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Veni award for Nicky Scheefhals: How “Mix and Match” synapses keep our brains flexible | Radboud University Supported by a Veni grant, Nicky Scheefhals aims to study a special type of synapse in which components of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses come together: mixed synapses.

🎉 Veni Grant for Nicky Scheefhals to study “mix-and-match” synapses in the brain. Using stem cells and the microSCOOP 🔬, she can isolate and study these synapses in detail.

This could open new paths for autism and developmental disorder research. Read more 👇

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Huge thanks to everyone involved for all their amazing support. Excited for this next step!

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200 researchers receive Veni grants | NWO Identifying when children are most at risk of being taken into care within youth protection programmes. Improving the quality of surgery with video analysis. The interaction between wind and vegetation for optimising the resilience of coastal dunes. Developing reliable algorithms for statistical learning with interactive decision science. These are four of the two hundred research projects by researchers who have been awarded a Veni grant. Each researcher will receive a maximum of 320,000 euros. The grant is an incentive for adventurous, talented and groundbreaking researchers to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.

Incredibly happy to receive an NWO Veni grant! I will explore the fascinating molecular biology of human synapses, focusing on the role of an intriguing mixed synapse state in brain development and disease, with @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social at @radboudumc.bsky.social

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🎥 MAP2 (green), PSD95 (magenta), inhibitory neuron (blue) @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social lab

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What an incredible week at the GRC on Excitatory Synapses! Thrilled for the chance to share our work on building an all-human co-culture of excitatory and inhibitory neurons, astrocytes and microglia to better capture synapse biology in health and disease. A huge team effort driving this forward!

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What makes us.. us? This beautiful work on human evolution and development is a must-read! Congratulations to all!

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