Yesterday, the FunGen lab was present @ the Marguerite-Marie Delacroix's Conference on "Current Directions in Autism Research and NDDs". @Norevanloon rocked her poster presentation concerning organoids & @eva_dhaene gave an excellent talk on @colombolara_ her 3D genome research.
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Proud of @RocioPerezBaca for doing a great job during her talk on our collaborative work on ZFHX4, co-led by María Palomares @FunGenLab @CallewaertBert #ASHG24
The FunGen lab was well represented at two great conferences in the last two weeks: @Norevanloon went to the EMBO workshop in Capri, IT and @colombolara_ went to Chromatin Dynamics in Munich, GER. They both rocked their poster presentation 😎! Go Team FunGen 💪🥳!
Hooray, last week we had our first 2-day lab retreat and it was awesome 🔥! Great combination of science and fun. Big shout out to the entire team for making it such a great experience🤩 and a special thanks to @eva_dhaene and @MichaelBVaughan for all the help!
Busy, busy, busy so a little late to the party... Congratulations 🥳👏 to our own PhD student @Norevanloon for obtaining a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen PhD fellowship! Happy she can keep on working on our shared project with @PhotoBioLab ! Go, go, go Nore!
Throwback to last week: On Tuesday @Norevanloon gave a talk at @maf2024_spain concerning our collaborative work with @PhotoBioLab. On Thursday @hamerlinck_lisa and @SVergult presented at the 2nd NDD conference in lovely Antwerp with great support by colleague @colombolara_.
Working in Ghent, also means (Fun)Gentse Feesten 🥳! A little bit of 🌧️ does not stop us 💪 #TeamFunGen
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👏Today @KeithSiew gave an excellent talk on his recent @NatureComms paper on the effects of spaceflight on kidneys 👏. He got the @FunGenLab team (even more) excited about space research 🚀🧬🚀. Thanks a lot @MichaelBVaughan for inviting him and arranging all the logistics!
🚀 @KeithSiew took us to outer space this morning with a great seminar about the effects of spaceflight on the kidney. Cosmic kidney disease is a thing! Thanks for hosting @MichaelBVaughan and @SVergult !
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A behemoth of integrated omics data finally published.
@KeithSiew & @LTubularCentre kindly brought two @UCCPhysiology boys along for the ride!
#CosmicKidneyDisease
@GradCoMH_UCC @FunGenLab @PhotoBioLab
#CosmicKidneyDisease @NatureComms paper led by @KeithSiew has launched! Using 50+ datasets of humans & rodents exposed to spaceflight & galactic cosmic radiation simulating a Mars trip, we found the signs of kidney dysfunction, tubule remodelling & damage!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Throwback to last Friday: FunGenLab represent @BSCDB1 meeting 'Focus on Organoids' in Leuven, Belgium. Very inspiring talks!
We were lucky to have a great scientific visitor in the lab! 👇🤩
🇧🇪 Thanks to @Co_Biologists for funding this collaboration between @LTubularCentre and @ugent @PhotoBioLab @FunGenLab using nanoparticle biosensors to characterise tubule cell function 🔬 Special thanks to my co-conspirator @MichaelBVaughan, neither of us murdered each other 😜⚔️
Throwback to last week: Second time the FunGen team attended this lovely meeting! Great talks, great people, great food, etc. 🤩!
Always an absolute pleasure and privilege to plan / attend ‘Genetics of NDV’ meeting in quaint Troina, Sicily! SUPERB science, people, food, wine, hospitality. This meeting is a true gem, as is Sicily. #raredisease #Genetics
Throwback to last Friday: Team FunGen was well-represented at the yearly @BeSHGenet meeting. 🎉Great job @eva_dhaene, @RocioPerezBaca and @hamerlinck_lisa 👏👏! Lisa even scored a cool poster prize 🌟!! Congrats to our great @RAREMED1 and @cmggent colleagues too!
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After a 6 yr long journey, we ended the diagnostic oddysey for many individuals with ZFHX3 loss of function variants. It was a fantastic journey with many international and wonderful colleagues! Great collaboration with @SVergult and @FunGenLab! There's more to come! @AJHGNews
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Congratulations to @Norevanloon from our and @FunGenLab teams! Thanks to @histochemnews @FWOVlaanderen and @BioimagingNA funding she will attend #FRET #FLIM #MetabolicImaging workshop this year! A big boost to her #neural #organoids #FOXG1 research project!
Congratulations to the HCS Travel Awardees: Nore Van Loon from Ghent University and Dipali Srivastava from North Carolina State University (linkedin.com/in/dipali-sriva…)!
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Ending one of the best weekends ever. Thx @malte_spielmann , @SVergult and @MarianRosL for joining my PhD evaluation committee, it was a true privilege. Thx Alvaro for your guidance and thx to all @RadaIglesiasLab members, family & friends for their support. Love you all ♥️
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📢We're hiring! Not one but FOUR roles in the @cam_mito team! All on one page now: www-neurosciences.medschl.ca… Join us to do world-leading #singlecell🔬, #Bioinformatics📊or #clinicaltrials💊research on #MITO disease & #RareDisease, with @MRCMouseNetwork @wellcometrust @RosetreesT
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Thanks very much @elfridedebaere and @SVergult @FunGenLab for the invitation to visit #Ghent. Lots of cool science on #noncoding #genome ongoing!
Great talk from @StefanBarakat about missing heritability in neurodevelopmental diseases. About the 'dark matter' of the genome, Explainable AI and other exciting concepts! 👇
#IMHS @ugent_fge
@Erasmusgenetica @ErasmusMC
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Thanks for accepting the invitation @StefanBarakat! It was great having you in Ghent! @RAREMED1 @elfridedebaere @ugent_fge
Great talk from @StefanBarakat about missing heritability in neurodevelopmental diseases. About the 'dark matter' of the genome, Explainable AI and other exciting concepts! 👇
#IMHS @ugent_fge
@Erasmusgenetica @ErasmusMC