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🚀New paper by Madhur Bain Singh on smoking & DNA methylation via twin-based MR using Netherlands Twin Register data! Supervised by Michael C Neale, Jenny van Dongen, & Conor Dolan. Co-authors: Dr. Rosie, Dana Lapato, Charles Breeze, gibran hemani, Hermine Maes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s10654…

This month in the BioPsy department… We had a new session of the #BioPsyColloquia, with a guest speaker on a very interesting topic! Athina Vidaki from Maastricht University presented on “Forensic epigenomics: Can DNA methylation solve crimes?”. Thank you for joining us!

About publications… exciting new findings from our colleague Anne Landvreugd reveal that social jetlag has little impact on happiness! A fresh perspective on sleep-wake rhythms and wellbeing. Check out the press release for details. #ScienceForThePeople vu.nl/en/news/2025/s…

📢ICYM: At the Stress in Action Stress-NL symposium held on Jan 30 2025! Eco de Geus presented on the effects of fitness training on physiological stress-reactivity

We’ve been celebrating several PhD defenses lately! 🎓On February 5th, Dr. Susanne Bruins successfully defended her thesis "Best of Both Worlds." Congratulations on this great achievement! 👏 #PhDDefense #AcademicLife #Methods

This past Monday, Dr. Bodine Gonngrijp successfully defended her PhD thesis "Invisible Scars: Unravelling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization." Congratulations on this important milestone! 👏 #PhDDefense #Research #Epigenetics

Yesterday, Dr. Hekmat Alrouh defended his PhD thesis "Child Development and Mental Health." Congratulations on this amazing achievement! 🎉 #PhDDefense #ChildDevelopment #MentalHealth #Research

On March 18th, we had another great session of the BioPsy colloquia. Dave Leitritz presented “Combining Longitudinal Change Features of Childhood Psychopathology with PRS in Multimodal Prediction Models of Adult Wellbeing.” Thanks, Dave, for sharing this fascinating project!

Our second speaker at the BioPsy colloquia was Anne van den Maagdenberg, who gave an insightful talk on Open Access at the VU. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge, Anne! 🙏 #OpenAccess #Research #BioPsy #VU

This month, our PhD students visited Boulder to attend the ISG workshop! Here are some pictures of them, also with their posters at the event. 📸✨ #ISGWorkshop #PhDStudents #Research #AcademicLife

Three of our PhD students had the opportunity to present at a seminar at the CREATE Center, University of Oslo. Great to see their hard work shared with such a fantastic audience! 👏 #PhDStudents #CREATECenter #UniversityOfOslo #Research

New BioPsy papers were published lately too. Interesting new research from a former student Pedro and colleagues: we've found that the way our brain ages is linked to how our blood ages and environmental factors play an important role in this process. doi.org/10.1093/brain/…

A small step towards understanding the biology of wellbeing! 🧬In our latest study, team wellbeing looked at blood metabolites and found hints that lipid metabolism might play a role in how we feel. Lots more to explore, but an interesting lead. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our new study in molecularpsychiatry, in 1528 children and their parents (Netherlands Twin Register ) shows that indirect genetic effects—where parental genetics shape offspring traits via environmental influences (genetic nurture)—impact DNA methylation of children. doi.org/10.1038/s41380… (1/5)