News & Highlights
Cumlaude for Dr. Lianne de Vries
Huge congratulations to Lianne de Vries who successfully defended her Cumlaude Thesis "Differences in well-being: the biological and environmental causes, related phenotypes, and real-time assessment"! Find her thesis here: https://lnkd.in/eQWnxJPa
New paper by GENE Amsterdam colleagues!
"Brain Structure and Function Show Distinct Relations With Genetic Predispositions to Mental Health and Cognition". Excellent paper just out by GENE Amsterdam colleagues Shu Liu et al https://bit.ly/3K1eRaT.
Thesis award for Anaïs Thijssen
Congratulations to GENE Amsterdam member Anaïs Thijssen who wins the Jan Brouwer award (€2.000) for her Master thesis entitled The Darwinian paradox of psychiatric disorders: Combining multiple evolutionary theories using genetic analyses. See here pictures and a...
Social Media account
A team of GENE Amsterdam members has set up social media accounts on Twitter and LinkedIn! Wonu Akingbuwa and Margot vd Weijer are in the lead so if you want to share something let them know! The links...
Celebrating 15 years of GWAS discoveries
In 2022, it has been 15 years since the first well-designed genome-wide association study (GWAS). Abdel Abdellaoui and Karin Verweij from Amsterdam UMC together with Loic Yengo and Peter Visscher from the University of Queensland celebrate this with an extensive...
Exploring the genetic overlap among twelve psychiatric disorders
In a study published in Nature Genetics, Cato Romero, Mats Nagel, and Sophie van der Sluis teamed up with colleagues from the Complex Trait Genetics department and the Million Veteran Program to scrutinize the genetic similarity of twelve psychiatric...
Symposium March 1st, Genetics of Depression
On March 1, 13.30-18.00, there will be a symposium on 'Novel large-scale genetic studies of depression'. Research of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Australia), King's College London (UK), and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam will be presented. Location:...
ERC starting grant for Jorien Treur!
Comorbidities of mental illness Individuals with a mental illness are much more likely to also experience other health problems. Two of the most important such ‘comorbidities’ of mental illness are the (mis)use of addictive substances and cardiovascular disease....
Optimizing study designs for iPSC-based disease modelling
Brand new study by Jessie Brunner et al. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) greatly facilitate the investigation of human disease mechanisms, the characterization of patient-specific cellular phenotypes, and the development of new, personalized treatments. For...
First GENE Amsterdam annual meeting!
The first annual GENE Amsterdam day was held November 30, 2022 in the city center of Amsterdam. We look back at an exciting event where over 60 researchers from different genetics research groups in Amsterdam were able to meet and network. In the morning, the new GENE...