Double whopper for Dimitra Sokolova from the @pasciutolab.bsky.social:
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship +
Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation Young Researcher Award 🙌
blog.vib.be/dimitra-sokolova-studies...

Amazing Xmas dinner!
I am so lucky to work with you guys!

Kicking off #CMNday2025 with technology deep dives and updates from the Rademakers and @mancusorenzo.bsky.social labs, by Elise Coopman and Maxim van Hoek. 🚀
@vibtechnologies.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

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Had a great time at Faculty Science Day, University of Antwerp, introducing the students to the research happening in our Neuroimmunology Lab (VIB-CMN)!
Always inspiring to see the next generation of scientists curious about the brain–immune connection.

#Neuroimmunology #VIB #ScienceDay #UAntwerp

Redefining CNS immune privilege - Nature Reviews Immunology In this Perspective, Smyth and Kipnis reappraise the concept of immune privilege in the central nervous system. Although immune privilege was originally thought to involve isolation of the central ner...

🔗 By @leonsmyth.bsky.social & @jonykipnis.bsky.social at Nature Reviews Immunology: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(10/11)

A route for cerebrospinal fluid flow through leptomeningeal arterial–venous overlaps enables macromolecule and fluid shunting - Nature Neuroscience The authors describe a mechanism for the clearance of macromolecules from cerebrospinal fluid in which macromolecules traverse from periarterial to perivenous spaces, at sites where intersecting lepto...

A route for cerebrospinal fluid flow through leptomeningeal arterial–venous overlaps enables macromolecule and fluid shunting

@jonykipnis.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The NIM team keeps growing!
Welcome Filip &Gayel!

Interested in the role of T cells in Alzheimer’s? PhD student Amelia is presenting her exciting work at #NHND25 in Leuven. If you are there, check out her poster to learn more!

We’re hiring! 📣
🎓🎓 2 PhD positions
🧬🧫 2 Postdocs
🥼 1 Lab Technician
🖥️ 1 IT profile
https://cmn.sites.vib.be/en/join-us
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Huge congratulations to Sebastiaan De Schepper on obtaining a prestigious ERC grant to launch PRIME-PD, a project uncovering how the immune system helps initiate and drive Parkinson’s disease. 🙌

T cells fast-track gut signals to the brain - Nature Immunology CD4+ T cells migrate from the gut and adipose tissue to the brain parenchyma, in mouse and human, transmitting information on diet and microbiome to the subfornical organ, altering feeding behavior.

Curious about how CD4+ T cells influence behaviour? In this News & Views, we discuss the new findings of Yoshida et al.:

The @seppedeschepper.bsky.social, Malysheva, @pasciutolab.bsky.social & Weckhuysen labs, and our Neuromics support team, have all earned LEAF sustainability certifications. 👏

Proud of the collective effort toward more eco-friendly lab practices! 🌿

NIM lab is growing! 🧠🔬

We are hiring a flow cytometry specialist, a bioinformatician and a post-doc candidate!

Join us or help spread the word:

- jobs.vib.be/j/113480/flo...

- jobs.vib.be/j/113083/bio...

- www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...