Team
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Renzo Mancuso
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Group leader
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"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads"
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Rita Cacace
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Staff scientist
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“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming; what do we do we swim swim”
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Laura Fumagalli
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Postdoc
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"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities"
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Alma Mohebiany
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Postdoc
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“If we went round the Moon, or round and round the garden like a teddy bear, it wouldn’t make any difference"
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Nicola Fattorelli
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Postdoc
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"Never tell me the odds!"
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Anika Perdok
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Postdoc
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“Don’t let the muggles get you down.”
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Anne Wienand
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Postdoc
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“Knowledge is a tricky thing.”
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Veronica Testa
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Postdoc
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"Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow"
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Filip Prica
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Postdoc
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"Dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
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Jessie Premereur
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PhD student
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“Should have burned this place down when I had the chance”
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Paula Polanco Miquel
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PhD student
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“If you think your boss is a dummy, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter”
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Gonzalo Leguía Fauró
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PhD student
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“I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman”
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Tijs Watzeels
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PhD student
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"Did you know...?"
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Baukje Bijnens
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PhD student
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"Why don't you punch your boss?"
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Miranda Lastra Osua
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PhD student
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“Hurry up, I'm missing happy hour for this”
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Maxim Van Hoek
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PhD student
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“Dobby is used to death threats, sir. Dobby gets them five times a day at home”
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Lena Jutz
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PhD student
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"Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt"
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Cindy Keller
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PhD Student
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“Just smile and wave, smile and wave...”
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Nathan Bollekens
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PhD Student
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move"
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Lisa Polzer
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PhD Student
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"Ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est."
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Heidi Denton
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Lab manager
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"Just a lab tech sitting here, waiting for my primer stock to melt, wondering how much of my work life has been spent waiting for things to melt"
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Giacomo Muscarnera
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Lab technician
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"Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make sense at all"
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Birgit Voeten
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Lab technician
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"Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"
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Tim Meese
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Bioinformatician
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"Data - yada yada yada - Paper"
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Helena Noka
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Technician
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Rita Andrade
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Bioinformatician
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Gaia Zen
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PhD student
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Mathijs Van de Voorde
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Lab technician
Lab alumni
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Joke Verbist
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Former Lab technician
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Nele Goosens
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Former Lab technician
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Irene López Gutiérrez
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Visiting PhD student
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Joana García
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Visiting PhD student
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Anna Martínez Muriana
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Former staff scientist
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Teun Klein Gunnewiek
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Former postdoc
Christmas sweater contest at the MIND lab!
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The lab went axe throwing
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Want to join our team?
Our young group is growing quickly. If you are just as interested in microglia and neuroinflammation as we are, be sure to check out the opportunities in our lab.