News archive
NWO VIDI grant awarded
NWO VIDI grant awarded! We look forward to continuing our work on understanding the fundamental mechanisms of synapse formation.
PhD defense
Agathe successfully defended her PhD - congratulations Agathe!
New BSc student
Roos joins our lab for her Nanobiology BEP project
New publication out
Agathe's paper is published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods, a refined method for protein pulldown from the mouse brain
New BSc student
Alisha joins our lab for her Nanobiology BEP project
New BSc student
Mathilda joins our lab for her independent research project (Honours Program)
Associate Professorship
With the start of the new year, Dimphna has been appointed as Associate Professor. Looking forward to advance our research on how neurons connect in health and disease.
New publication out
Angelica and Cátia's paper is published in Scientific Reports on how to image thousands of neurons in a dish
BrainTech pilot call awarded
Tu Delft BrainTech pilot call awarded to Maja and Dimphna.
Start lab technician Rosan
Rosan starts as part-time lab technician in our group, with focus on computational support. Read full article
New MSc student
Elise joins our lab for her LST MEP project
New pre-print
New pre-print with our collaborators from the Comoletti group out on BioRxiv!
AXON2025
Dimphna gives a talk at AXON2025 in Rotterdam
New PhD student
Welcome Gianluca Bandera, who starts his PhD in our group.
New MSc students
Freke and Rein join our lab for their Nanobiology MEP projects
Student project
Birgit, Cas and Fedded successfully defended their BEPs
PhD defense
Christos defended his PhD - congratulations Christos!
Surfaceome 2025
Dimphna gives a talk at Surfaceome 2025 in Scanno, IT
New internship student
Wang-Ji from Hogeschool Utrecht joins the lab for her Life Sciences BSc internship project
New PhD position available!
We have a new PhD position available. Please see here for more details. We especially encourage protein biochemists, structural biologists and protein engineers to apply!
NWO-NWA funding awarded for innovative projects
Together with Anderson Mora Cortes we received funding to further roll out the Brain Awareness Week Rotterdam, in collaboration with TU Delft
New pre-print
Our latest research paper is out as a pre-print on BioRxiv!
New BSc students
Birgit, Cas and Fedde join our lab for their Nanobiology BEP projects
New papers
Don't miss these papers with our collaborators (with Boukany lab; with van Woerden/Greplova labs)
Student project
Alin successfully defended his BEP
New PhD student
Welcome (back) Lars Aartsen, who starts his PhD in our group.
Student project
Lars successfully defended his MEP
Alternative splicing of cell adhesion molecules
Christos' paper published in Nature Communications.
New Postdoc
Welcome to Maja Napieraj, who joins our group as postdoctoral fellow.
Student project
Phuong successfully defended her MEP
New BSc student
Alin joins our lab for his Nanobiology BEP project
New pre-print
Our latest research paper is out as a pre-print on BioRxiv!
New PhD student
Welcome to Leanid Kresik, who starts his PhD in our group.
New MSc students
Phuong and Lars join our lab for their Nanobiology and Life Science and Technology (LST) MEP projects
Student projects
Nynke and Amke successfully defended their BEP projects this summer
Tech for Impact 2023
Dimphna is selected to be part of the Tech for Impact campaign. Read the full story here
New PhD student
Welcome to Angelica Casotto, who starts her PhD in our group.
New BSc students
Amke and Nynke, students from Nanobiology, start their Bachelor End Project in the group
How do neurons and oligodendrocytes connect?
New paper accepted in Nature Communications. Great collaboration with our colleagues at Utrecht University!
Review paper
Koen and Christos' review paper is published in Current Research in Structural Biology
Student projects
Martijn successfully defended his BEP project
Convergence Flagship awarded
We are part of the Integrative Neuromedicine program, that was awarded a grant of 2 million euros from Convergence Health & Tech
Convergence
Congratulations to Koen on winning the poster prize at the Convergence in Practice conference
Mini-symposium
Agathe and Christos presented their work at our mini-symposium How to build a synapse. Thanks to all attendees for great discussions!
EMBO Molecular Neurobiology
Dimphna gives a short talk at the EMBO meeting Molecular Neurobiology in Crete.
Cover image
Our paper is featured on the cover of EMBOJ
Computing Time
We are awarded a Computing Time on National Computer Facilities Grant by NWO
New BSc students
Martijn, students Nanobiology, starts his Bachelor End Project and Deep, student Biomedical Sciences (UvA), starts her internship
Paper accepted in EMBO
Our paper just got accepted in EMBO J. Many thanks to the Janssen lab at Utrecht University for a great collaboration!
Neuroscience & Engineering
Dimphna organises the 3rd Neuroscience & Engineering meeting together with Delft BEI institute
NWO XS grant for four researchers of Applied Sciences
50.000 euro NWO grant for four researchers of Applied Sciences NEWS - 10 SEPTEMBER 2020 - COMMUNICATION TNW The Board of NWO Domain Science has awarded four researchers of Applied Sciences in the NWO Open Competition Domain Science – XS. Xiaozhou Ma, Dimphna Meijer, Caroline Paul and Toeno van der [...]
Start lab technician Selina
Selina starts as lab technician in our group, shared with van Woerden group at Erasmus MC. Read full article
New BEP student
Elisa, student Life Science & Technology, starts her Bachelor End Project
New PhD student
Welcome Agathe Henocq, who starts her PhD in our group
Kavli Synergy
Kavli Synergy seed funding awarded, together with Eliška Grelopvá