Yesterday, #GENEAmsterdam researcher @mmdewit.bsky.social successfully defended her thesis 'Integrating Genetic and Environmental Perspectives on Autism'. In this month's interview, Adrià Túnez Aquilué and Jana Hirzinger interview Melanie about her research and outreach efforts. 👇

Last friday and today, we celebrated Dorret Boomsma's career and achievements.

📆 Mark your calendar for the next GENE Amsterdam meeting, which will take place online on Thursday the 4th of June at 13:00. Professor Angelica Ronald will present a talk titled: 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.

We congratulate @meikebartels.bsky.social with her Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences membership! www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

💻 A reminder that tomorrow’s GENE Amsterdam meeting will take place online at 13:00. Dr. Aysu Okbay will present a talk on Dissecting the Predictive Accuracy of Polygenic Indexes for Behavioral Phenotypes Across Genetic Ancestries.

🎓 To celebrate prof. Dorret Boomsma's transition to emeritus and to honor her outstanding work in the field of genetics, please be notified of the following two events coming up in June:

Wouter is a psychiatrist and researcher at the Amsterdam UMC, and one of the founders of @geneamsterdam.bsky.social. His research capitalises the great progress in genetic research to the benefit of individual patients, by developing novel genetic methods inspired by his work as psychiatrist.

At the end of every year, we have one annual meeting where all #GENEAmsterdam researchers come together to share their research and connect. Would you be interested in helping organize next years meeting? Please reach out to Margot at [email protected]! Why would you do this?

💼 Job opening for a postdoctoral researcher specialising in gene-environment interplay at Amsterdam UMC to work with @aysuo.bsky.social and @dr-appie.bsky.social werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

Don't forget to tune in for tomorrow's online research meeting where we will hear from three junior career researchers 🧑‍🔬. Not on the mailing list yet? Contact us! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

🎙️ New #GENEAmsterdam interview online! This month Adrià Túnez Aquilué and Jana Hirzinger interview Sean Jurgens on his work on the genetics of cardiovascular disease. Check it out now⬇️: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2026/02...

📢 LEARN! seminar in Amsterdam Genetics meets environment: twin studies & polygenic scores in learning and neurodiversity. 📅 12 Feb | 📍 VU Amsterdam | 🍷 drinks afterwards All are very welcome! This marks me starting as Programme Leader Educational Neuroscience at LEARN! @geneamsterdam.bsky.social

🎙️Out now: the first episode of the new @essgn.bsky.social podcast by @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social @aysuo.bsky.social, featuring @dr-appie.bsky.social essgn.podbean.com/e/1-abdel-ab...

Five more days to apply for the PhD position "Genetic Prediction in Psychiatry" at @amsneuroscience.bsky.social werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

🎙️Thanks to @eugeniakis.bsky.social for the thoughtful conversation on her #podcast Psychology Inside Out. open.spotify.com/episode/6Sxt... @geneamsterdam.bsky.social @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social (2/2)

Read a summary of our annual meeting by Thomas Sollie at our website now: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/12...

Thanks everyone who attended the 4th annual #GENEAmsterdam meeting - we had a great time! Keep an eye out for the website and socials - more details on the day will be posted soon 👀 ! For now, a large thanks to Adrià Túnez Aquilué, Tessa Zonneveld and Aysu Okbay for this years organization.

For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7

Really looking forward to go back to my old stumping grounds (the Roeterseiland in Amsterdam) and give a keynote on improved phenotypic modeling in genetics.

Don't forget to sign up for the fourth annual GENE Amsterdam at Roeterseiland December 16! The event will feature presentations from research groups, junior flash talks, and a keynote lecture by Prof. Michel Nivard. Missed the email? Send us a message so we can send the registration form!

Have a look at this new honours course coordinated and taught by many GENE Amsterdam researchers in Amsterdam🧬: vu.nl/en/education...

Congratulations to Anaïs Thijssen for receiving the Volksbond award yesterday for her paper on "Investigating genetically stratified subgroups to better understand the etiology of alcohol misuse": www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎙️ New #GENEAmsterdam Interview session: Jana Hirzinger and Adrià Túnez interview @ymilaneschi.bsky.social on his research on immunometabolic depression, talking not only about genetics, but also philosophy, the clinic, and even ozempic. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/11...

Congratulations to Dr. Wouter Peyrot for winning the Sklar Innovation Award. This award honors the memory of Pamela Sklar and recognizes people & groups for innovation. Dr. Peyrot received the award at the award ceremony of the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) 2025.

Please join us Tuesday October 28 at the CNCR seminar hosted by Dorret Boomsma and Danielle Posthuma: "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳" by prof. Jonathan Flint. cncr.nl/seminar/extr...

