Category: news
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Something exciting coming up…
The Vrije Universiteit is turning 144 this year! The big birthday celebration or Dies Natalis has a very MULTINET-adjacent theme, namely embracing complexity. Linda will be having a podcast-like conversation about complexity and the work we do on stage on November 21st! Even better, several MULTINET-ers are part of a multiscale surprise that will happen…
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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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We are at EANO!
Between 17-20 October, we will be in Glasgow for the annual meeting of the European Association for Neuro-Oncology. On Friday right after 1pm (in the plenary session in the Clyde Auditorium), Linda will give a talk on “Multiscale network neuroscience in brain tumor patients”. Also on Friday but at the start of the evening, Marieke…
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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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Iza Oostra joins the lab
My name is Iza, the new research analyst. I recently completed my bachelor’s in Life Sciences, specializing in biology and medical laboratory research. Before starting this project, I gained valuable experience during a one-year internship at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, where I focused on studying neurological processes related to cognitive function and behavior. This experience…
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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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Jantine’s thesis in print!
After four years of hard work, Jantine’s PhD thesis has now taken physical form! She will defend the heavy volume of research, aptly titled “Changing perspectives on fatigue in glioma: from symptom to system to treatment”, on October 25, at 1.45pm at the VU. More info on the event will follow!
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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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