Still settling down from an amazing three weeks at the @novoalab.bsky.social at CRG in Barcelona. Such an amazing group of people pushing the boundaries of ONT RNA sequencing! Looking forward to future findings 👀

Extremely thankful to have our Senior Research Project (with Julie van der Zee and @verwilt.bsky.social) funded in this @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social call! This marks a huge investment into our 1000 Healthy Elderly study in search of novel cell-free biomarkers! 🧠🧬🩸

HIRING ALERT!!! 💥 We are looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to uncover Alzheimer's disease mechanisms using state-of-the-art technologies! 🧠🧬 jobs.vib.be/j/128109/pos...

Last Friday, we shared our research with 1st year Master's students at @uantwerpen.be during the Research Day! We loved their genuine interest and look forward to welcoming several of them to our lab next year. Great to see Ph.D. students Kato and Ella share their love for science! 🧪

The European Alzheimer & Dementia Biobank (EADB) unites cohorts across 18 countries to decode the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. https://eadb.eu/ At CMN, the @sleegerslab.bsky.social plays a leading role, with postdoc Fahri Küçükali as our in-house EADB specialist. #CMNcohorts #CMNconsortia

Happy anniversary to the 1,000 Healthy Elderly Study! 🎂 On this day last year, we included our very first participant (again). Today we’re at 196 re-inclusions, and on track to hit 200 by the end of the week. 💪 A special thank you today to our study nurse, Sofie Van de kerckhoven! 🥳 #CMNcohorts

1 year of 1000 Healthy Elderly Study! As we are closing in on 200 re-inclusions, we took some time to celebrate this amazing milestone. Find more about our study here: bit.ly/4gV9TLk

One year in, nearly 200 re-inclusions and a clearer picture of healthy brain aging! The 1000 Healthy Elderly Study has become a real engine for discovery. Thanks to all of our volunteers and a special shout-out to Sofie Van de kerckhoven for the excellence at intake and sampling! bit.ly/4gV9TLk

Awesome opportunity for any motivated scientist to-be! 🔬🧑‍🔬

✨ UGent-alumnus Jasper Verwilt startte bij biotechbedrijf Ablynx, promoveerde aan het OncoRNALab (UGent) en is nu postdoc bij VIB-UAntwerpen. Hij ontwikkelde een techniek om sporen van kankertumoren in bloed & urine op te sporen. 💡 #UGent #biotech

PhD position at UAntwerp with Prof. De Schepper & Prof. Crosiers to map immune cell signatures predicting early Parkinson’s disease using cutting edge single cell profiling. www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-clin...

Maar liefst 3 (❗) alumni van onze faculteit zijn geselecteerd voor de Vlaamse PhD Cup: Ewoud Jacobs, Joy Van de Cauter en Jasper Verwilt @verwilt.bsky.social. Proficiat! Wij duimen alvast mee voor een plaatsje in de finale! 🍀🍀🍀 👉Meer via www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm... @scimingo.bsky.social

Our postdoc @verwilt.bsky.social is selected for the @scimingo.bsky.social PhD Cup for his research during his PhD! 💥 Let's see how his findings can impact Alzheimer's Disease 🧠🧬🩸 @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @ugent-fge.bsky.social @cmn-vib.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be

Over the moon to be selected for the Flemish #PhDCup 2025 for my research at @ugent-fge.bsky.social at the OncoRNALab with @jvdesomp.bsky.social and Pieter Mestdagh! @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

Let's gooooo! Really looking forward to getting this adventure started!

Ciao Milano! We are happy and excited to be here for #eshg2025 @eshg.bsky.social Come find us during the oral and poster presentations by our team members Fahri Küçükali (@maegsul.bsky.social) & Celeste Laureyssen (@celestelaureyssen.bsky.social) today and tomorrow 🧬 🧠

In case you missed it: the FDA cleared the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s this week. For too long, Americans have struggled to get a simple and accurate diagnosis. This action is a step toward earlier, less invasive detection, which can lead to better access to care and treatment.

👏 🎉Congratulations to all awardees and canditates for making this year's selection an affirmation that Flanders's research culture is from the highest quality. Good luck! Results FWO postdoc positions, SBO projects and ERC runner-up projects: www.fwo.be/en/results-o...

