Proud of Clara Milián Alastruey for presenting her poster at the Fragile X and Autism-Related Disorders Gordon Research Conference! A great milestone as her first international conference during her PhD, sharing her work on adaptive immunity in autism spectrum disorders. 🌟

Pioneer work from the Frank Kooy lab published today in The Lancet eBioMedicine. Congratulations to Claudio D’Incal and all co-authors. Proud to have contributed to this study on ADNP-related neurodevelopmental mechanisms and Wnt signalling. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

An Adnp frameshift variant disrupts Wnt signalling inducing chromatocytoskeletal defects and autism-related behaviour in male mice

We generated a disease-relevant heterozygous Adnp mouse model that recapitulates key molecular and behavioural features observed in patients with Helsmoortel-Van der Aa syndrome. Our findings demonstr...

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A proud moment yesterday at the Royal Palace in Brussels, where H.R.H. Princess Astrid presented Dr. Dimitra Sokolova with a Young Investigator Grant from the FMRE-GSKE Foundation to support an exciting project from our lab www.fmre-gske.be/pages/en/awa...

A very special visit to CMN-VIB Antwerp So happy to welcome my PhD supervisor and Claudia Bagni, to meet the NIM lab team.

Double whopper for Dimitra Sokolova from the @pasciutolab.bsky.social: EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship + Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation Young Researcher Award 🙌 https://blog.vib.be/dimitra-sokolova-studies-astrocytes-microglia-and-t-cells-from-autism-to-alzheimers-disease

Amazing Xmas dinner! I am so lucky to work with you guys!

Kicking off #CMNday2025 with technology deep dives and updates from the Rademakers and @mancusorenzo.bsky.social labs, by Elise Coopman and Maxim van Hoek. 🚀 @vibtechnologies.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Adrian Liston@labliston.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A small 🧵 encouraging people to publish protocols. Our #AutoSpectral release has made me reflect on how much the community tends to appreciate protocol papers. People rarely present protocols as their main achievements, but they are often the most impactful work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Had a great time at Faculty Science Day, University of Antwerp, introducing the students to the research happening in our Neuroimmunology Lab (VIB-CMN)! Always inspiring to see the next generation of scientists curious about the brain–immune connection. #Neuroimmunology #VIB #ScienceDay #UAntwerp

🔗 By @leonsmyth.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social at Nature Reviews Immunology: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (10/11)

Redefining CNS immune privilege - Nature Reviews Immunology

In this Perspective, Smyth and Kipnis reappraise the concept of immune privilege in the central nervous system. Although immune privilege was originally thought to involve isolation of the central ner...

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A route for cerebrospinal fluid flow through leptomeningeal arterial–venous overlaps enables macromolecule and fluid shunting @jonykipnis.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A route for cerebrospinal fluid flow through leptomeningeal arterial–venous overlaps enables macromolecule and fluid shunting - Nature Neuroscience

The authors describe a mechanism for the clearance of macromolecules from cerebrospinal fluid in which macromolecules traverse from periarterial to perivenous spaces, at sites where intersecting lepto...

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The NIM team keeps growing! Welcome Filip &Gayel!

Interested in the role of T cells in Alzheimer’s? PhD student Amelia is presenting her exciting work at #NHND25 in Leuven. If you are there, check out her poster to learn more!

We’re hiring! 📣 🎓🎓 2 PhD positions 🧬🧫 2 Postdocs 🥼 1 Lab Technician 🖥️ 1 IT profile https://cmn.sites.vib.be/en/join-us Please share!

Huge congratulations to Sebastiaan De Schepper on obtaining a prestigious ERC grant to launch PRIME-PD, a project uncovering how the immune system helps initiate and drive Parkinson’s disease. 🙌

Curious about how CD4+ T cells influence behaviour? In this News & Views, we discuss the new findings of Yoshida et al.:

T cells fast-track gut signals to the brain - Nature Immunology

CD4+ T cells migrate from the gut and adipose tissue to the brain parenchyma, in mouse and human, transmitting information on diet and microbiome to the subfornical organ, altering feeding behavior.

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The @seppedeschepper.bsky.social, Malysheva, @pasciutolab.bsky.social & Weckhuysen labs, and our Neuromics support team, have all earned LEAF sustainability certifications. 👏 Proud of the collective effort toward more eco-friendly lab practices! 🌿

NIM lab is growing! 🧠🔬 We are hiring a flow cytometry specialist, a bioinformatician and a post-doc candidate! Join us or help spread the word: - jobs.vib.be/j/113480/flo... - jobs.vib.be/j/113083/bio... - www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...