Summer School 2021 Please join our next edition of our 1-week summer school on Early Programming. This highly interactive course looks into a broad range of exciting and recently discovered environmental factors and mechanisms that shape early and long-term human development, using psychological and biological perspectives. The program will consist of lectures, and a variety…

Interview NRC “I have the impression that my six month old baby develops more when she is at home. There she moves and babbles more than when she’s in other places. Out of our home it seems like she’s taking a ‘wait and see’ approach and that she’s more observant. Is it important for the…

Babysitting grandmother and baby crying “I have a five months old granddaughter who I am regularly taking care of. What do I need to do when she starts crying and fussing? Do I need to comfort her immediately?” NRC interviewed Carolina de Weerth about this question. You can read her answer here (in Dutch).

Interview VOX Why rough play is good for children? Roseriet Beijers was interviewed by VOX to answer this question. Interested in reading more about this topic? Please click here to read the full article (in Dutch).

Workshop organized by the DPBLab On September 12-13, 2019 the DPBLab organized the workshop Data Exploration and Analysis in Gut Microbiome Profiling Studies given by Dr. Leo Lahti – Adjunct Professor in applied mathematics at the University of Turku (Finland). The course provided an overview of a standard bioinformatics workflow in microbiome research and focused…

Modern statistics in human gut microbiome research 12 September 12.00-13.00 Location: Radboudumc Nicolaes Tulp Zaal, Route 606

How Early Life Shapes Human Development In the beginning of July the DPB lab organized a summer school on “Early programming: How early life shapes human development”. We were pleased to have so many enthusiastic students from several universities and eight different countries, joining the highly interactive program. Carolina de Weerth, Roseriet Beijers and Bonnie…

Data collection completed Early this month we completed data collection for our ARC study (Abidjan: Recherche sur la Cognition) in Abidjan, Côte D’Ivoire. ARC was designed to investigate the effects of dêguê enriched with a probiotic on the health and cognition of young children. Dêguê is a combination of fermented milk and millet and is already…

The Dutch Neuroscience Meeting took place on 20 and 21 June 2019 in Lunteren. Our lab was present with two talks form Carolina de Weerth. She showed results from several studies related to associations of early life stress and behavioral outcomes in early and middle childhood. She also focused on the development of the human…

Are sleep regressions real? A popular theory suggests that young children go through exactly 10 difficult periods of fussiness followed by leaps in growth, but the evidence isn’t quite so tidy. Click here to read an interesting article about this.