News & Highlights
GENE Amsterdam Day 2023
GENE Amsterdam Day 2023 November 28, the second annual GENE Amsterdam Day was held in the Doelenzaal in Amsterdam. We reflect back on a wonderful day full of interesting talks and discussions. We started the day with a recap by Margot van de Weijer on the work done by...
Final Program Genetics Network Amsterdam Annual Meeting 2023
Note: registration is full, but you can contact Margot van de Weijer (m.p.vandeweijer@amsterdamumc.nl) to be put on a waiting list
GENE Amsterdam Interview session 2: Laura Wesseldijk
Can you tell us about your background and how you ended up doing musicality research?I did my PhD at the Biological Psychology department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where I investigated genetic and environmental risk factors for childhood psychopathology....
Annual GENE Amsterdam day: Keynote Announcement
We are excited to announce prof. dr. Peter Visscher will be presenting the keynote lecture at the 2023 GENE Amsterdam day. Peter Visscher FRS is professor of Quantitative Genetics at the University of Queensland. After an undergraduate degree in the...
GENE Amsterdam Interview session 1: Aysu Okbay
Can you tell us about your background?I currently work at the economics department of the VU. My research focuses on the genetic architecture of social science outcomes, which is a very broad category. I've mostly been working on the genetics of educational attainment...
New website feature: GENE interviews
The Genetics Network (GENE) Amsterdam is large and spread out over several locations across the city. As a result, the researchers from different groups of the network can sometimes feel isolated from each other. As a way of bridge-building, we...
2nd Annual GENE Amsterdam day!
Please mark your calendar for the 2nd GENE Amsterdam day that will be held 28 November 2023 in the Doelenzaal in Amsterdam center!
Abdel Abdellaoui wins best paper award!
Abdel Abdellaoui not only gave a great keynote at the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference (Murcia, Spain, 21-24 June), but also won the best paper award. Congratulations!
Maximizing the Value of Twin Studies in Health and Behaviour
The Research Master “Genes in Behavior and Health” of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam is proud to announce the publication in Nature Human Behaviour of a review and opinion paper titled “Maximizing the Value of Twin Studies in Health and Behaviour”, written by...
Melanie de Wit presenting at INSAR conference
GENE Amsterdam researcher Melanie de Wit presented her large meta-analysis (N 66 studies) about the polygenic score of Autism at the International Society of Autism Research meeting in Stockholm! She shows that the polygenic score is most significantly associated with...