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

Also big thanks to all the funding agencies that support our lab! @erc.europa.eu @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social @alzassociation.bsky.social

If the biology diverges, our treatments should too. Time to think about stratified immunomodulation in ALS. Grateful to the team, and especially Pegah Masrori, @baukje-bij.bsky.social @c9laura72.bsky.social , for leading the project, our partners, and the donors/families who made this work possible.

Proud of this collaboration with Philip Van Damme’s team: we show that microglia and astrocytes behave differently in sporadic vs. C9orf72 ALS across human tissue, iPSC-derived cells and in vivo xenografts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For me, it’s especially rewarding to see neuroimmunology gaining momentum—not as a silo, but as an integral part of how we tackle complex brain diseases. We’re building the infrastructure and community to ask deeper, more functional questions, and we’re doing it together as a team.

We’re evolving CMN along two intersecting axes, neurogenetics and neuroimmunology, and backing that vision with strategic investments in talent, technology, and collaboration.

“Our neurogenetics legacy continues, but we’ve also made room for new directions” Under the joint leadership of Rosa Rademakers and Renzo Mancuso, the Center is expanding its pioneering work in neurogenetics into neuroimmunology.

Excited to share this new interview with Rosa Rademakers and myself, reflecting on the direction we're taking together with all our colleagues at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology.
blog.vib.be/our-neurogen...

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This weekend, our teams @cmn-vib.bsky.social & our amazing lab are trading lab coats for running shoes! We're hitting the pavement to raise funds for Alzheimer's research — a cause close to our hearts and minds. Every step we take brings us closer to a cure. StopAlzheimer

Hi Matthias
Thanks! Email me please but in any case if you refer to the comparison table across species, each study is referenced on the x axis and is publicly available. Shoot me an email tho and I’ll be happy to help with anything :)

Also big thanks to @natureneuro.bsky.social for letting us share our views and thoughts with the community. If you want to contribute to the web tool please reach out to us @viblifesciences.bsky.social, @cmn-vib.bsky.social and @uantwerpen.be

Big thanks to everyone involved @nicola-fattorelli.bsky.social, @jypremer.bsky.social , @baukje-bij.bsky.social, @paulapolanco.bsky.social and @piewall.bsky.social.

We also offer to you a very simple and user friendly tool that will help you with your next microglial cell state annotation adventure! mancusolab.bioinf.be/microglia/in....

Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration - Nature Neuroscience Microglia have key roles in CNS development and neurodegeneration. Here, the authors provide an overview of microglia heterogeneity, cell-state annotation and model systems.

I am so excited to share our review on microglial heterogeneity @natureneuro.bsky.social! It was a fantastic effort by the lab, led by @c9laura72.bsky.social and Alma Mohebiany. We provide a critical view on the plethora of microglial cell states in health and disease. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microglia heterogeneity, modeling and cell-state annotation in development and neurodegeneration - Nature Neuroscience Microglia have key roles in CNS development and neurodegeneration. Here, the authors provide an overview of microglia heterogeneity, cell-state annotation and model systems.

Brand new review by the @mancusorenzo.bsky.social lab on microglial heterogeneity: Laura Fumagalli et al. dive into transcriptional states across development, disease, sex & CNS regions—plus annotation tools.

Out now in Nature Neuroscience:
📄 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01931-4

Laura Fumagalli (@mancusorenzo.bsky.sociallab) was recently awarded a pilot grant from Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek. 🙌

This grant will support her research on the role of microglia in ALS and FTD.
mancusolab.sites.vib.be/en/news

Hoe beïnvloeden mutaties van het C9orf72-gen de hersenen? - Stop Alzheimer Met dit onderzoek hoopt Fumagalli nieuwe therapeutische doelwitten te identificeren en bij te dragen aan verbeterde diagnostische en behandelingsmethoden voor FTD en ALS.

Congrats to Laura for obtaining a pilot grant from Stop Alzheimer! And thanks to Stop Alzheimer and all the donors for their incredible support to our research! @viblifesciences.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be stopalzheimer.be/nl/hoe-beinv...

Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer disease - Nature Reviews Immunology This Review provides an in-depth examination of how inflammation contributes to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer disease. The authors explore the impact of extrinsic factors, such as brain trauma, diet ...

it's big, and it's a review of 601 papers on the topic - but here's an update on Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

led by Michael Heneka, published in @natrevimmunol.bsky.social today

(MANY more authors listed and linked below)

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Hi Anna. Can I join please?

Of course you are in! We are all one big family :)
Can I also be part of the astrocytes one pretty please?

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Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology - Nature Neuroscience Human microglia transplanted in the mouse brain mount a multipronged response to amyloid-β pathology, displaying unique transcriptional states. Alzheimer’s disease risk genes are differentially regula...

Hi Bluesky 🦋 I’m Nico, a microglia enthusiast based in VIB, Belgium 🧠 if you are curious about the science we do, take a look at our latest work! Here we use xenotransplantation models to map the spectrum of human microglia responses to Alzheimer’s disease pathology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microglia community, let’s start the discussion 🧠 follow the Microglia Starter Pack and ask @mancusorenzo.bsky.social to add your colleagues as they join Bluesky 🦋

go.bsky.app/DT3Cp4A

Laboratory Technician - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER The Dr Sebastiaan De Schepper Lab at VIB, Belgium is recruiting for a Laboratory Technician working on Gut-Immune-Brain Axis Research

The Dr Sebastiaan De Schepper Lab at VIB, Belgium is recruiting for a Laboratory Technician working on Gut-Immune-Brain Axis Research.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/laborato...