Marieke Meijer receives VENI grant
NWO has awarded Dr. Marieke Meijer (FGA) with a Veni grant of 250.000 euro to conduct her research on synaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
New study on synapse development published in EMBO J
In this study Marinka Brouwer (FGA) shows that adhesion molecule SALM1 binds an intracellular protein complex via one domain and organizes synapse development via another. The study was a collaboration between FGA and MCN.
Memorabel career development grant (3 years) for Femke Feringa
Femke Feringa (FGA) did her PhD in cancer research but decided to switch to neurodegeneration and study why genes involved in immune responses and cholesterol metabolism are among the strongest associations with Alzheimer’s disease.
STXBP1 team attends first SIFM meeting in Philadelphia, USA
Dr. Mala Misra-Isrie and PhD students Annemiek van Berkel and Hanna Lammertse were given the opportunity to attend and present their work at the first STXBP1 Investigators and Family Meeting.
CNCR founding father prof. dr. Wijnand Geraerts dies at age 77
Wijnand Geraerts, biologist by training, designed CNCR together with Menno Witter and Dorret Boomsma, promoting groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research and bringing scientists with different backgrounds together within CNCR.
BECAUSE team wins poster prize at Dutch Neuroscience Meeting
Ricarda Weiland and Maaike van Boven received a prize for best poster at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting 2019. In their winning poster they presented their first results in the BECAUSE project, in which they investigate mechanisms involved in sensory sensitivity in people with autism.
Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) grant for CNCR teams
Together with clinicians and researchers from Utrecht, Nijmegen and Twente, CNCR researchers Verhage, Cornelisse, Meijer (FGA) and Linkenkaer-Hansen (INF) received a €1,8M grant to improve personalized medicine for children with autism.
SYNGO 1.0 is live! First paper published June 5th
The SYNGO Consortium, coordinated by CNCR scientists Frank Koopmans, Guus Smit and Matthijs Verhage, release the first deep annotation of synaptic genes and publish 1st paper in Neuron
New insights into the function of the neuronal antenna
Dr. Cillian King, Ana Rita Quadros and colleagues published their work on the modulation of cilia structure in the brain in Scientific Reports
Novel method to assess synapse function in single human neurons
Dr. Marieke Meijer and a team of FGA/CNCR researchers, together with iPSC-experts from the University of Bonn, published a novel method to study synapse formation and function in individual iPSC-derived human neurons in Cell Reports.