MaCSBio

Congratulations to our colleague @MichelleMoerel for being awarded a prestigious personal @NWONieuws Vidi grant! :)

We've built a large and detailed scalable model of the hippocampus including realistic astrocytic territories and neuron-astrocyte synaptic mechanisms. If you are interested in applying for an MSCA PF or @HFSP fellowship in 2026, come work with me @MaCSBio @MaastrichtU.

Many thanks to EBRAINS' management to heed our call at last! I am looking forward to participating to this effort and I am really excited to see the community take the reins./end

Really pleased to see this call finally go out! The Science & Technology Committee of EBRAINS that I chaired over the last 3 years had been pushing for such a roadmap, and did a lot of preparatory work taking inspiration from similar efforts in particle physics to plan for one./1

And it's officially out doi.org/10.1371/journa… @PLOSCompBiol @MaCSBio @um_fse @Unimaas

Come be my colleague! linkedin.com/posts/vickyste…

New paper out on brain energy metabolism in @PLOSCompBiol doi.org/10.1371/journa…

…sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-post… More than 17k submissions to the @MSCActions PF call this year, up 7k from its "historic" baseline at around 10k. I am not quite sure what it says about R&D in Europe but I am not sure it's good.

Over the last 2 years, I have had the privilege to be enrolled in the Polymath Initiative @TheGCSP. This initiative is generously supported by fondationprimat.org. The 1st paper to come out of this work is now published in Strategic Security Analyses gcsp.ch/publications/f….

I was recently interviewed by @yacadeuro and you can now listen to that podcast here youtu.be/tINIGMnOsIs?si…. We talk about neuroscience, academic careers and science policy.

My department @MaCSBio is looking to support 2 MSCA PF candidates this year (deadline 10 Sept. 2025). Topics: * metabolic modelling of brain cells; * sparse coding in SNNs. DM me if interested. @Mariecurie_alum @MSCActions

New preprint from @MaCSBio here biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Metabolic task analysis reveals distinct metabotypes in end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy Nihant et al.

Extending human healthspans and reducing the impacts of aging requires long-term research investments. @RenaudJolivet & colleagues from @MaastrichtU emphasize the need for funding large-scale and systems-based aging research in their @FrontPolicyLabs policy outlook ⬇️

Our new paper is out doi.org/10.25453/plabs…, with Marian Breuer, Silvia Bolognin and Shuyi Yang.

@MaCSBio is looking for candidates to support for the MSCA PF later this year for projects in cellular computational neuroscience and computational metabolism of glial cells. I am at the @Mariecurie_alum meeting in Krakow these days if you'd like to meet me for a chat.

We made the cover of @ChemMethods :) doi.org/10.1002/cmtd.2…

Join our MSc in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, now with a brand new name and renewed focus on Bioinformatics curriculum.maastrichtuniversity.nl/education/mast….

There are many good brain RNAseq datasets out there. Are there equivalent good proteome datasets, ideally at the whole genome level, for healthy brain tissue? Links appreciated.

New paper out in European Review doi.org/10.1017/S10627… Lessons from a First Decade in European Science Policy @ISE_news @Eurodoc @Mariecurie_alum @ERCGrantees

Happy to join this roster!