Celia van der Merwe

Director, The NeuroDevelopment Variability Initiative (NDV) | NeuroDev 🇰🇪🇿🇦🇺🇸| Proudly South African

[PGC Consortium @PGCgenetics]

New preprint alert 📢: A Giant Leap for Childhood Brain Research in Africa! 🌍👶
NeuroDev is one of the largest clinical & genetic studies of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) conducted in Africa 👏🏼https://t.co/iRiskg1z6G

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

Congratulations team NeuroDev!

[Cheru Kipkemoi, PhD @patkipkemoi]

New paper alert! On behalf of the NeuroDev Project, I am delighted to share our published findings from the first year of data collection: https://t.co/vUWH4ZC0yB @eliserobinson @KirstyDonald7 @Amina Abubakar @crjnewton @NeuronCellPress @PGC_Africa (1/4)

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

Thanks to the @PGCgenetics PGC-Africa team for highlighting our work! If you or anyone you know is interested in talking about ADHD research in Africa, please get in touch!

[PGC Consortium @PGCgenetics]

I am excited to be working with the PGC Africa group as the lead for ADHD research on the African continent! @cevanderm

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

Very proud to be part of this - great work by @patkipkemoi and the NeuroDev team!

[Cheru Kipkemoi, PhD @patkipkemoi]

I am excited to share our findings from the first year of data collection of the NeuroDev Project, which includes phenotypic data from 206 cases and clinical genetic analysis of 99 parent-child trios and lessons learned during implementation: https://t.co/yq1PtFbNCA (1/7)

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@TalkowskiLab @RyanLCollins13 @harvardmed Amazing news! Congrats Ryan!

[Susan Kuo @susan_kuo_]

Early development varies enormously in autistic individuals. We clearly have much to learn about the diverse needs of the autistic community in early life, and much to learn about how to better adapt our environments to fit those needs. (1/6)

[Emilie Wigdor @EmilieWigdor]

I’m sample(c("thrilled", "honoured", "#blessed", "proud"), 1) to announce our work on the female protective effect (FPE) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is out in Cell Genomics 🎉 🧵 (1/11)
https://t.co/2YpjkcN25S

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@EmilieWigdor Amazing paper, Emily! Congrats!

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@PurdueSociology @robbeewedow @HarvardSoc @broadinstitute @PurdueLibArts @LifeAtPurdue Awww congrats Robbee! Proud of you!

[Broad Institute @broadinstitute]

A large genetic study of neurodevelopmental differences in South Africa and Kenya called NeuroDev is revealing new genetic markers, raising awareness around these conditions, and building genetics research capacity in Africa. https://t.co/gLwDPZDNS7 1/3

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@CARM1Monoxide @mkveerpn Pink is the new emo goth

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@smk_farhan And what a great job you do Sali! So happy I get to work with you in such a healthy environment 🙂

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@CARM1Monoxide That color on your though! 💜

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@Warrier_Varun Congrats Varun, excited to read this!

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@NM_Tran_PhD Way to go Nick!

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@CARM1Monoxide I am torn between really wanting to know more people that would spend their money on hippo couches, and just pure terror at what else they'd be into

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@CARM1Monoxide Also, who buys these?!

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

If you're attending the #MQScienceSummit come check out my poster on genetic findings from the NeuroDev study! @MQmentalhealth

[Emilie Wigdor @EmilieWigdor]

I’m thrilled to present our analyses on the female protective effect (FPE) against autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using the nationally representative Danish iPSYCH resource, SSC+SPARK and UKB: https://t.co/0zy3tOVAJz (1/11)

[Celia van der Merwe @cevanderm]

@ninadoak Yes it will! And hopefully we can all see each other again soon to!