News Archive

VIB celebrates 25 years

It's the 25th anniversary of VIB, one of our founding institutes. Cagatay Aydin represented NERF in an evening show celebrating science.

FWO fellowships for Eleonore and Alex

2022 PhD call now open

Apply before Dec 1st if you want to embark on a PhD with NERF next year

"Never a dull day"

Meet Giuliano Maggi, R&D engineer at NERF

Big rewards, better memory

In a new publication out in Current Biology, the Kloosterman lab describes the impact of reward size on memory formation.

Diversity, equity and inclusion in science

Meet NERF student Damon Verbeyst and learn more about his journey in life and science

On the cover of Nature protocols

The Urban lab's publication on imaging whole-brain activity with ultrasound made the cover

Award for Dara Niknejad!

Dara Niknejad of the Urban lab wins 'Trainee Lecture' at the 2021 meeting of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.

Reusable 3D-printed fixtures for chronic recordings with Neuropixels

Another week, another Nature Protocols paper. The Haesler and Kloosterman labs publish how to implant Neuropixels probes for chronic recording of neuronal activity in freely behaving animals

How to perform whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging in awake mice

New Nature Protocols paper by the Urban lab details how to perform and analyze whole-brain fUSi experiments

PhD defense Xu Han

Congrats to the latest PhD graduate from NERF: Dr. Xu Han from the Bonin lab!

FWO fellowships for NERF postdocs

Two members of the Haesler lab obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from FWO, the Flemish Research Foundation.