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VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social · Jan 27
🚀 Proudly introducing the VIB-KU Leuven Center For Neuroscience, a merger of the two former VIB research centers VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research and Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF)! Our new motto: Bold Science, Real Impact.

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Check this out! We at @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social are grateful to @raacampbell.com and the team for the initiative and their support in developing our system.
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Preprint is out! Our BakingTray software turns a 2-photon microscope into a serial-section tomography system for automated whole-organ imaging. ~€35k to convert an existing scope. 11 systems worldwide, >7,000 samples at SWC alone #neuroskyence #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A BrainSaw at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt. A Nikon 16x water-immersion objective on a 400 µm travel PIFOC allows for fast z-stacks. Samples are imaged and cut in the clear water bath. A Leica VT1000 vibratome is seen to the right with a mounted blade. How BrainSaw works. Samples are embedded in an agarose block, which is glued to a slide and clamped into a water bath. The bath sits on a three-axis stage under a 2-photon microscope; the stage moves the sample for both tile scanning and slicing. The microscope images the exposed face of the block, the vibratome cuts off the imaged layer, and the cycle repeats until the samples have been fully imaged. Data are stitched automatically and are ready for downstream analysis. Logos below: BrainSaw (hardware), BakingTray (acquisition software), StitchIt (stitching). Coronal section of an Sst-tdTomato mouse brain imaged on BrainSaw. tdTomato-expressing cells are shown in yellow, scattered through cortex and hippocampus; tissue autofluorescence is shown in blue. Coronal section of a mouse brain with three neighbouring viral injections targeting layer 5 of V1, expressing mCherry (red), eGFP (green) and BFP (blue). The thick apical dendrites of the labelled neurons are clearly visible, as are their axons projecting to distant targets. Image credit: Alex Fritzl.
October 4, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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What can people who live to 100+ teach us about healthy #brainageing?

Meet Professor Henne Holstege, our first #BNA2027 plenary speaker. Her #100plusStudy explores resilience against cognitive decline.

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What can people who live to 100+ teach us about healthy brain ageing?
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September 18, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Deadlines approaching to join the #EUSYN2026! Last confirmed speakers:

Simona Lodato (Humanitas University),
@venkataramanilab.bsky.social & William Schafer (@mrclmb.ac.uk)

📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...
August 26, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Still undecided? Check out more #EUSYN26 Speakers!

Tabriz J. Siddiqui (@siddiquilab.bsky.social) & Tim Ryan (@mcgillscience.bsky.social) are coming to the 10th European Synapse Meeting!
📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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August 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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More #EUSYN26 Speakers!

Natalia de Marco Garcia (Weill Cornell Medical College) & Song-Hai Shi (Tsinghua University) will also be coming to the 10th European Synapse Meeting!
📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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July 29, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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#EUSYN26 Speaker alert!
Monika Brill (@tum.de) and Rob Meijers (@ipiproteins.bsky.social) at the 10th European Synapse Meeting!
📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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July 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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#EUSYN26 Speaker alert!
Matthijs Verhage (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) and Michael R. Kreutz (LIN & ZMNH) are also part of the incredible speaker lineup of the 10th European Synapse Meeting!
📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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July 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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#NewPaper Alert ‼️
Researchers from the Bonin Lab have attempted to answer the question: 🧠 How does the brain know where we are?

To answer this question, the researchers focused on the retrosplenial cortex, in this paper published in Nature Communications.
July 13, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Professor Bart De Strooper from the @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social , Belgium, and the Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom, joined #BOARD26. #SCICOMM #EARA #NAMs #podcast
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Professor Bart De Strooper joined #BOARD26
Professor Bart De Strooper from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuros...
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July 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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#SpeakerAlert!
Don't miss Gabrielle Pouchelon at the 10th European Synapse Meeting!
@marijnkuijpers.bsky.social (Radboud University) and Mark Harnett (@mit.edu)
📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

#EUSYN26
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July 8, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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Congratulations to Blanca Lago Solis (Verstreken Lab) on receiving an @embo.org Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉
July 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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Congratulations to Bart De Strooper for receiving a very special distinction: Honorary Commander of the British Empire, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to dementia research in the United Kingdom and around the world

More about the De Strooper Lab 👉🏻https://destrooperlab.sites.vib.be/
July 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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Congratulations to Bart De Strooper on receiving an ERC Proof of Concept Grant! 🎉 His project will develop a neurotechnology platform to study the earliest stages of #Alzheimer's disease, helping researchers test new interventions and accelerate the path toward future therapies.

@erc.europa.eu
June 30, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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📣More speakers at #EUSYN2026!
Gabrielle Pouchelon (@cshlnews.bsky.social) and @marcvoo.bsky.social (@biozentrum.unibas.ch) are part of amazing the lineup of the 10th European Synapse meeting

📅 21-23 Oct
🪧 University Halls @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

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June 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Don't miss
Fekrije Selimi @college-de-france.fr and Lukas Neukomm @fbm-unil.bsky.social
at the
🧪10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026
📍@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls

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#EUSYN2026
June 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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Microglia cellular changes underlie divergent resilience-associated mechanisms in human aging. @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social
Human microglial transitions at the Aβ–tau inflection point associate with divergent pathways to dementia and resilience - Nature Medicine
Microglia cellular changes underlie divergent resilience-associated mechanisms in human aging.
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June 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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More amazing speakers for the:
🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026
📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls

Fan Liu @fmp-berlin.de and Gabor Tamas (University of Szeged)

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June 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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🧪 We had the pleasure of hosting @steinaerts.bsky.social from @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social as a keynote speaker!

🧬 A fantastic talk on modelling genome regulation using single-cell atlases, with great discussions on gene regulation, modelling and AI, neural development, and atlases.
June 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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🧠 A new study from the De Strooper Lab reveals a critical biological transition that may determine whether Alzheimer’s disease pathology progresses to dementia, published in Nature Medicine

#Alzheimers #DementiaResearch #Neuroscience
June 4, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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🧪All eyes on the 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026
📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven

The last confirmed speakers are Markus Zweckstetter (@uni-goettingen.de) and Sandrine Da Cruz (CNL).

Stay tuned for more updates!

More info: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26
#ProAgg26
June 3, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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A study led by Esther Klingler, PI at our Center! Read more below! 👇
institutimagine.bsky.social Institut Imagine @institutimagine.bsky.social · May 29
🧠 What makes the human brain uniquely... human?

That's the question at the heart of a study just published in @nature.com by Denis Jabaudon, Esther Klingler, and their teams.

📄 Javed, Gómez et al., Nature (2026) — DOI: lnkd.in/eF_mH72U
May 29, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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🧪Don't miss the 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026
📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven

Come listen to Motomasa Tanaka (@riken-brc-jp.bsky.social) and Judith Frydman (Stanford University)

More info: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26
#ProAgg26
May 6, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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🤸‍♂️ A new study from the Verstreken Lab shows how Parkinson’s disease can be grouped, showing promise to more personalized therapies in the future. The study was published in Nature Communications and used a machine-learning approach to group the different forms of Parkinsonism. 🧠
#parkinsons
May 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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‼️Speaker Alert
🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026
📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social l University Halls
Come listen to amazing talks by Diana Piol (University of Padova) & @franckp.bsky.social (@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social)

More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...
#EUSYN2026
April 29, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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🧪 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026
📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven
Our illustrious speakers list also includes @meytallandau.bsky.social (@cssbhamburg.bsky.social) & @ruferbus.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de).

Don't miss it!

More info: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26
#ProAgg26
April 22, 2026 at 7:26 AM