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Today, I’m thrilled have our lab’s work featured on the cover of nature In this article, we have developed a therapeutic approach for a severe condition called Timothy syndrome. This has been a long journey. It started with making hiPS cell-derived neurons in 2D cultures 15

Original Article: Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases nej.md/3yP6iwE #Genetics

Please help spreading the word! Two opportunities to start a PhD in VIB Medical Biotechnology, including one project on cancer and liquid biopsies in the Katleen De Preter lab and my lab. Applications via cmb.sites.vib.be/en/jobs#/job-d….

PhD opportunities in VIB Medical Biotechnology including one in Kris Gevaert and my lab on liquid biopsies and cancer: applications via the link.

Congratulations to London Tubular Centre and all co-authors, including our very own team member Michael Vaughan 🥳👏. If you are interested in space research, go read this excellent paper!!👇👇👇

👏Today Keith Siew gave an excellent talk on his recent Nature Communications paper on the effects of spaceflight on kidneys 👏. He got the FunGen Lab @ UGent team (even more) excited about space research 🚀🧬🚀. Thanks a lot Michael Vaughan for inviting him and arranging all the logistics!

Working in Ghent, also means (Fun)Gentse Feesten 🥳! A little bit of 🌧️ does not stop us 💪 #TeamFunGen

Wauw, amazing work!

📢New from Mark Cowley & co 📰SpliceVarDB: A comprehensive database of experimentally validated human splicing variants cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…

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Throwback to last week: On Tuesday Nore Van Loon gave a talk at MAF 2024 concerning our collaborative work with Ruslan Dmitriev . On Thursday Lisa Hamerlinck and Sarah Vergult presented at the 2nd NDD conference in lovely Antwerp with great support by colleague @colombolara_.

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Well done Nore! 💪🏼

Excited to report our study in NEJM on the discovery of deletions in a long noncoding RNA gene 🧬 (𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘙) as the cause of a newly defined human neurodevelopmental disorder 🧠. 🧵1/10 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Proud of Rocío Pérez Baca for doing a great job during her talk on our collaborative work on ZFHX4, co-led by María Palomares FunGen Lab @ UGent Bert Callewaert #ASHG24

Lovely picture of awesome (ex-)Belgian geneticists at ASHG in Denver! 🇷🇴 Sarah Vergult Isabelle Schrauwen Isabelle Schrauwen Frank Kooy Elfride De Baere Rocío Pérez Baca Dale J Annear #ASHG24

Bye bye Denver! We had a great #ASHG24 meeting! So happy to meet up in person with old and new faces 🥰! And of course we mixed science a bit with other fun stuff: 🥳 and 🏀 - Go Denver Nuggets 💪🏼! FunGen Lab @ UGent Rocío Pérez Baca Elfride De Baere

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Unfortunately @colombolara_ could not present herself as she is following an exciting 💻course in Milan, but Lisa Hamerlinck, Lukas Genbrugge, Nore Van Loon, Eva D'haene and I represented the FunGen Lab @ UGent during this interesting meeting. I will also attend the final day tomorrow!