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Funding for research into Multiple sclerosis.20 Jul. 2018Researchers Prof. dr. Bart Eggen, dr. Wia Baron and colleagues have received two grants worth 160,000 euros for further research into Multiple sclerosis (MS). Professor Eggen received from the Stichting MS Research 60,000 euro for a pilot. With the help of new analysis techniques in the field of gen
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Junior anatomist day 201810 Jul. 2018On Thursday June 28,the Section of Anatomy organized the junior anatomist day. This is an annual meeting where one of the Anatomy institutes of the Netherlands or Flanders opens its doors for its colleagues. This year we were delighted to welcome 42 anatomists, prosectors and participants otherwis
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Theis defence Xiaoming Zhang11 Jun. 2018On the May 30 2018 Xiaming Zhang also defended his thesis The blueprint of microglia: Epigenetic regulation of microglia phenotypes in front of a diffrent committee of established researchers and was also awarded with the doctor’s title.
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Thesis defence Thaiany Quevedo Melo11 Jun. 2018On the 18th of April 2018 Thaiany Quevedo Melo defended her thesis Pathogenicity of alpha-synuclein in various cell models for Parkinson’s disease in front of a committee of established researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. For former labmember and projectleader Dr. Sjef Copray t
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for Marie-José van Tol23 May. 2018Marie-José van Tol has been awarded with the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2018 in the category Social Sciences. According to the jury she is a talented, creative and driven scientist whose research combines multiple methods from different fields like clinical psychiatry, neuropsychology, cogniti
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Royal Mind Tricks23 Apr. 2018Did you know that your senses can fool you, big time? And that the world around you kind of disappears when you’re whatsapping? With even the slightest distraction, you can even miss an elephant standing right in front of you! Come visit our Royal Psychological Lab and dare to lose control over yo
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Microglia in the news.05 Apr. 2018During the last few weeks, microglia made the headlines a number of times in national and international press. It started with the publication of a research paper: Low-Fat Diet with Caloric Restriction Reduces White Matter Microglia Activation during Aging by Zhuoran Yin and colleagues (a former PhD
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Thesis defence Arun Thiruvalluvan26 Mar. 2018On February 26 2018, Arun Thiruvalluvan successfully defended his dissertation titled Induced pluripotent stem cells: cell therapy and disease modeling. He was supervised by Prof. Dr. Erik Boddeke and Dr. Sjef Copray. He continues working on stemcells at the ERIBA iPSC/CRISPR Facility.
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Anatomy receives 220,000 euro from the Samenwerkingsverband Noord Nederland for further development of virtual dissection room20 Sep. 2017The development and use of digital resources is rapidly increasing throughout society. This also applies to education. New visualization technologies such as augmented Reality (AR) and virtual Reality (VR) will play a major role in society in the near future, and this will include the domains of ins
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Thesis defence Shankar Tumati15 Sep. 2017On September 11th 2017, Shankar Tumati successfully defended his dissertation titled “On the neural mechanisms of reduced behavior in people with cognitive decline“. He was supervised by André Aleman (Department of Neurosciences, section Cognitive Neuropsychiatry) and Peter De Deyn (Dep