• Our 2024 newsletter is out!

    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…

  • Postertime at Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting

    Postertime at Amsterdam Neuroscience annual meeting

    It’s Friday the 13th, and our posters are up. As Lucas (Breedt), Lucas (Baudouin), Eva and Mona explain their data, the lights flicker ominously. Someone jokes about ghosts. But the rest of this day was not at all spooky! Special shoutout to Christina Ulrich, who did her internship with Mona and is the second author…

  • Sinterklaas visited MULTINET

    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!

  • Masterclass by Mona, Marike, Linda and Arjan Hillebrand

    Masterclass by Mona, Marike, Linda and Arjan Hillebrand

    “In this masterclass, four experts working with MEG in brain tumor patients will outline the latest insights on the field. Their lecture spans from sharing an overview of what doing MEG in these patients entails, to the broader scientific scope of measuring brain activity in the neuro-oncological setting, to the state-of-the-art application of MEG in…

  • MULTINET shines @ Dies Natalis 2024

    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…

  • Something exciting coming up…

    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…

  • Jantine is now Dr. Röttgering!

    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),…

  • Linda wins an EANO research award!

    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!

  • We are at EANO!

    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…

  • Book chapters galore

    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…