Pieter Van de Walle
piewall.bsky.social
Pieter Van de Walle
@piewall.bsky.social
🧬 VIB Center for Molecular Neurology
🧪 bio(techno)logist
📚 writer\reader
Microglia are key immune cells in the 🧠 and their transcriptional 🧬 states show big differences in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Very proud to have been part of this review on microglia heterogeneity, published in @natureneuro.bsky.social, from the lab of @mancusorenzo.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🧬🧠 Rare genetic variants are shedding new light on Alzheimer’s disease risk, filling gaps in missing heritability & opening new doors for drug development. Great insights from @laradedeyn.bsky.social & @sleegerslab.bsky.social at @cmn-vib.bsky.social ! 🔍✨ #Alzheimers #Genetics #RareVariants
🚨 New Review Alert! 🚨 Excited to share our latest in Nature Reviews Neurology! 🧠✨ We explore the impact of rare genetic risk variants on Alzheimer's disease, shedding light on key insights from recent studies.
Thank you for this opportunity!
#Alzheimers #variants #Review #rarevariant #genetics
New online! The impact of rare genetic variants on Alzheimer disease https://bit.ly/4hntQtT
February 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reposted by Pieter Van de Walle
multidisciplinarity ✅
collaboration ✅
inquisitive mindset ✅

All crucial ingredients of the 'techno-scientific ecosystem' we're always on about.

A great example of what can be accomplished in such an environment is #scywalker, a scalable analysis workflow for long-read SC transcriptome sequencing 👇
“There is more to be discovered, if you develop the right tools”
Discover scywalker, VIB's groundbreaking workflow for long-read single-cell transcriptome sequencing. Uncover new isoforms, streamline massive datasets, and explore diverse applications from neuroscie...
blog.vib.be
January 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Pieter Van de Walle
💼💥Ph.D. JOB ALERT!!! Together with the lab of Prof. Weckhuysen, we are looking for a motivated Ph.D. student 🧑‍🎓 to explore the wonders of liquid biopsies and help diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy patients 🧠🩸
Joint PhD candidate in the laboratories of Sarah Weckhuysen and Kristel Sleegers - VIB
The Weckhuysen team and the Sleegers team at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neuro
jobs.vib.be
January 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM