Recent news
February 24 - 28, 2020Two of our favourite collaborators of Maastricht University, Benedikt Poser and Dimo Ivanov, are in Boston helping us to implement and test locus coeruleus imaging at the new 7T Terra scanner. Grateful to be able to work with these two amazing experts!
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February 1, 2020The lab was awarded a major grant by Alzheimer Nederland to continue our work in understanding individual variability in locus coeruleus integrity.
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January - FebruaryTwo new postdoctoral researchers have started in the lab. Since January, Maxime van Egroo started working on locus coeruleus integrity and sleep in Maastricht. Since February, Prokopis Prokopiou started working on locus coeurleus connectivity and tau accumulation in Boston. We are all excited to work with them!
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January 16, 2020Heidi will talk about the first findings of her work of the NIH-NIA grant (Tracking the origin of tau pathology) at the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference. She will show the relationship between locus coeruleus integrity, amyloid and tau pathology and cognitive decline.
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January 8-9, 2020Joost and Nikos defended successfully their PhD-thesis! Congratulations to the new PhD'ers!
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December 12-15, 2019 Heidi, Whitney and Dimo (Ivanov, FPN) attended the second Locus Coeruleus Imaging Meeting in Magdeburg. Dimo presented his work on unravelling the sources of contrast in locus coeruleus imaging. Heidi presented her work on relating locus coeruleus - norepinephrine measures to Alzheimer's disease pathology.
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