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🧠🔬Het LBI verenigt al het hersenonderzoek/ The LBI unites all neuroscientific research @kuleuven, @uzleuven, & @upckuleuven
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'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

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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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October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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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...
June 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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!
June 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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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.
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Work from Ben Verpoort and colleagues, with special thanks to our collaborators.
May 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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📃🥳 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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May 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
❤️ 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
May 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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⚡ 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...
Vlog Mass Spectrometry
YouTube video by VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
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April 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Congrats on this milestone Dr Crotti 👏
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
April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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📣 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...
March 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🚨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.

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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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March 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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.
March 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🧠 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.
March 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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⚡ It's #TechnologyTuesday, and to kick-start the series we have a tour of the VIB Bioimaging Core by Pablo Hernández-Varas! 🔬 (1/4)

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Vlog Bioimaging Core
YouTube video by VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
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March 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
💙 Leuven Brain Institute and its members support World Down Syndrome Day today 💛

#brainresearch #neuroscience #leuvenbraininstitute
March 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🧠 #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
March 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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
February 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🏆 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
February 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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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...
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February 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
‘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...

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February 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Detection, extraction and skeletonization of 🐭🧠 vessels from brain-wide angiograms acquired using fUS.

🎥 of the procedure : tinyurl.com/bdh46v6f
January 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM