2023 Lanier Islands Legacy Lodge, Buford, GA Co-chairs Peng Jin pietro.chiurazzi med.emory.edu/departments/hu…

New manuscript, based on huge effort by our PhD candidate Wouter Steyaert! He built a tool “Chameleolyzer” to better analyze homologous sequences from massive short-read exome data, validated by long-read sequencing. nature.com/articles/s4146…

To all interested in #glia. Announcing the biennial Cold Spring Harbor Glia Meeting in August 2024. Cutting edge science in an inclusive and trainee-driven environment. Apply soon. It fills up fast: meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?…

Sialic acid plays a crucial role in brain development, #learning & #memory. Study shows sialic acid is necessary for network formation during human neuronal development and provides a physiologically relevant model in human iPSC-derived neurons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jn… Synvenio BV

IKCC is really proud to have worked with this outstanding group of young scientists trying to learn what happens to a cell when it loses its antenna, the primary cilium. In the case of the kidney, losing its cilium is the first step to becoming a #KidneyCancer cell. (1/2)

Registration for the Sixth Dutch Neurodevelopmental Disorders Day on March 13, 2024 is now open. Our Keynote speaker this year will be Gaia Novarino (IST Vienna). Attendance for the meeting is FREE and open to all but prior registration is required via: neurodevdisorders.org

Wonderful seminar and visit by ⁦Nael⁩ (with some 💪 as external PhD examiner) ⁦The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)⁩. Nael’s team’s work on modeling NDDs is exciting and inspiring. Thanks to James Ellis for organizing. And bonus time with ⁦Karun K Singh⁩

Together with Annette Schenck we organise the Sixth Dutch Neurodevelopmental Disorders Day on March 13, 2024 in Nijmegen, NL Our Keynote speaker is Gaia Novarino (IST Vienna). Registration is FREE  via neurodevdisorders.org Come and join us!

Very detailed dissection of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Gabriele-de Vries syndrome (associated with YY1 mutations), by Marlene F Pereira Michele Gabriele 🔬🧬📸 Alessandro Vitriolo Giuseppe Testa, based on 2D and 3D patient-derived cell lineages 🧠🧬🧫 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Impressive collection of papers focusing on the human brain 👇👇

Eline van Hugte transformeert cellen uit het bloed van patiënten met Dravet tot hersencellen die ze kweekt op een chip. In haar promotieonderzoek toont ze aan dat ze met deze methode de aard en ernst van deze ziekte beter kan voorspellen. Meer weten? 👇 radboudumc.nl/nieuws/2024/ch…

My PhD work on harnessing the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii for protein delivery to the brain is out in Nature Microbiology ! nature.com/articles/s4156…

📣 Upcoming Webinar Announcement! Join the MxW Webinar, co-hosted with BioLamina, featuring Prof. Dr. Nael from Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands. 🗓️ Wednesday, September 4 🕔 17:00 CEST | 08:00 PDT | 11:00 EDT | 23:00 CST | 00:00 JST Looking forward to

Happy to share our latest work on developing a new platform, MEAseq, integrating transcriptomics and electrophysiolgical readouts to identify druggable pathways. Great work by Anouk Verboven Sofia Puvogel and all other collaborators

Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, a 2023 Science study finds. The results suggest there were only ~1280 breeding individuals during the transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. scim.ag/8hk #ScienceMagArchives