MaCSBio

Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology

[MaCSBio @MaCSBio]

Congratulations to our colleague @MichelleMoerel for being awarded a prestigious personal @NWONieuws Vidi grant! :)

[Michelle Moerel @MichelleMoerel]

Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an NWO Vidi grant! Over the next years, I’ll study the role of the corticothalamic circuitry in auditory attention using ultra-high MRI, intracranial EEG, and computational modeling @MaCSBio https://t.co/BdDbQppeH7

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

We've built a large and detailed scalable model of the hippocampus including realistic astrocytic territories and neuron-astrocyte synaptic mechanisms. If you are interested in applying for an MSCA PF or @HFSP fellowship in 2026, come work with me @MaCSBio @MaastrichtU.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Many thanks to EBRAINS' management to heed our call at last! I am looking forward to participating to this effort and I am really excited to see the community take the reins./end

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Really pleased to see this call finally go out! The Science & Technology Committee of EBRAINS that I chaired over the last 3 years had been pushing for such a roadmap, and did a lot of preparatory work taking inspiration from similar efforts in particle physics to plan for one./1

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

And it's officially out https://t.co/0pf64cfsqX
@PLOSCompBiol @MaCSBio @um_fse @Unimaas

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Come be my colleague!
https://t.co/XiHXxCCBnt

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

New paper out on brain energy metabolism in @PLOSCompBiol https://t.co/0pf64cfsqX

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

https://t.co/8ShCR0KXT1

More than 17k submissions to the @MSCActions PF call this year, up 7k from its "historic" baseline at around 10k. I am not quite sure what it says about R&D in Europe but I am not sure it's good.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Over the last 2 years, I have had the privilege to be enrolled in the Polymath Initiative @TheGCSP. This initiative is generously supported by https://t.co/8LVIBjv78V. The 1st paper to come out of this work is now published in Strategic Security Analyses https://t.co/CH18jgvMWF.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

I was recently interviewed by @yacadeuro and you can now listen to that podcast here https://t.co/Gho45zJmLB. We talk about neuroscience, academic careers and science policy.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

My department @MaCSBio is looking to support 2 MSCA PF candidates this year (deadline 10 Sept. 2025).
Topics:
* metabolic modelling of brain cells;
* sparse coding in SNNs.
DM me if interested.
@Mariecurie_alum @MSCActions

[MaCSBio @MaCSBio]

New preprint from @MaCSBio here https://t.co/D6NDRkQd35
Metabolic task analysis reveals distinct metabotypes in end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy
Nihant et al.

[Frontiers in Science @FrontScience]

Extending human healthspans and reducing the impacts of aging requires long-term research investments.

@RenaudJolivet & colleagues from @MaastrichtU emphasize the need for funding large-scale and systems-based aging research in their @FrontPolicyLabs policy outlook ⬇️

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Our new paper is out https://t.co/sBAms11xjn, with Marian Breuer, Silvia Bolognin and Shuyi Yang.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

@MaCSBio is looking for candidates to support for the MSCA PF later this year for projects in cellular computational neuroscience and computational metabolism of glial cells.

I am at the @Mariecurie_alum meeting in Krakow these days if you'd like to meet me for a chat.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

We made the cover of @ChemMethods :)
https://t.co/3PdQ0BegjV

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Join our MSc in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, now with a brand new name and renewed focus on Bioinformatics https://t.co/oVjy8WntZ1.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

There are many good brain RNAseq datasets out there. Are there equivalent good proteome datasets, ideally at the whole genome level, for healthy brain tissue? Links appreciated.

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

New paper out in European Review https://t.co/pr0q3zlkX1
Lessons from a First Decade in European Science Policy
@ISE_news @Eurodoc @Mariecurie_alum @ERCGrantees

[Renaud Jolivet @RenaudJolivet]

Happy to join this roster!