Congratulations to Blanca Lago Solis (Verstreken Lab) on receiving an @embo.org Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🎉

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/

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

📣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 More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ...

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 More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

Microglia cellular changes underlie divergent resilience-associated mechanisms in human aging. @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social

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) More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

🧪 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.

🧠 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

🧪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

A study led by Esther Klingler, PI at our Center! Read more below! 👇

🧪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

🤸‍♂️ 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

‼️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

🧪 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

🤸‍♂️ Researchers from the Voets Lab, have identified a tiny binding site, a molecular ’keyhole’, in the TRPM3 ion channel, a crucial sensor in pain signaling. TRPM3 is also linked to rare neurodevelopmental disorders and epilepsy. Published in Nature Communications. 🧠

😴 #newstudy about #sleepdeprivation from the Liu Lab! 🧠 A new study in Current Biology shows that lack of sleep impairs pattern separation 🔬 At the neural level: disrupted sparse coding → more overlap & confusion. Read more: vibneuroscienceleuven.be/en/news#/new...

🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026 📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls Don't miss these two speakers: @blibep.bsky.social (@ibdm.bsky.social) and @bellonec.bsky.social (University of Geneva) More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

🧪 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026 📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven Don’t miss the chance to hear from leading experts in protein aggregation: including Magdalini Polymenidou (@polylab.bsky.social) and Alexander Buell (DTU Bioengineering) More: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26 #ProAgg26

We had an amazing weekend at Dag van het Brein in Leuven. 12 LBI members volunteered and gave workshops like painting brains for kids 🧠 stay tuned for more pics #brainawarenessweek @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social

🧪 10th European Synapse Meeting | 21-23 Oct 2026 📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls Don't miss two of our illustrious speakers: Andrea Volterra (@unil.bsky.social) and Beatriz Rico (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

If you were a mouse and a bird of prey was flying overhead, would you run or hide? Researchers at @vibneuroleuven.bsky.social, @mpibrain.bsky.social & Harvard wanted to learn what happens in mouse brains when confronted with a threat. Learn more: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/fre....

🧪 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026 📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven Don’t miss the chance to hear from leading experts in protein aggregation: including John Collings (@ucl.ac.uk) and Judith Steen (Harvard Medical School) More: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26 #ProAgg26

🧪 10th European Synapse | 21-23 Oct 2026 📍 @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social University Halls Reminding you of the 2 keynote speakers: Eunjoon Kim and Nathalie Rochefort (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social). Submit your abstracts now! More: www.vibconferences.be/events/europ... #EUSYN2026

🤸‍♂️ Researchers from the @vib-switch-lab.bsky.social , co-led by Frederic Rousseau & Joost Schymkowitz, show that microglia can actively promote plaque formation in Alzheimer’s disease—challenging the long-standing view that these cells only defend the brain by clearing plaques. Published in @pnas.org

🧠 Registration is open for the 10th European Synapse Meeting! Join us 21–23 October in Leuven for this anniversary edition! 🗓 Abstract deadline: 23 June (poster or oral talk) 💡 Early bird registration: until 21 August ⚡ Don’t miss it! 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8svy6e #Neuroscience #Synapse #EUSYN2026

OSN promotes neuroscience access with open, low-cost tools for education, training, and outreach, especially where conventional neurophysiology setups aren’t available. #ScienceOutreach #OpenScience

🧪 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting | 9–11 Sep 2026 📍 Great Beguinage of Leuven Don’t miss the chance to hear from leading experts in protein aggregation: including Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon (@mrclmb.bsky.social) and Sheena Radford (@radford-lab.bsky.social) More: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26 #ProAgg26

Proud moment for our Center 💙 Multiple researchers at our center have been awarded funding from the Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek (SAO) to advance Alzheimer’s research. Congratulations to all 🧠✨ Check the winning projects here: tinyurl.com/4pmpnr2s #AlzheimersResearch #Neuroscience #VIBneuroleuven

🧪Announcing the 3rd Leuven Protein Aggregation Meeting, 9-11 Sept 2026! 📍Great Beguinage of Leuven 🔬150 participants | Abstract review required, invite upon acceptance 🗓️Submit your abstract until 25 May 2026 🌍Come listen to leading experts in protein aggregation More info: vibbio.tech/ProAgg26

Big news for our Center 🎉 Florian Perrin has been awarded a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! A member of the Chávez-Gutiérrez Lab, Florian will investigate how mitochondrial heat production may influence pathogenic amyloid-beta generation in Alzheimer’s disease 🧠 Congratulations, Florian! 👏 #Alzheimers

Paper alert! 💻 How many cells do you need to train reliable deep learning models in regulatory genomics? We asked how data quality, sequencing depth, and dataset size affect training of sequence-to-function models from scATAC-seq. Out now www.nature.com/articles/s41... (details below)

🚀 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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaq...

