Category: fun
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Jantine is now Dr. Röttgering!
On Friday, October 25th, Jantine successfully and colorfully defended her thesis “Changing perspectives on fatigue in glioma: from symptom to system to treatment”. She held a wonderful laymen’s talk, and then exchanged thoughts with a critical yet creative panel of opponents, namely Jeff Wefel (who came all the way from Houston for this exciting event),…
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Linda wins an EANO research award!
She received the EANO Nurse and Allied Health Professionals Research award “for her outstanding research and publications in neuro-oncology”, and gave a plenary talk right after. Yay for multiscale network neuroscience, and the entire team!
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Book chapters galore
Maxine and Dorien both wrote book chapters that are now out! Maxine wrote the chapter “Neurocognitive functioning: from brain structures to networks” with Linda, Philip de Witt Hamer en Martin Klein. The chapter is part of the book “Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Foundations of Neuro-Oncology“. Dorien’s chapter is “Multimodal imaging of brain plasticity” in “The Oxford…
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Rachel Smith joins MULTINET
I’m Rachel and I’m a PhD candidate with a background in cognitive neurobiology. During my Master’s degree, I spent a lot of time in the lab studying the neurobiological basis of complex behaviours, such as learning and memory, by directly recording neuronal activity in awake, behaving animals. I loved this work and found it fascinating,…
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We are ON against cancer!
Dorien, Marike and Linda were in Hilversum to attend a live show organised by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF kankerbestrijding), themed “Everyone ON against cancer”! As brain tumor researchers, we are working against cancer every day, with the entire MULTINET team and many other colleagues from Amsterdam UMC and beyond. It is great that KWF…
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Many thanks to all interns of this year!
As this academic year comes to a close, we gladly thank the interns that worked with us in the past months. Here’s an overview of their final project presentations. Esmee Rozemeijer left us a little bit earlier (in May), thanks to you as well, Esmee! Naz Simsek: Pim Schouten: Ella van Vondelen: Ruxandra Coman: Juliette…
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We are at the CCA annual retreat
Every year, all the people of Cancer Center Amsterdam retreat to a hotel in Noordwijkerhout to connect! This year, Maxine and Marieke presented the study set-up of their RCTs, which we call TRUE-GRIT (rTMS for cognitive complaints) and FeelFit (HIIT to improve subjective physical fitness). Vera had an oral presentation, on her multinational research into…
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Lucas’ talk at #DNM24
Lucas presented at the Dutch Neuroscience Meeting in Tiel, on “Using patient-specific multiscale imaging to elucidate the role of oligodendroglial abnormalities in cognitive impairment in glioma”. Here he is with the other speakers in his session!
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“Invisible Loss” @ Beautiful distress
“The Beautiful Distress Foundation uses art to increase understanding and compassion for people dealing with mental vulnerabilities. Art appeals to our senses and reason, can make us look at things in a different way and can make us aware of our own prejudices.” We went to their current exposition on “Onzichtbaar Verlies”, which is about…
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Freek Linders
My name is Freek, and in April 2024, I started as a PhD candidate. I have a background in psychobiology (bachelor’s, UvA), but driven by my clinical interests, I decided to pursue a combined clinical and research master’s in neuropsychology (VU). The overall aim of my PhD project is to characterize cognitive and daily life…
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