📣 We are looking for two(!) new group leaders to join our growing research center. Both junior and senior applicants are welcome to apply. Please RT! 👉 pipositioncmn.sites.vib.be

Tomorrow is the big day! We bike to raise money for research on #stxbp1 encephalopathy. Our group from the university of Antwerp and the team from the university of Amsterdam will bike to a halfway point between our labs, so 170 km in total! For donations gofundme.com/f/mullion-doll…

Our paper on #KCNQ2 R144 variants is finally online! We showed that variants at this position lead to a gain-of-channel function, supporting our current understanding that these type of variants do NOT lead to neonatal seizures. This is however the core symptom in LOF variants

Another inspiring #SEED meeting on diagnosis and care for children with severe #epilepsy. Thanks to all the great speakers travelling to the African continent. And to the wonderful (child) neurologists, geneticists and scientists from Tunisia, Algeria and Saudi Arabia to join us!

World epilepsy day! 1/150 people have epilepsy. More awareness about epilepsy leads to less stigma. #EpilepsyAwareness #EpilepsyStigma #uzafoundation #epilepsieliga Hannah Stamberger Sarah Weckhuysen

Today the world hopefully colours purple. International Epilepsy Day is denouncing the stigma that still exist against people with epilepsy. Stronger together! weckhuysen_team Charissa Millevert Hannah Stamberger Matthias De Wachter @noorzonnekein Noor Smal Mark Kaji Nina Dirkx #EpilepsyDay

🤯 Not one (or two, or three), but four (!) VIB researchers received an award from the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation. 👏 Congratulations Hannah Bertels (Takeoka lab NERF), Ludo Van Den Bosch & Philip Van Damme (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research), and Sarah Weckhuysen (VIB Center for Molecular Neurology)!

What a great couple of days with #epilepsy #genetics friends 🤩 Thanks to Johannes Lemke and Ilona Krey for organizing this fabulous 🧠meeting 🤗 Absolutely amazing ‼️ 🇩🇰🇧🇪🇨🇵🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇪 dream team 💪 #StrongerTogether #LEGOLAS #FriendsInScience #RareDisease #PrecisionMedicine

Key point: Even if exome sequencing is negative in patients with epilepsy there are additional diagnostic options in the pipeline doi.org/10.1111/epi.17… #epilepsy #epilepsygenetics #reanalysis #DNAmethylation #transcriptomics #ILAE International League Against Epilepsy @epilepsiajourn Wiley Neuro

How to solve the 50% missing heritability in #epilepsy? We describe some ideas for that in our new review Epilepsia Allan Bayat, associated professor, Zeynep Tumer, Sarah Weckhuysen, Katrine M Johannesen #noncoding #genome #enhancer CURE Epilepsy EpilepsieNL