VIB scientists overview

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  • Sandrine Da Cruz lab

    • RNA binding proteins [including FUS and TDP-43] spreading in ALS
    • The role of local axonal translation in neurodegeneration in ALS and FTD 
    • Muscle innervation and the development of new therapeutic targets to treat neuromuscular disorders including ALS

  • Joris de Wit Lab
    • ERC group
    • ​molecular mechanisms of neuronal connectivity
    • role of cell adhesion molecules in synapse development and function

  • Fabian Kloosterman Lab
    • Functional and structural organization of memory circuits in the brain
    • Identification of the role of specific brain areas and cell types in memory processing
    • Use of high density electrode arrays to observe neuron-neuron communication in vivo

  • Lynette Lim Lab
    • Neuronal metabolic and transcriptomic programmes 
    • Neuronal diversity and circuit assembly in the developing mammalian cortex
    • Role of GABAergic cortical neurons in fine-tuning neuronal network computation

  • Alan Urban Lab
    • ​Deciphering the neural circuits involved in local perfusion in normal and pathological brain
    • Recording and manipulating the dynamic patterns of neural/hemodynamic activities
    • Imaging animal behaviors

  • Ludo Van Den Bosch Lab
    • ​acute and chronic axonal and neuronal degeneration and regeneration
    • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hereditary motor neuropathy, frontotemporal dementia and stroke as a paradigm for acute neurodegeneration

  • Thomas Voets Lab
    • ​​​TRP Ion Channels - Biophysics, function, (patho)physiology
    • Molecular and cellular basis of somatosensation
    • Pain - from molecular mechanisms to analgesic drug development