News & Highlights

This month's interview by Anaïs Thijssen and Jana Hirzinger with Dr. Dirk Smit, Assistant Professor Electrophysiology and Genetics at the department of Psychiatry at Amsterdam UMC. What drew you to work at the intersection of psychiatry, genetics, and the...

Most of us spend our time writing manuscripts for scientific journals, but GENE Amsterdam PhD candidate Tessa Zonneveld additionally writes scientific poetry ✍, Curious? Read (in Dutch) an interview with her:https://www.folia.nl/wetenschap/163292. Or (in English) read...

Please save the date: the 2024 Gene Amsterdam Day will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd in the Doelenzaal in Amsterdam. More information and a registration form will be send out to the mailinglist in September, so stay tuned.

Members of the GENE Amsterdam Outreach committee, Dr. Dennis van 't Ent (VU, biological psychology), Dr. Margot van de Weijer (AUMC psychiatry), Tessa Zonneveld (AUMC psychiatry) & Melanie de Wit (VU, Clinical Developmental Psychology) will receive NWA (nationale...

Giving Back workshop with high school students Last weekend, several GENE Amsterdam researchers came together to teach a genetics workshop to a group of high school students in Giving Back Amsterdam. The day started with a great lecture on genetic research, genetic...

Congratulations to GENE Amsterdam member dr. Elleke Tissink for winning the BioSB Young Investigator Award at the BioSB 2024 conference. Elleke is a former PhD student at the department of complex trait genetics at VU amsterdam, and currently a post-doctoral...

This month, we interview Dennis van 't Ent: associate professor at the department of Biological Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Please tell us about your background and how you became an imaging genetics researcher. I studied physics and astronomy, but...

Two PhD positions in autism research: Join us in Amsterdam to work on sex differences in the prevalence of Autism, and the role of genes. Apply before February 15th!...

Opportunity to join our Research Meeting Committee Is your new years resolution to become more involved? To build your CV? Or perhaps to get to know more scientists within your field? This is the opportunity you have been waiting for! We are looking for a volunteer to...