Category: people
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MULTINET heidag 2025
Every year, we take some time to reflect and relax at a nice location, to boost the energy, collaboration, fun! This year, we went to Jongwijs in Westzaan, and discussed our team culture and personalities, our problem solving styles and how we can use the different viewpoints and skills in the team even better than…
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Dorien receives new grant
In the pursuit of improvements in early cancer detection, better diagnostic methods, and more effective treatments, the Cancer Center Amsterdam Foundation annually grants funding to jump-start promising early-stage research projects at Cancer Center Amsterdam. And Dorien received one of them! Her project is entitled “Mapping the functional anatomy of the tumor-brain interface to discover novel treatment…
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Dorien at TN2 event
Dorien saved the day and joined the already lovely speaker line-up of this year’s first Translational Neuroscience Network (TN2) seminar! The event was about Heterogeneity in Psychiatry, and finding unity in uniqueness. Dorien was a last-minute replacement of a speaker who could not make it. She spoke about her PhD research on the role of…
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Our 2024 newsletter is out!
It’s become a tradition: listing all of our successes, fails, new insights, project updates, social outings, and bloopers in a yearly newsletter! We highlight the lab’s progress and activities in multiscale network neuroscience. Key updates from 2024 include ongoing research on glioma-related brain network dynamics, new projects like ChemoBrain and FeelFit, and advancements in studies…
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Sinterklaas visited MULTINET
Or rather, we visited Dorien’s beautiful house and celebrated the Sinterklaas holiday with a feast including delicious homemade food, some bubbles, and a gift-and-complement game!
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MULTINET shines @ Dies Natalis 2024
VU Amsterdam celebrated its 144th birthday on November 21! During the festive celebration, Linda got to engage in a live podcast recording with Sem Barendse on stage. They discussed ways in which they embrace complexity, and allow for collaboration and teamwork in their daily practice. The podcast can be found here on Spotify. Linda illustrated…
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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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