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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Happy to share that Marjo van der Knaap and Romy van Voorst (Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center) are featured on the Neurology Podcast, discussing international consensus recommendations for Vanishing White Matter. 🎧 Listen: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde... 📄 Read: www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

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Consensus Recommendations for Diagnosis and Management of Vanishing White Matter

Dr. Justin Abbatemarco talks with Dr. Marjo S. van der Knaap and Romy J. van Voorst about expert consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and management of vanishing white matter and the importance...

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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Steun onderzoek naar gentherapie voor Vanishing White Matter (VWM)! Jouw steun brengt ons dichter bij een oplossing! Het onderzoek biedt nieuwe hoop voor patiënten en families. Doneren en meer info via de link: www.zzf.nl/zzf-onderzoe... #VWM #ZeldzameZiekten #Gentherapie

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Steun het onderzoek naar gentherapie voor vanishing white matter (VWM)

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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

- job alert - Will you become our colleague at the Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center? See the PhD opening below, focusing on the molecular basis of fluid regulation by astrocytes in the brain. Apply using the link below: 🔗 werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicatie-1179368

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Vacatures - PhD Cellular Neuroscience - Astrocyte Physiology - Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center is looking for a motivated PhD candidate to explore the fundamental physiology of astrocytes in the brain, in the context of brain fluid regulation.

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Rogier Min @rogiermin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 PhD position in astrocyte physiology! Join us in Amsterdam to explore how astrocytes dynamically regulate brain water flow! Apply using the link below: 🧠🔬🌍 🔗 werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/publicatie-1179368 #Neuroscience #PhD #Astrocytes #MLC #SUPERGLUE

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Vacatures - PhD Cellular Neuroscience - Astrocyte Physiology - Amsterdam UMC

Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center is looking for a motivated PhD candidate to explore the fundamental physiology of astrocytes in the brain, in the context of brain fluid regulation.

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Rogier Min @rogiermin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Fresh from the lab! In this new paper, PhD student Sven Kerst shows how phenotypes observed in isolated cell models for the leukodystrophy MLC are also observed in intact astrocytes in acute brain slices! Glia | Neurobiology Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Impaired Volume Regulation and Electrophysiology of Astrocytes In Situ in a Mouse Model for Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy With Subcortical Cysts

Cell culture studies show disrupted astrocyte physiology in the leukodystrophy MLC. Are intact astrocytes similarly affected? This study on astrocytes in MLC mouse brain slices confirms and exten...

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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Marjo van der Knaap has just opened the leukodystrophy symposium in Amsterdam, celebrating both 25 years of the ALC as well as Marjo’s farewell from clinical tasks. We are very excited about the coming 2 days of white matter science!

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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A new study from the ALC reveals how Eif2b5 mutations in different brain cell types (including oligodendrocytes and astrocytes) contribute to VWM. Our findings challenge the idea that malfunction of a single cell type drives the disease. Find the article at: academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

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Cell-specific Eif2b5 mutant mice: novel insights into roles of macroglia in vanishing white matter

Vanishing white matter (VWM) is a leukodystrophy caused by a genetic defect in translation initiation, with astrocytes thought to play a key role. Triñanes

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Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center @amsterdamleuko.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

⭐ New paper alert ⭐ Our recent work on anesthetics as potential stressor inducing acute decline in patients with vanishing white matter (VWM), is now published. 📖: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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Effect of Propofol and Sevoflurane on Vanishing White Matter Models

The leukodystrophy vanishing white matter (VWM) most often has its onset in childhood and is characterized by chronic decline and additionally stress-…

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Rogier Min @rogiermin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Excited to share our latest paper! We argue that in MS, the primary immune attack isn’t on myelin or myelinated axons — but on the ion & water homeostasis machinery in astrocyte endfeet. A short thread on this new perspective 1/11

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Rogier Min @rogiermin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My first post in the sky is a: Job Alert! We are looking for a PhD student to study astrocyte dysfunction in the rare neurological disease MLC. Looking for a challenge? See the job advertisement below! werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

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Vacatures - PhD Understanding and repairing astrocyte dysfunction in the leukodystrophy MLC - Amsterdam UMC

The Amsterdam Leukodystrophy Center is searching for a motivated PhD candidate, for a collaborative project on understanding astrocyte dysfunction in the leukodystrophy MLC.

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