Ellender lab is en route to FENS2026! Looking forward to catching up with everyone 👉 check out our posters for Wednesday AM: PS03-08AM-376 EFFECTS OF PRENATAL EXPOSURE... PS03-08AM-375 ULTRASONIC VOCALISATIONS IN... PS03-08AM-374 INVESTIGATING CELLULAR AND CIRCUIT... #FENS2026 #BSN #UAntwerpen

📢 #jobopportunity 📢 Interested in brain development? Come join our labs in beautiful Antwerpen! We have a #vacancy for a 4-year fully funded PhD position investigating huntingtin's role in brain development 🧠. For info ℹ and procedure: 👉 tinyurl.com/3598f3f3 📅 Application #deadline: 02 July 2026

Lots of exciting plans were discussed with the junior & senior board of Belgian Society for Neuroscience last week in Brussel and are in the works for next year’s meeting. More news coming after FENS! Not a member yet? 👉https://belgianneuroscience.be/membership/ #BSN #FENS #BrainBee

Interested in where the neuromodulator histamine in the developing brain comes from? 🔗 Read our new full paper (early release): tinyurl.com/bdfchb53 🙌 Congrats to Ricardo and the whole team for all the hard work?! #Neuroscience #Histamine #Striatum#TouretteSyndrome #OCD #JournalOfNeuroscience

Histamine originating from the BNST modulates corticostriatal synaptic transmission during early postnatal development

The neuromodulator histamine regulates key processes in many circuits of the adult and developing brain, including striatum. However, striatal innervation by histaminergic afferents is very sparse mak...

tinyurl.com

🚀 The Experimental Neurobiology Unit at the University of Antwerp is open to host MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 applicants (deadline 09/09/2026). Interested in computational neurology, neuronal circuit physiology, neurochemistry and animal behaviour? Get in touch with us!: tinyurl.com/38yp2cry

Happy birthday cake from master student - every star is one for the significance level he hopes to get for his data (to be collected)!

A warm welcome Zoë van Acker and our new master students Alexander Torfs and Liam Downs who recently joined the ENU lab on a cold campus!

The MSc in Neuroscience students (www.uantwerpen.be/en/study/pro...) visited the lab to observe patch clamping and learned the art of the gigaseal!

Check out our pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Explored whether mast cells could provide a source of histamine in the developing basal ganglia but found them by the hippocampus instead! Here preliminary data would suggest they could impact synapses independently of histamine.

Lots of super (neuro-)science talks and posters in last few weeks - from early neurodevelopment (tinyurl.com/4yv59bsj) to anual BSN meeting in Brussel (belgianneuroscience.be) to our faculty research day (tinyurl.com/42srs292) in Antwerpen!

Looking for a postdoc? Join us (tinyurl.com/22xrzaz4) and come to beautiful Antwerpen! We have projects ranging from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration. Many funding streams available including Marie Curie Actions which closes 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Also check out the upcoming Belgian Society for Neuroscience @belgianneuro.bsky.social‬ meeting in Leuven on the 20th of October this year belgianneuroscience.be/16th-meeting.... ☝️ Abstract submissions and registrations just opened this month.

Great sessions at the Neuroday 2025 @ University of Antwerpen and congrats to Noor for winning best poster prize!

Join our Experimental Neurobiology Unit (www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-...) and come to Antwerpen! We have multiple projects ongoing ranging from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration. If interested please reach out ☝️

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Great to see this out and with a small contribution from our lab

Jolien Perneel@jolienperneel.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm happy to share that our paper describing our novel TMEM106B overexpression mouse model is now out in Molecular Neurodegeneration 🧠📝. It’s been a project with highs and lows, and seeing it published is incredibly rewarding. Thanks to everyone who was part of the journey 🙌.

📣 Still time to apply for our Ma in Neuroscience programme (deadline 1st of June)! Kickstart your Neuroscience career at one of top universities of Belgium. 👉 Apply now: www.uantwerpen.be/en/study/adm... Checkout for more details: www.uantwerpen.be/en/study/pro...

#worldautismday www.un.org/en/observanc... autismevlaanderen.be/autisme

World Autism Awareness Day - EN | United Nations

In recent years, major progress has been made in increasing awareness and acceptance of autism, not least thanks to the many amazing autistic advocates who have worked tirelessly to bring the lived ex...

un.org

Meeting the person you suspect is reviewer #2 in a conference

🌐 Connect with us to stay updated on upcoming events, latest advancements, and opportunities. Visit our website BelgianNeuroscience.be to learn more about our mission, and how you can get involved. #BelgianNeuroscience #NeuroscienceResearch #Neuroscience #BSN 🧠

Well done on passing your DPhil viva with minor corrections (nearly officially Dr.) Macey-Dare - and thanks to both examiners!

Fun Christmas celebrations with our group last week in Antwerpen!

The lab is making the transition from Twitter (x.com/TommasEllend... bear with...