Ellender Lab
@TommasEllender
Researcher at the University of Oxford / Antwerpen - currently navigating UK - EU post-brexit post-covid travel & investigating basal ganglia circuits
The lab is slowly making the transition to bluesky: ellenderlab.bsky.social
Looking for a postdoc? Join us (tinyurl.com/22xrzaz4) and come to beautiful Antwerpen! We have projects ranging from neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration. Many funding streams available including Marie Curie Actions which closes 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
📣 Still time to apply for our Ma in Neuroscience programme (deadline 1st of June)! Kickstart your Neuroscience career at one of top universities of Belgium. 👉 Apply now: uantwerpen.be/en/study/admis… Checkout for more details: uantwerpen.be/en/study/progr…
Congratulations to (nearly officially Dr.) Macey-Dare on passing your DPhil viva with minor corrections - and thank you examiners for critically reading the quite extensive thesis!
Fun Christmas celebrations with our group last week in Antwerpen!
It's a Christmas (Lectures) miracle! 🫐 The miraculin in these berries binds to taste buds, activating sweet receptors when acid is present. Get a taste of food science in this year's #XmasLectures, supported by @CGI_Global – 29, 30 and 31 December on BBC Four.
Check out @EftychidisV paper - all about hypothalamic CCK neurons and regulation of metabolism frontiersin.org/journals/cellu…
Interested in the utility of EEG for early / differential diagnosis of dementia? Check out latest preprint from our unit (tinyurl.com/22xrzaz4): medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Great ADNP meeting last week (tinyurl.com/y6wb3ra5) in beautiful Antwerpen University setting
Great to have 2nd year Biomedical Sc. student Allicia in the lab as part of Honours College #UAntwerpen summer placement. Who knew so much could be planned in a few weeks #Ephys #Immuno #Microscopy!! Thanks to @BataveljicD for making it such a packed week!
Looking forward to #FENS2024 in Vienna. Come by our poster ' wall of wonder' on Wednesday morning - something for everyone!
Congratulation Dr. Jack @jack_g1997 - and many thanks to (twitterless) Colin Akerman and @HjerlingLeffler for the great discussions on a sunny day in Oxford!
Still some time to apply for this PhD post - it combines research and undergraduate teaching so applicants should be able to speak Flemish - sorry international community!
Geïnteresseerd om een PhD te doen in onze groep? Stuur je applicatie in! uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vacatu… 👉Deadline - 24 Juni
Geïnteresseerd om een PhD te doen in onze groep? Stuur je applicatie in! uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vacatu… 👉Deadline - 24 Juni
Very interesting talks today at Belgian Society of Pediatric Neurology meeting (bspn.be/bspn/page.asp?…) on Developmental And Epileptic Encephalopathies #UAntwerpen #UZA #Neurodevelopment #DEE
👉Blijf onze website volgen - hopelijk hebben we gauw nieuws over nieuwe PhD vacatures startende dit jaar in onze groep! 👉Keep in touch - hopefully soon more news about new PhD positions in our labs! uantwerpen.be/en/research-gr…
It is finally in print! Wow - can't believe it has already been 10+ years when some of the recordings were made... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
We're proud to have joined forces with @moversand6, @CureParkinsonsT and @SpotlightYOPD on #WorldParkinsonsDay to hand in the Parky Charter petition to Downing Street. The petition achieved 20464 signatures, all asking for more support for people with Parkinson's.