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Big congrats to our colleague @alandvreugd.bsky.social , who successfully defended her thesis "Night and Day: A Study on the Triangular Association between Light, the Circadian Rhythm and Wellbeing" on June 17th! 🎓🌙☀️
Wishing you all the best in your next chapter, Anne! 🚀👏 #PhDDefense #Congrats
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On June 5th, our amazing colleague @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social shared with the APH community all the incredible work she’s done with the personalized medicine grant she received last year. 💡💊
So inspiring to see what impact this support has made! 🚀 #PersonalizedMedicine #APH #TravelGrant
June 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On June 4th, our scientists brought the Health Lab to the kids of Amsterdam — and wow, what a day! So much fun, so much curiosity, and so many bright young minds. 🧪🌈
Big thanks to everyone who joined us and helped make science come alive! 💥🧬 #HealthLab #Amsterdam #ScienceFun
June 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🎓 Big congrats to @selimsametoglu.bsky.social, who defended his PhD on May 27th!
His research, “Social Media as a Source for Understanding Differences in Wellbeing,” explores how digital platforms reflect our lived experiences.
Way to go, Dr. Sametoğlu! 👏
#PhDDefense #SocialMedia #Wellbeing
June 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Great Colloquium this month with Brad Verhulst talking Gene-Environment Interaction in the Genomic Era 🧬🧠
Thanks for making a tricky topic feel (almost) easy! Come back soon 👏
#Genomics #SciTalks #Colloquium #BehavioralGenetics
May 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Big shoutout to @liannedevries.bsky.social and @margotvdweijer.bsky.social from our dept who rocked their talk at #PintOfScienceNL this week 🍻🧪
Science, a pint, and a room full of curious minds — perfect combo. They made us proud!
#SciComm #WomenInSTEM #PintOfScience #STEMoutreach
May 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Last week, a few BioPsy members joined 60+ members of the @stress-in-action.bsky.social in Amersfoort for the biannual meeting.
Special shoutout to our four PhD students who presented their posters—inspiring research and bold plans for the future. Keep it up! 👏 #StressInAction #consortiummeeting
May 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Last week, our master's students took part in Career Day! 🎓💼
They connected with PhDs, alumni, and industry professionals from a range of scientific fields 🔬🧠💻.
We hope you left inspired ✨ and wish you all the best on your journey ahead! 🚀
#CareerDay #ScienceCareers #MastersLife #Scientists
May 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🧠This month’s colloquium featured two fascinating talks!
🔬 Conor walked us through complicated twin models under phenotypic assortative mating.
🌫️ We also welcomed guest speaker Dorina Ibi from Utrecht University, who presented on “The Impact of PM2.5 on Transcriptome-Methylome Cross-Omics Analyses.”
April 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🎉Exciting news! Our Research Master's Genes in Behavior and Health has been awarded the Award of Excellence by the 2025 Keuzegids!
🔍 Still searching for a Master’s program for 2025–2026? Curious about the biological and environmental roots of behavior and disease?
👉 Apply now: vu.nl/en/education...
April 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Three of our PhD students had the opportunity to present at a seminar at the CREATE Center, University of Oslo. Great to see their hard work shared with such a fantastic audience! 👏
#PhDStudents #CREATECenter #UniversityOfOslo #Research
March 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This month, our PhD students visited Boulder to attend the ISG workshop! Here are some pictures of them, also with their posters at the event. 📸✨
#ISGWorkshop #PhDStudents #Research #AcademicLife
March 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our second speaker at the BioPsy colloquia was Anne van den Maagdenberg, who gave an insightful talk on Open Access at the VU. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge, Anne! 🙏
#OpenAccess #Research #BioPsy #VU
March 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
On March 18th, we had another great session of the BioPsy colloquia. Dave Leitritz presented “Combining Longitudinal Change Features of Childhood Psychopathology with Polygenic Risk Scores in Multimodal Prediction Models of Adult Wellbeing.” Thanks, Dave, for sharing this fascinating project!
March 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yesterday, Dr. Hekmat Alrough defended his PhD thesis "Child Development and Mental Health." Congratulations on this amazing achievement! 🎉
#PhDDefense #ChildDevelopment #MentalHealth #Research
March 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This past Monday, Dr. Bodine Gonngrijp successfully defended her PhD thesis "Invisible Scars: Unravelling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization." Congratulations on this important milestone! 👏
#PhDDefense #Research #MentalHealth #Epigenetics
March 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We’ve been celebrating several PhD defenses lately! 🎓 On February 5th, Dr. Susanne Bruins successfully defended her thesis "Best of Both Worlds." Congratulations on this great achievement! 👏
#PhDDefense #AcademicLife #Methods
March 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📝 New Year, New Blog Post!

Artemis Stefani, a PostDoc at BioPsy has written a fantastic piece on stress in daily life, helping us understand the topic from physiological, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and environmental perspectives.

Read it here: stressinaction.substack.com/p/stress-dec...
February 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎧 Podcast Alert!

In de “Stress Navigation Podcast” gaat Myrte Schoenmakers in gesprek met Christiaan Vinkers over gepersonaliseerde stressaanpak en veerkracht.

Luister nu op Spotify, Apple Podcasts of YouTube: stress-in-action.nl/christiaan-v...
February 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📢ICYM: At the @stress-in-action.bsky.social Stress-NL symposium held on Jan 30!

Eco De Geus presented on the effects of fitness training on physiological stress-reactivity
February 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This month in the BioPsy department… We had a new session of the #BioPsyColloquia, with a guest speaker on a very interesting topic! Dr. Athina Vidaki from Maastricht University presented on “Forensic epigenomics: Can DNA methylation solve crimes?”. Thank you for joining us!
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Last but not least, last Wednesday 18th we had the annual Christmas drinks! Many thanks to Santa’s elves for organizing such a nice evening. Happy holidays and see you next year with new things to share!
December 20, 2024 at 2:50 PM
On December 17th we attended the last session of the BioPsy colloquia for this year. Bruno presented “Genetics of Videogaming”. Thomas presented “Sex differences in autism”. Thanks for sharing your work. We can’t wait to see how these projects advance.
December 20, 2024 at 2:50 PM
On December 6th we had our Away Day in Zaandam, where the topic was “Societal impact”. We had very interesting talks and discussions. We will keep you updated on the things coming up next year!
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
On December 4th we had another session of our BioPsy colloquia. This time, Elsje (@drelsje.bsky.social) and Camiel presented their work. We listened to talks about “Educational Genetics” and “Trusted Upload and Linked Procedure”. Very interesting topics! Thank you for joining.
December 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM