Category: fun
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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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Vera is back from Copenhagen!
She spent 3.5 months with the research group of Karin Piil, Senior Researcher at Copenhagen University Hospital Associate Professor at Aarhus University, where she investigated symptom science among brain tumor patients. Read all about it here!
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Eduarda is a runner-up for trainee OS prize
At the 2023 Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes organized by The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital), Eduarda was recognized “for her constant commitment to open science and the development of tools and tutorials for network neuroscience analysis”! She won a runner-up prize of 1000 CAD in addition to being lauded for her work…
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Mona speaks at DGN conference
Exciting, Mona is one of the invited speakers at the DGN conference in Berlin, Germany. This is the German Neurological Society, and she will be talking about how brain and tumor activity and connectivity are interconnected. More info (in German) here!
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Lab retreat 2023
We had a great time learning about interdisciplinarity, revising our vision, and coming up with new ideas during this year’s lab retreat!
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Eduarda and co at the OSCAwards
Eduarda had the incredible opportunity to mediate part of the OSCAwards ceremony at SPUI25 last January. During the event, she received an award for her master’s thesis work, which won in the ‘Open Educational Resources’ category. Her tutorial project, available online here on GitHub, has gained significant attention and recognition. It was invited to be…
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Lucas and Mona present their first posters!
After starting their PhDs during the pandemic and being virtual for the most part, Lucas and Mona presented their first posters at OHBM 2022 in Glasgow. Look at them glow!
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MuMoBrain project inclusion is a wrap!
Thanks to our amazing team of RA’s, Lucas Breedt, Margot Wagenmakers and Anouk Ticheler, we have now finished inclusion for our MultiModal Brain project! We have collected 35 datasets in healthy subjects, consisting of EEG, MEG, functional and diffusion MRI, MRS, and a neuropsychological assessment. Hope to make this data available for others in the…
Multiscale Network Neuroscience 