13:30 - Testimonials of YUFE researchers

Session Chairs: Prof. dr. Ann Hallemans (MOVANT) and dr. Lies Durnez (MOVANT)

  • Dr. Dorien Verdoodt (Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAntwerp)
  • Dr. Tamaya Van Criekinge (Nutrition and Movement Sciences, Maastricht University)

14:00 - NEUROpitches part 3

Session Chairs: Prof. dr. Kristel Sleegers (VIB-CMN) and dr. Jasper Verwilt (VIB-CMN)

  • NP13: Eva Wachtelaer (Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI)) - Vulnerability and resilience for mental illness following viral infections in the NESDA deep-phenotyped longitudinal cohort (Abstract in pdf, 136 kB)
  • NP14: Gabriele Petraityte (Bio-Imaging Lab) - Structural and Resting-State Effective Connectivity in a Non-Human primate Model of Huntington’s Disease (Abstract in pdf, 134 kB)
  • NP15: Tinne Vandenbroeke (Translational Neurosciences) - Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials in subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: a cross-sectional study taking hearing loss into account (Abstract in pdf, 137 kB)
  • NP16: Jana Osstyn (imec-Vision Lab) - Delta-MRI: a framework for direct deformation estimation from longitudinally acquired single-coil and multi-coil MRI data (Abstract in pdf, 113 kB)
  • NP17: Nathan Donies (Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group) - SCREEN4PN: Efficient evaluation of therapeutic compounds for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease using patient-derived induced motor neurons and neuromuscular organoids (Abstract in pdf, 122 kB)
  • NP18:  Siebe Van Calster (Laboratory of Experimental Hematology) - Multi-Omics analysis reveals ischemic stroke-like features in matured HiPSC-derived neurospheroids after oxygen/glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (Abstract in pdf, 128 kB)

14:40 - Keynote talk 2

Session Chairs: Prof. dr. Emanuela Pasciuto (VIB-CMN) and dr. Pieter Van de Walle (VIB-CMN)

Prof. Dr. Sebastiaan De Schepper (VIB - Center for Molecular Neurology) 

The gut-immune-brain axis in Parkinson's disease

15:15 - Closing & Awards