Assistant professor @KULeuvenKulak |Inflammation, Proteolysis, Neutrophils & Macrophages 🧠🫁🩸| Also 💕🎨🐈🧶
Joined February 2013
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Our latest #research is out:
Comparative CSF proteomics in EAE vs. cuprizone demyelination models using Olink.🧠
🔗 rdcu.be/fiDBe
Published with @SpringerNature in Molecular neurobiology.
#Neuroscience #Proteomics #MSresearch
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📢 We're hiring! 🔬
Fascinated by the immune system? Eager to study immune cell proteases and their role in inflammation? We're looking for a highly motivated researcher to join our team!
🔗kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit…
#Immunology #AcademicTwitter #AcademicJobs #PhDjobs
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
7 Nov 2024
📢We are hiring on several levels: research admin (50%), PhD student and post-doc! 🧑🔬👩🔬🧪🧬🧫
Official job postings to follow but if you already agree that tumor ecosystems and translational systems biology are totally awesome...
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8 Nov 2024
🚀 Our research on macrophage protease activity was just published in @iScience_CP! 📄🔬 Discover how IL-4 and LPS/IFN-γ differently influence MMP activity and localization. #Macrophages #Immunology #Research cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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2 Apr 2024
📢 New PhD position available in my group! 🔬
Fascinated by the immune system? Eager to study immune cell proteases and their role in inflammation? I seek a highly motivated person to join my research team!
kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit…
#PhDposition #ResearchOpportunity
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27 Nov 2023
🚀 Excited to share that I’ll join @KULeuvenKulak Kortrijk as assistant professor in Jan 2024! 🧪🔬 Eager to cultivate young minds 👩🏻🏫, explore new horizons👩🏻🔬, and contribute to this vibrant community✨. #Immunology #Education #Research
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
2 Nov 2023
Check out a great symposium called “Proteolysis at the membrane-from signaling to disease” on May 13-16, 2024 in Munich, Germany. All details can be found at dzne.de/secretases2024. Hope to see you there.
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
30 Jun 2023
👏Kudos to Eline Bernaert, winner of the FEBS Open Bio Poster Prize at “Crosstalk between the ECM & proteases from destruction to regeneration” FEBS Advanced Course in Rehovot presenting "Macrophages shift subcellular metalloprotease activity depending on their activation state"
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28 Jun 2023
Congratulations to Eline for winning the poster prize at the ECM and protease meeting in Israel @WeizmannScience! A proud supervisor moment for me! 🥳🤩
#Proud_Supervisor #FEBS2023_ECM_Proteases
@FEBSnews
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
21 Jun 2023
Jennifer Vandooren from KU Leuven is talking about neutrophil and macrophage proteases and how they impact inflammatory processes @JennVandooren @WeizmannScience
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❗️Highly recommended and important podcast! #womeninscience
Leadership in science: how female researchers are breaking up the boys’ club nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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5 Feb 2023
Very grateful to receive funding from the Belgian Charcot Foundation for our research on metalloproteases in MS @KU_Leuven.
fondation-charcot.org/nl/lau…
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Binnenkort loop ik 20 km door Brussel ten voordele van de Charcot Stichting voor fundamenteel MS-onderzoek in België. Steun mijn actie via deze link!
fondationcharcotstichting.ko…
#MultipleSclerosis #fundraising
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
11 Feb 2022
CAPTION THIS! 👇👇👇 Fantastic idea @amsocmatbio !
11 Feb 2022
It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science! A while ago our society created this amazing #namecloud to celebrate all the #awesome women of #ECMatrix, and this year we're doing something BIGGER!
Just a teaser now, but soon...
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
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Happy #WomenAndGirlsInScience day! So happy to work with incredibly talented #WomenInScience every day. 👩🏻🔬👩🏽🔬🧑🔬👩🏿🔬 #WomenInSTEM
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7 Feb 2022
So happy to receive funding from the Belgian Charcot Foundation for my research on microglia-associated enzymes in multiple sclerosis.
fondation-charcot.org/en/win…
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23 Dec 2021
We don’t often put small molecules on the cover of @ScienceMagazine but the paxlovid development story (handled with inspiring acumen by @ValdaVinson) is medchem at its sterling best. Congrats and thanks to the whole Pfizer team on their exceptional work! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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29 Nov 2021
🥳Celebrating the acceptance of my review manuscript covering the topic of my FWO postdoc project!
Online now: Alpha-2-macroglobulin in inflammation, immunity and infections frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
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Jennifer Vandooren retweeted
18 Nov 2021
Just Published: Atypical response to bacterial co-infection and persistent neutrophilic broncho-alveolar inflammation distinguish critical #COVID_19 from influenza: buff.ly/3DyofNe
@KU_Leuven
#Immunology
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18 Nov 2021
🚨 Excited to share our latest research on neutrophilic broncho-alveolar inflammation in critical COVID-19 and influenza -> JCI Insight - insight.jci.org/articles/vie…
What a great team effort 💪🏻
#teamwork
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