Synaptic gene groups as risk factor for schizophrenia identified
17-10-11CNCR scientists identify synaptic gene groups as risk factor for schizophrenia Esther Lips and Danielle Posthuma from the department Functional Genomics (CNCR, NCA) publish their findings on the role of functional synaptic groups of genes in Molecular Psychiatry.
Inspiring and productive SynSys/Eurospin workshop in Amsterdam
11-10-11Inspiring and productive SynSys/Eurospin workshop in Amsterdam on protein-protein interactions in the synapse.
Cornelisse, Posthuma and Verhage receive prestigious NWO grant
16-12-10Cornelisse, Posthuma and Verhage receive a prestigious grant from the NWO research program Complexity. This program focuses on multidisciplinary research at the area of complex systems driven by the real societal problems.
New insights mechanism of spontaneous neurotransmitter release
01-03-10The CNCR team of Sander Groffen and Matthijs Verhage discovered that the Doc2b gene is a Ca2+-sensor responsible for triggering spontaneous release events. Their findings are published as a full length article in the accelerated online version of Science on Febr 11th, 2010.
