• Marieke conquers the Alpe d’Huez 3 times!

    Marieke conquers the Alpe d’Huez 3 times!

    As a fervent athlete, Marieke set a very ambitious goal this June: to try and go up the Alpe d’Huez as many time as possible in the fundraising event organized by KWF. And after months of training, she managed to go up 3 times!!! We followed (or tried to follow… so many participants!) Marieke on…

  • TN2 was a big success (again)

    TN2 was a big success (again)

    Many of us are part of the Translational Neuroscience Network (TN2) organizing team, and our event on May 28 was another one for the books. Read the full recap on the Amsterdam Neuroscience website!

  • Eva gives a lightning talk at TN2

    Eva gives a lightning talk at TN2

    Eva’s abstract on her computational modeling project was selected for a presentation at the annual Translational Neuroscience Network event! She gave a broad, TED-like talk on how personalizing predictions on the outcomes of surgery is important. “We owe it to patients to give them personal predictions”.

  • The annual CCA retreat

    The annual CCA retreat

    The Cancer Center Amsterdam is one of our communities, as a leading academic oncology center embedded within Amsterdam UMC, where research, patient care, and education are closely integrated. By directly translating scientific insights into clinical practice, we aim to drive innovation and work towards improving outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients with the…

  • Opinion piece on translational medicine

    Opinion piece on translational medicine

    Linda co-wrote an opinion piece for The Transmitter with co-PIs within the TRANSCEND consortium Klaus Eyer and Lara Keuck, shedding some light on why much of the research designed in labs does not make it to clinical care. Read it here! More info on TRANSCEND on the consortium website.

  • New ZonMw open grant for collaboration

    Linda is part of a newly funded project: “Unraveling the neuroplastic effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in Depression”, supported by the ZonMw Open Competition Grant. ECT is one of the most effective, yet least understood, treatments in psychiatry. The versatile project team, consisting of Annemiek Dols, Edwin van Dellen, Philip van Eijndhoven, Dore Loef, Karel…

  • We were at LWNO!

    We were at LWNO!

    The annual scientific meeting of the Dutch association for neuro-oncology is a highlight of our year, in terms of sharing our own research, but also learning about what is happening across The Netherlands. Mona, Eva and Maxine presented their findings this year, and the rest of us enjoyed the other talks and the networking!

  • Rachel & Eva attend workshop @Lorentz center

    Rachel & Eva attend workshop @Lorentz center

    Eva & Rachel had great discussions this week at a workshop on neuroscience and philosophy with experimental and non-experimental neuroscientists, philosophers, and colleagues, at the Lorentz Center. Linda gave a talk in the brains and bodies session. Their key takeaway: the conceptual frameworks we adopt fundamentally shape what becomes an object of scientific inquiry. A…

  • Emma Saxton joins TRANSCEND & MULTINET

    Emma Saxton joins TRANSCEND & MULTINET

    My name is Emma, and I am a PhD candidate in the MULTINET Lab. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the College of Wooster (Ohio, USA). For my honors thesis, I used EEG to investigate how external facial features influence recognition accuracy when viewing same-race and other-race faces. This work…

  • Interview on interactional roles in our interdisciplinary lab meetings

    Marloes (from the Clinical Neuroscience section of our department) and Linda were interviewed by The Transmitter on their collaborative research with Aniek Antvelink, Joyce Lamerichs, Stéphanie van der Burgt, Saskia Peerdeman en Jeroen Geurts. In this work, they identified six roles that members of an interdisciplinary team can take to increase translation or interdisciplinary synergy.…