🎉 Proud moment for our Center Pierre Vanderhaeghen received the 2025 Fyssen Foundation International Prize, also awarded this year to Franck Polleux (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) for work on the neurobiological foundations of human cognition. 🧠🏆 Congratulations! #FyssenPrize #Neuroscience #VIB

Researchers from the De Strooper Lab just revealed how #lecanemab ’s Fc fragment is key to activating microglia to clear toxic amyloid plaques. It’s the first direct mechanistic evidence for this class of Alzheimer’s therapies, published in Nature Neuroscience. Read more: tinyurl.com/44x5bxjt

Apply for our International PhD Call! Discover the 11 new projects for this edition and apply until the 20th of November. 🔗More info: cbd.sites.vib.be/en/phdcall2026

⚡ It's #TechnologyTuesday, and Suresh Kumar Poovathingal and Kristofer Davie are taking us on a whirlwind tour around the Single Cell units! 🌪️ (1/3) youtu.be/paqikg_sK5M

🏆 Bart de Strooper, M.D., Ph.D., is the recipient of the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award. #AAIC25 @ucl.ac.uk‬ @cbdresearch.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

🌟 We warmly welcomed this scientific delegation from the KOREA-EU Research Centre! It was a fantastic opportunity to forge connections between biotechnology researchers based in South Korea and Belgium. Find out more 👉 lnkd.in/ekmNA27S

A new review from our center, published by Céline Vrancx and Wim Annaert, sheds more light into how APP-CTF toxicity could be an overlooked factor in the pursuit of preventive therapies for #Alzheimer's disease 🧠 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cellpress.bsky.social

Last piece of work by Urban lab @viblifesciences.bsky.social @cbdresearch.bsky.social @nerflabs.bsky.social

🌟 Congratulations to the laureates of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neuroscience scientific awards, which include two researchers from our Center! Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

New prize at our center! Our Liu Lab received the Outstanding Early Investigator Award, by the Sleep Research Society. This distinction was awarded to Joana Dopp, former PhD student at our center, following their publication on Nature Neuroscience. Congratulations! cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

'RNA-binding proteins in #ALS and #FTD: from pathogenic mechanisms to therapeutic insights' Jens Rummens & Sandrine Da Cruz @cbdresearch.bsky.social #FrontotemporalDementia #TDP43 molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🌅 We warmly invite you to New Horizons in Neuroscience, a conference to explore the latest in neurodegeneration technologies, models, and treatments! 🗓️ 9-10 October, 2025 📍 Leuven, Belgium Find out more 👉 www.vibconferences.be/events/new-h...

✨ Congratulations are in order for our FWO Postdoctoral Fellows — Artemis Koumoundourou, Gemma Martinez Rivas, and Ramon Duran-Romaña! 🧠 Through FWO's support, these scientists will continue to study the fundamental mechanisms driving brain development and functioning in health and disease.

🤸‍♂️ We once again teamed up with TAJO vzw — an organization combatting early school leaving, and allowing youth from vulnerable home situations to enter society autonomously and prepared — to inspire young people to get interested in neuroscience! Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

🐦 Early bird registrations for the TRP conference #TRP2025 — organized by the Thomas Voets Laboratory of Ion Channel Research — are now open! 📅 Save the Date: 17-19 September 2025 📍 Location: Leuven, Belgium 👉 Find out more here: lnkd.in/dwRpv_sH

📣 New research from the De Wit lab identified a 'molecular break' that regulates synaptic maturation and function. These new findings show how two different proteins — GPR158 and PLCXD2 — interact to form the spine apparatus in developing synapses. Find out more 👉 cbd.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

🤸 This year's Science Day was as energizing, inspiring, and fun as ever! We teamed up with @nerflabs.bsky.social — another @viblifesciences.bsky.social neuroscience research center, who became our neighbors on the Gasthuisberg campus this year — and enjoyed arguably the best Science Day yet.