📢 #Call for #Papers: #Neuroinflammation: From #Immunity to #Disease Prof. Lidia Yshii (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) will guest edit this exciting special issue for #Genes & #Immunity @springernature.com! 👉 Check it out: www.nature.com/collections/... @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social

We had an amazing weekend at Dag van het Brein in Leuven. 12 LBI members volunteered and gave workshops like painting brains for kids 🧠 stay tuned for more pics #brainawarenessweek @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social

Thanks a lot to Naomi Carpentier and Kato Berebrouckx for being my #scicomm sidekicks! #BAW #BAW2026 #FENS #Scienceville #Docville @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social

Planning to do #symptom_provocation research in patients with an #anxiety_disorder, #OCD or #PTSD? This paper is your first stop! Very proud to share Xena Serifova's newest paper in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social! 🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social

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What happens when brilliant minds leave the lab & step onto the stage? 🧠 𝓑𝓻𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓲𝓭, the fundraising event for brain research in Leuven 🎉 We have curated a unique program blending science & entertainment 🎶 More info 👇🏻 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @uzleuven.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social

Wat gebeurt er wanneer briljante geesten het lab verlaten en het podium betreden? 🧠 𝓑𝓻𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓳𝓷 hét fundraising event over hersenonderzoek in Leuven 🎉 We stelden voor de 3e x een uniek programma samen met een mix van wetenschap & entertainment 🎶 Ontdek het hier👇🏻 #fundraiser #hersenonderzoek

Happy to share that our shared first-author paper with @febedemeyer.bsky.social is now published open access in @jcgntn.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4bt2D8Q We developed and administered an open-source cognitive control test battery with often used tasks (bit.ly/4ql9gyP) in 247 students. Key insights in 🧵

'The curious case of a heterozygous loss-of-function #PSEN1 variant associated with early-onset #AlzheimersDisease' Inmaculada Sanjuan-Ruiz, Lutgarde Serneels, Katleen Craessaerts...Bart De Strooper @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @viblifesciences.bsky.social bit.ly/3L0QhK6

The curious case of a heterozygous loss-of-function PSEN1 variant associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease - Molecular Neurodegeneration Advances

Background Over 300 mutations in PSEN1 have been identified as causes of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD). While these include missense mutations and a few insertions, deletions, or duplications...

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🌟 Congratulations to the laureates of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neuroscience scientific awards, which include two researchers from our Center! Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the ‪@eraneuron.bsky.social‬ MINERVA consortium on microglia/neuron crosstalk in autism – @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social‬, with amazing collaborators: Tarja Malm, Carsten Culmsee, Judith Alferink, Laura Ricceri! Exciting meeting @unimarburg.bsky.social!

Glad to see our new paper finally out! We show how the GPR158 receptor controls synapse maturation and function by silencing an intrinsic inhibitory mechanism. authors.elsevier.com/a/1l7HS5Sx5g... Work from Ben Verpoort and colleagues, with special thanks to our collaborators.

📃🥳 Proud to share the latest research from our lab! Yanmei and colleagues used high-throughput screening and parallel metabolic engineering to optimize S. cerevisiae chassis strains for the production of limonene 🍋. You can read all about it here 👇: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond CEN.PK - parallel engineering of selected S. cerevisiae strains reveals that superior chassis strains require different engineering approaches for limonene production

Genetically engineered microbes are increasingly utilized to produce a broad range of high-value compounds. However, most studies start with only a ve…

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❤️ Verliefdheid vergelijkbaar met dopinggebruik, commentaar door LBI lid professor biologische psychologie Rudi D'Hooge. 🚗 “Eigenlijk kan je het vergelijken met een nieuwe auto kopen, elke keer als je erin stapt, ben je gelukkig. Maar een jaar later is dat al een oude auto.” @biopsylbp.bsky.social

⚡ This #TechnologyTuesday, we're being taken around the VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven with Bart Ghesquière, Camila Cologna and Pedro Magalhães! ✨ #metabolomics #proteomics #massspectrometry #biology #neuroscience #brain #research www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZuA...

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Congrats on this milestone Dr Crotti 👏

Monica Crotti@monicacrotti.bsky.social · last yr.

