Assistant Professor at the Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University - elucidating the genetics of rare diseases. Mom of two. Go and follow @FunGenLab
Joined November 2018
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Unfortunately @colombolara_ could not present herself as she is following an exciting 💻course in Milan, but @hamerlinck_lisa, @GenbruggeLukas, @Norevanloon, @eva_dhaene and I represented the @FunGenLab during this interesting meeting. I will also attend the final day tomorrow!
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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We're looking for a talented scientist 👩🔬👨🔬to join our group @StJudeResearch! Help us develop/characterize #stemcell/#organoid models of #raredisease #epilepsy disorders. 🧠🧬🧠🧬 Details below - join us!
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Bye bye Denver! We had a great #ASHG24 meeting! So happy to meet up in person with old and new faces 🥰! And of course we mixed science a bit with other fun stuff: 🥳 and 🏀 - Go Denver Nuggets 💪🏼! @FunGenLab @RocioPerezBaca @elfridedebaere
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Lovely picture of awesome (ex-)Belgian geneticists at ASHG in Denver! 🇷🇴
@SVergult @NeuroRare Isabelle Schrauwen @FrankKooy @elfridedebaere
@RocioPerezBaca Dale J Annear
#ASHG24
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
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Excited to report our study in @NEJM on the discovery of deletions in a long noncoding RNA gene 🧬 (𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘙) as the cause of a newly defined human neurodevelopmental disorder 🧠. 🧵1/10 nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Well done Nore! 💪🏼
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!
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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!
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📢3-year postdoctoral fellow position available
Interested in gene regulation and deciphering the molecular mechanisms of human disease, join us at the @MRC_LMS in the beautiful city of London
For more details, please visit lms.mrc.ac.uk/vacancies/mrc-…
✉️[email protected]
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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_.
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📢New from @markjcowley & co
📰SpliceVarDB: A comprehensive database of experimentally validated human splicing variants
cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002…
Wauw, amazing work!
It took more than a DECADE... but finally it’s published!!! It started as a CRAZY idea but after tons of hard work we built it: We hijacked the endogenous secretion systems of Toxoplasma gondii, a brain parasite, to deliver active proteins to neurons 👇
nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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Working in Ghent, also means (Fun)Gentse Feesten 🥳! A little bit of 🌧️ does not stop us 💪 #TeamFunGen
👏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 !
Congratulations to @LTubularCentre and all co-authors, including our very own team member @MichaelBVaughan 🥳👏. If you are interested in space research, go read this excellent paper!!👇👇👇
A behemoth of integrated omics data finally published.
@KeithSiew & @LTubularCentre kindly brought two @UCCPhysiology boys along for the ride!
#CosmicKidneyDisease
@GradCoMH_UCC @FunGenLab @PhotoBioLab
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PhD opportunities in @VIB_CMB including one in @KrisGevaert_VIB and my lab on liquid biopsies and cancer: applications via the link.
Please help spreading the word! Two opportunities to start a PhD in @VIB_CMB, including one project on cancer and liquid biopsies in the @kdpreter lab and my lab. Applications via cmb.sites.vib.be/en/jobs#/jo….
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Please help spreading the word! Two opportunities to start a PhD in @VIB_CMB, including one project on cancer and liquid biopsies in the @kdpreter lab and my lab. Applications via cmb.sites.vib.be/en/jobs#/jo….
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Original Article: Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases nej.md/3yP6iwE
#Genetics
ALT Examples of Variants or Regions Requiring Genome Sequencing.
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Today, I’m thrilled have our lab’s work featured on the cover of @Nature
In this article, we have developed a therapeutic approach for a severe condition called Timothy syndrome. This has been a long journey. It started with making hiPS cell-derived neurons in 2D cultures 15 years ago when I was a postdoc and continued with later creating in the lab #organoid and then #assembloid models of this disease caused by a mutation in a calcium channel.
Over time, these human cellular models and the biological insights we gained enable us to design a therapeutic strategy, which we validated in vivo following circuit integration of patient-derived organoids into the rat brain.
Grateful for the incredible work led by @XiaoyuChenxy and @fikribirey in the lab! And the many close collaborators who participated to this line of research over the years.