Have you already signed up for the annual hashtag#GENEAmsterdam day on December 16? If not, sign up using the google form send out to the mailing list! Important note: this years GENE Amsterdam meeting will n̳o̳t̳ take place at the Doelenzaal but at Roeterseiland!

Join us online tomorrow for our monthly research talk where Anaïs Thijssen will present introduce a novel method, Genetic Distance Visualization (GDVIS)🔺. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

❗SAVE THE DATE! The 4th annual GENE Amsterdam meeting will take place Tuesday, December 16. Registration forms will be send out to the mailing list end of this month. Not on the mailing list and interested in joining? Contact us via LinkedIn or the website: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org

Congratulations to one of #GENEAmsterdam's founding members, Wouter Peyrot, for receiving an ERC starting grant! www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research/...

Interesting webinar by the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS), moderated by #GENEAmsterdam researcher @jennyvandongen.bsky.social. Sign up using the QR code! 📝

🗓️ Our next (hybrid, AMC) research meeting will take place September 4th 13:00, where @hubersnikki.bsky.social will present current knowledge on the aetiology of twinning. See you there! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

🥳Congratulations to #GENEAmsterdam researcher Fiona Hagenbeek, for receiving a VENI to study genetic and molecular influences on externalizing behaviors from childhood into (early) adulthood at @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social! www.nwo.nl/nieuws/200-o...

🎤New #GENEAmsterdam interview online! Read about @meikebartels.bsky.social work on genetic & environmental influences on wellbeing, including her views on where the next 15 years will take us: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/06...

👤 On the 'personal pages' part of the website, you can check out the profiles of GENEAmsterdam researchers. Are you a genetics researcher based in Amsterdam but do you not have a personal page yet? Please reach out so we can quickly set this up! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/personal-pag...

(1/9) 📣 OUT NOW! 📣 So excited to share that our systematic review and meta-analysis on the autism polygenic score is now published in JAACAP Open @jaacapjournals.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... A (long) thread of our main findings ⤵️

🎓 Multiple exciting job openings at the Department of Complex Trait Genetics at VU Amsterdam: Application for Two PhD Positions in Statistical Genetics: t.co/0Cy3KF75lI Application for Postdoc Statistical Genetics: t.co/ENI5KeI6yF Application for Postdoc Bioinformatics: t.co/qOLaauKNLV

1/2; Check out our new paper on #Dizygotic #Twinning and female #fertility: doi.org/10.1007/s108... In this collaboration from @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social and the Norwegian #MoBa study, we use several genetically informed methods to investigate the genetic architecture of DZ Twinning.

🗓️ Our next research meeting will take place online on Thursday, June 5th at 13:00. Tune in to hear about interesting research by @bstpourcain.bsky.social & Ellen Verhoef. www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

🏡🧬 Our new meta-analysis of 140 studies including ~66,000 people finds that lower socioeconomic status and marginalized race/ethnicity is associated with faster epigenetic biological aging. Find out which epigenetic clocks show the strongest effects 👇 tinyurl.com/metaclocks

Don't forget to join our online research meeting tomorrow! www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

📌PhD Position at the department of Biological Psychology: stress-in-action.nl/phd-student-...

New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

Previously presented by Yayouk Willems and @laraffington.bsky.social at a #GENEAmsterdam symposium and out now: "Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence" by @munaaikins.bsky.social Summary: lnkd.in/eyT9jrrQ

Don't forget to join this workshop/discussion coming Thursday!

Tomorrow in our research meeting (location VU): Yuchen Ning will present a talk on “Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Physical Activity Across Six Cohorts: Novel Loci, Genetic Correlation, and Causality”. 🏃 www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/event/resear...

This past Monday, Dr. Bodine Gonngrijp successfully defended her PhD thesis "Invisible Scars: Unravelling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization." Congratulations on this important milestone! 👏 #PhDDefense #Research #MentalHealth #Epigenetics

Are we born to succeed or are we made to succeed? #GENEAmsterdam's @dr-appie.bsky.social created a really cool comic with @lizahaart.bsky.social on this question: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we....

This week, GeNe Amsterdam researcher Bodine Gonggrijp successfully defended her thesis: "Invisible Scars: Unraveling the Epigenetic and Mental Health Consequences of Victimization"! Congratulations, doctor Gonggrijp! Check out the thesis here: lnkd.in/e7ghH7q5

Free 'genes and SEM' workshop organized by @bstpourcain.bsky.social, Brad Verhulst, and Conor Dolan: www.geneticsnetworkamsterdam.org/blog/2025/03...

In every civilization, people end up sorted into levels of socio-economic status (SES). We explore the history, present, and future of scientific research on the complicated relationship between SES and DNA in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social💰🧬🎓 Link: rdcu.be/efacK Thread below 👇🏽