Kick-off ARC study in Ivory Coast This week we launched 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 a part…

Much attention for the latest BIBO paper The newest publication from the BIBO-study, about parent-infant room-sharing during the first 6 months of life, gained a lot of attention from the (social) media. The press release can be read here (in Dutch: https://www.ru.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/vm/bsi/2018/baby-slaapkamer-ouders/ and in English: https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/bsi/2018/baby-sleeping-parental-bedroom/). Maybe you have seen or heard Roseriet Beijers coming by on Editie NL, BNR…

Radiodoc: From the baby and the sleep The Flemish radio maker Joyce de Badts has young twins who are refusing to sleep in their own bed during the night. She talks about this sleeping problem with other parents, professionals, and scientists, including Roseriet Beijers. This radio documentary can now be heard on: https://www.nporadio1.nl/radio-doc/onderwerpen/472478-van-de-baby-en-de-slaap

Young Investigator Award for Pamela Browne! One of our PhD-students, Pamela Browne, has recently been awarded a Young Investigator Award (YIA) by the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN)! The YIA is an award for young investigators to present their research at the ESPGHAN Annual Meeting, this year held in Geneva (Switzerland)…

Veni grant for Roseriet Beijers! Congratulations! Roseriet won a prestigious personal Veni research grant from NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Only around 10% of applicants are granted this research grant so this makes us very happy to announce this news and extremely proud of Roseriet as well. Over the next years, Roseriet will carry…

Summer School course 2018 In August we spent a wonderful week teaching our Radboud Summer School course Early Programming: How Early Life Shapes Human Development. We had a group of 17 highly motivated students, mostly working on their PhDs, and eager to spend a summer week learning something new about early development. The students came from…

VNOP 2018 Best Flash Talk Award for Pamela Browne Congratulations to our PhD-student Pamela Browne! She was recently awarded the VNOP 2018 Best Flash Talk Award at the annual conference of the Dutch Society for Developmental Psychology. Pamela presented the results of a study about the association between maternal postnatal psychosocial distress (i.e. anxiety, stress, and depression) and…

Developmental leaps in babies Following a new edition of the book Oei, ik groei!, Carolina de Weerth was interviewed. This book is intended to help parents understand their baby and toddler’s development. Parents can use the book to check what their baby or child should be able to do at a certain age and which behavior…

Vici-grant for Carolina de Weerth! Our lab is very happy to announce that Carolina won a 1.5 million euro Vici research grant from NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). The prestigious Vici grant is one of the largest individual scientific prizes in the Netherlands. This year, the NWO awarded 35 Vici grants in total, distributed…

Visit Anna Truzzi During the month of February, Anna Truzzi is visiting our lab. Anna graduated in Psychology – Neuroscience and is currently doing her PhD in Psychological and Educational Sciences at the University of Trento. Within her PhD she is working on a joint project between University of Trento (Italy), RIKEN Brain Science Institute…