A bittersweet coffee and cake at the end of our workday: Maddalena and Lucia, our Italian colleagues that visited us for 6 months are returning to Italy. We enjoyed having them in our lab and will miss them!

19-22 March 2024 Barranquilla was the setting of a worldwide get together of the first nine cohorts of Jacobs Foundation research fellows. The latest chosen cohort shared their research with all the other fellows and Carolina (cohort 2017-2019) was impressed by the ambition, knowledge, and innovation of these researchers. Catching up with each other again…

21-23 February 2024 Our DPB lab was proud to welcome 44 researchers and professionals from 31 countries working on maternal perinatal stress and adverse outcomes in the offspring. Carolina is one of the two management committee members from the Netherlands within TREASURE and had the honor of hosting this first work meeting after the November…

On Thursday 25th of January, our PhD students Evie Brinkman and Nina Bruinhof went to the Stress-NL meeting in Utrecht, an annual conference day in which all Dutch stress researchers come together. Both Evie and Nina gave a short 90 second pitch in which they talked about their research project. Evie pitched her PEPO study,…

De eerste 1000 dagen van een mensenleven zijn van groot belang voor de latere ontwikkeling van een kind. Maar wat gebeurt er nou precies in deze periode? Wat is belangrijk en waar kunnen we op letten? Met deze vragen in het achterhoofd hebben we op 6 december 2023 voor de tweede keer het Symposium Beginnersgeluk…

Kelly Cooijmans successfully defended her PhD thesis on 17 November. She did great! The opponents had a diversity of questions that lead to fruitful discussions and ideas for future research. We’re so proud of our new Doctor and happy with the attention her research is getting. Congratulations Kelly!!!

On 9 November the first meeting of the COST Action TREASURE (CA22114) took place in Brussels. As member of the Management Committee, Carolina de Weerth was there to meet everybody and talk about this Action’s projects. TREASURE focuses on using an epigenetic, biomedical, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and neuroendocrinological approach to obtain scientific knowledge on maternal…

Over het eventEen goed begin is het halve werk, daar zijn wetenschap en praktijk hethartgrondig over eens. De periode vanaf de zwangerschap tot de leeftijd van twee jaar is cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling en latere gezondheidsuitkomsten van een kind. Maar hoe krijgen we die eerste 1000 dagen optimaal voor ouder en kind? Om daarop in te gaan organiseren VSV…

From 4 to 6 October, our PhD student Nicole attended the Emotions conference in Tilburg. This annual conference showcases novel research from various disciplines of emotion research, such as psychiatric and clinical work, child development, and neuroscience. The conference included inspiring keynote speeches, for instance on statistical methods for discrete data by Dr. Aaron Fisher,…

In September, our PhD student Nicole joined the NIN-Donders sleep day in Nijmegen – a meeting between labs from the Netherlands Institute For Neuroscience in Amsterdam and the Donders Institute Nijmegen. First, the principal investigators of both institutes presented their lab’s work on state of the art sleep research. Afterwards, there was an interactive poster…