Joshua Obermayer and Tim Heistek publish their study on cholinergic regulation of lateral inhibition in human and mouse cortex in Nature Communications

On Oct. 13, the 1st STXBP1 Patient Clinic Day will take place at VUmc in Amsterdam. The day is part of our studies on STXBP1-Encephalopathy (STXBP1-E) in a collaboration between FGA-CNCR, Clinical Genetics and VU spin-off company NBT Analytics.

PhD student Christiaan de Leeuw (CNCR-CTG) has developed an important new tool for advanced gene-set analyses, published in Nature Communications this week

PhD student Javier Emperador Melero (CNCR-FGA) published his study on the role of retrograde trafficking, Golgi export and regulated secretion in Nature Communications this month. Javier is now on his way to his new job at Harvard University.

Former PhD student Nikhil Pandya from the teams of Spijker, Li and Smit publishes on the role of the AMPA receptor auxiliary subunit Noelin1

An international research team led by Professor Danielle Posthuma (VU / VUmc) has identified the genes, brain areas and cell types that are important in intelligence and neuroticism. Both studies were published June 25, 2018 in Nature Genetics.

At the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (DNM), PhD student Kevin Batenburg won the poster prize for his poster on the development of a human three-dimensional screening platform of tau pathology.

Rewarded for the Science Translational Medicine paper (Riga et al 2017) on the role of ECM in cognitive deficits in a rat depression model

Mariana Matos received a poster prize at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting (DNM).

Causes and consequences of disturbed brain ion and water homeostasis in the white matter disease MLC