Look at us! 🤩 We presented the excuting research going on in our lab at the @uantwerpen.be NeuroDay 2025. So great to with fellow neuroscientist! 🧠

A new chapter in our lab has begun! Our postdoc @verwilt.bsky.social has received an FWO Junior Fellowship to look for non-invasive extracellular biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease. Stay tuned for some cool research! @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME! 🥳 Extremely happy to be selected as a Junior FWO Postdoctoral fellowship! Stay tuned for novel extracellular biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease! Can’t wait to jump in these three years! 🧠🩸🧬 #fwo #RNA #cfDNA #alzheimers @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @sleegerslab.bsky.social

Finally out! The exRNAQC Consortium is very happy to present this milestone benchmark on blood tubes and RNA extraction kits for extracellular RNA research out in @natcomms.nature.com! The associated blog post tells a story of a lengthy effort and multi-facetted collaboration🩸🧬

7 years in the making... 1.6 liters of blood and 11 billion sequencing reads to compare 456 extracellular transcriptomes. Our best practices for blood plasma extracellular RNA profiling have been published as a peer-reviewed article. communities.springernature.com/posts/the-ro...

Our lab’s recent hackathon ☕🧠💻 was a success: three packed days, one awesome crew, endless ideas. We built fresh neurogenomics tools and leveled-up team vibes 🚀🧬

📢 More info & application details: www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca... #PhDPosition #MolecularBiology #CancerGenomics

The case for curiosity-driven research www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/b... h/t former OncoRNALab PhD fellow @verwilt.bsky.social

🚨 PhD Position Alert! 🚨 We're excited to announce a collaborative PhD opportunity with @uantwerpen.be LEMP, investigating the role of mucin splicing in colorectal cancer. If you're passionate about RNA biology, omics, and translational research, this could be the perfect fit!

New online! The impact of rare genetic variants on Alzheimer disease https://bit.ly/4hntQtT

🚨 New Review Alert! 🚨 Excited to share our latest in Nature Reviews Neurology! 🧠✨ We explore the impact of rare genetic risk variants on Alzheimer's disease, shedding light on key insights from recent studies. Thank you for this opportunity! #Alzheimers #variants #Review #rarevariant #genetics

Very happy to see our review on Alzheimer's disease rare genetic variants published in @natrevneurol.bsky.social! 🧠🧬 Huge congrats to our PhD student @laradedeyn.bsky.social 🎉👏✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From tears to AD biomarkers! @verwilt.bsky.social recently received a 10.000 euro @uantwerpen.bsky.social BOF KP grant to kickstart our research on the biomarker potential of tear fluid RNA in AD! 🥲🧬

We have an open position for a PhD student to look for new #biomarkers for #epilepsy and #alzheimersdisease in blood/serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain tissue samples. 📈 🩸 🧠 A joint position in the @sleegerslab.bsky.social and Weckhuysen lab. All info 👉 cmn.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/...

Joint PhD candidate position in the laboratories of Sarah Weckhuysen and Kristel Sleegers at VIB, Antwerp @viblifesciences.bsky.social working on Biomarker Discovery. Closing date: 24th March www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-biom...

🎉 Unique opportunity to join our amazing lab as a Ph.D. student for a novel line of research. Work with cool, cutting-edge technologies to solve fundamental problems in AD and epilepsy.

How has native RNA sequencing contributed to epitranscriptomic research? This is one of the main questions we addressed in our recent review by @evamarianovoa.bsky.social and I now live in Molecular Cell #RNAsky #RNA #nanopore authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2f3vVUP...

I have made a new release of kyber, a tool to make a quick sketch of your long-read sequencing data or to compare multiple datasets. It uses a fixed grid of accuracy and read length. Now also supports ubam - feedback appreciated! github.com/wdecoster/ky...

🤝 Marieke Vromman ⭕️🧬 Very happy to share that our review on extracellular circRNAs is now out in WIREs RNA! We summarize the little that is known, navigate their daunting literature, and dive into hypotheses on their extracellular existence! wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

For the FFBD Faculty Research day, the @UAntwerpen interviewed our Ph.D. student @CelesteLaureys1 on her work on the genetic exploration of Alzheimer’s disease hallmarks . Listen to her explain her research! 🧠🧬https://open.spotify.com/episode/0isr8pKJq9w0GqLJpgrn7n?si=-05SPAOTQHKWZ34_FTIFDQ

New review out! Let Lena Duchateau, Nicole Wawrzyniak, and Kristel Seegers guide you through the mysterious world of ABCA7!

Exciting news! Yesterday, we were honored to receive a generous grant from Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek! This grant is a crucial step forward for our Alzheimer's research as we'll be delving into the intricacies of the ABCA7 gene, a risk factor in AD 🧠🧬 Thanks to everyone involved!