PhDone! 🎓🧠 Last week, I defended my PhD in Biomedical Sciences at KU Leuven. Over the past four years, we explored visual impairment in children with unilateral cerebral palsy, from a functional to a neurological perspective. If you are curious to know more, do not hesitate to contact me! #PhD

📣 Scientists led by Sandrine Da Cruz have successfully seeded the accumulation of TDP-43—a hallmark of ALS and frontotemporal dementia—using lab-engineered protein fragments 🧠🔬 Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

🚨Paper alert!!🚨 Excited to share out latest research where we investigated avoidance, fear generalization and extinction learning using a modified platform-mediated avoidance procedure in male and female rats. rdcu.be/eesmc

Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats

Scientific Reports - Generalization and extinction of platform-mediated avoidance in male and female rats

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Het Leuvense biotechbedrijf Augustine Therapeutics heeft bij een kapitaalronde 77,7 miljoen euro opgehaald. LBI leden prof Ludo Van Den Bosch & dr @robertprior.bsky.social (@cbdresearch.bsky.social) geven duiding bij dit belangrijke en hoopvolle nieuws dat extra zuurstof geeft aan het onderzoek.

BEKIJK - Biotechbedrijf Augustine Therapeutics haalt 77,7 miljoen euro op - Trends Kanaal Z

Het Leuvense biotechbedrijf Augustine Therapeutics heeft bij een kapitaalronde 77,7 miljoen euro opgehaald. Het verse kapitaal gaat naar onderzoek voor de

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De Tijd@tijd.be · 2y ago

Patiënt-onderzoeker achter Augustine Therapeutics: ‘Artsen zeiden dat er geen behandeling mogelijk was. Daar nam ik geen vrede mee’

🧠 On 19 March, Paris Brain Institute hosted the meeting of the CURE-ND 2025 alliance, bringing together the heads of the 4 partner institutions (@dzne.science, Mission Lucidity at @leuvenbrainins.bsky.social ky.social, @ukdri.ac.uk, PBI) to drive advances in research into neurodegenerative diseases.

⚡ It's #TechnologyTuesday, and to kick-start the series we have a tour of the VIB Bioimaging Core by Pablo Hernández-Varas! 🔬 (1/4) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUy...

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💙 Leuven Brain Institute and its members support World Down Syndrome Day today 💛 #brainresearch #neuroscience #leuvenbraininstitute

🧠 #BrainAwarenessWeek aan het #LeuvenBrainInstitute 💡Gisteren werden leerlingen van het Sint-Pieterscollege Leuven ondergedompeld in de wondere wereld van het brein 🔬Lezingen door @lucasmergan.bsky.social & @eliskbv.bsky.social, demo’s door @cbdresearch.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Mooi nieuws op Dag Zeldzame Ziekten: LBI bestuurslid prof Patrik Verstreken krijgt dit jaar de Prijs Generet voor zeldzame ziekten van de Koning Boudewijn Stichting 🏆 Bekijk de infofilm hier images.app.goo.gl/xZ9z9187JH7m... Of lees erover hier kbs-frb.be/nl/1-miljoen... @cbdresearch.bsky.social

De voorbije maand was heel druk met oa de lancering van het nieuwe Leuven Childhood Epilepsy Center 💓 en tijdens het weekend zetten maar liefst 20 onderzoeksgroepen en labo’s hun deuren open voor Insight / Inside KU Leuven 🧠 Alle foto’s en lezingen via deze weg: www.kuleuven.be/brain-institute/nl

🏆 Congratulations to LBI members drs Laura Luyten & Esther Klinger for obtaining an Brain & Behavior Research Foundation grant to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty 🇺🇸 @bbrfoundation.bsky.social @lauraluyten.bsky.social @estherkli.bsky.social

Very excited to share that our collaborative research between @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and the University of Cadiz is now available in the European Journal of Pediatric Neurology🎉Curious to know more about corpus callosum and cerebral palsy?🧠👀 --> doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...

‘Madammeke? Het is mevrouw’: Vlaamse ouderen hebben het gehad met betutteling LBI directeur & ouderenpsychiater prof Vandenbulcke in @tijd.be Lees het volledige artikel gratis via deze link www.tijd.be/politiek-eco... #LeuvenBrainInstitute @upckuleuven

Detection, extraction and skeletonization of 🐭🧠 vessels from brain-wide angiograms acquired using fUS. 🎥 of the procedure : tinyurl.com/bdh46v6f

Clément Brunner@clembrunner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥳🤩Last piece of work from Urban lab @nerflabs.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social in collab with Babin lab from Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of Gent Uni 🇧🇪