On the 12th of April the team went to Leuven for the Annual BeSHG (Belgian Society for Human Genetics) meeting. Delfien was selected to present "Matrisome expression patterns in murine and human dorsal root ganglia".
Ruben presented his poster on "Alterations in neurite outgrowth of dorsal root ganglia neurons from a mouse model of classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome", Jana on "Understanding human linkeropathies: study of the phenotypic and molecular consequences of defective biosynthesis of the glycosaminoglycan tetrasaccharide linker region" and Zoë had a poster on "Zebrafish as a model to study pain in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes".
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On the 21st of March Ruben and Jana went to the annual Research Day for all researchers from the faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. They were accompanied by the master students that are working in the lab at the moment. During this day there were presentations by students and researchers, workshops and lectures by international guest speakers. Ruben presented his poster titled "Alterations in neurite outgrowth of dorsal root ganglia neurons from a mouse model of classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome".
"Deel je kleuren” is het thema van de Zeldzame Ziektendag campagne. Door kleuren te delen, toon je je steun voor mensen die leven met een zeldzame ziekte. In België alleen al zijn er meer dan een half miljoen mensen met een zeldzame ziekte. Zeldzaam is dus helemaal niet zo zeldzaam! #deeljekleuren #rarediseaseday #samenzeldzaam Het CMGG doet alvast mee!
Together with Eds.Vlaanderen, UZ Gent organised the first symposium about symptomatic hypermobility in Flanders on the 24th of Februari.
There were talks given by Prof.dr. Fransiska Malfait, Dr. Marijn Marijn Vis, Dr, Ruth Van der Looven, Prof. Dr. Mark Scheper (PT, PhD), Dr. Griet Brusselmans, Dr. Stefanie Hödl, Dr.Emile Janssen , Dr.Inge De Wandele, Hanne De Schacht, Paul Sercu, Prof.Veerle Foulon and Nathalie Schelpe. The symposium was fully booked and a big success with regard to the subject matter. More info (in Dutch) can be found on www.eds.vlaanderen. Marie Coussens successfully defended her PhD entitled ‘Muscle and bone parameters in individuals with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and Osteogenesis imperfecta’ on October 11th, supervised by Prof. Dr. Patrick Calders, Prof. Dr. Fransiska Malfait, and Dr. Lies Rombaut. Congratulations Dr. Coussens!
Marlies Colman successfully defended her PhD entitled ‘Unexplored clinical and molecular consequences of the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes’ on September 27th, supervised by Prof. Dr. Fransiska Malfait, Dr. Delfien Syx and Prof. Dr. Jessica Van Oosterwijck. Congratulations Dr. Colman! Marlies will continue her training to become a rheumatologist.
Our team in action during the Symposium: Genetically Defined EDS: Strategies and Solutions for Unmet Needs, at the beautiful Poortackere Monasterium in Ghent, Belgium (August 2023) Presenting our work, meeting colleagues, and enjoying lobster at the Gordon Research Conference on Collagen, Colby -Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, July 2023.
Our team will be presenting at The Ehlers Danlos Society about Genetically Defined EDS: Strategies & Solutions for Unmet Needs. This conference takes place in Ghent from on the 30th and 31st of August.
Our team will be presenting at the Collagen Gordon Research Seminar, where Delfien is chair, and at the Collagen Gordon Research Conference. This takes place from the 8th till the 14th of July at the Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire, USA.
Delfien received a research grant for young researchers from Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation for Neurosciences for her project "Zebrafish as a model to study pain in Ehlers-Danlos syndromes". She received it out of the hands of Her Royal Highness Princes Astrid during the academic session in the Royal Palace in Brussels.
Save the date: ReCONNET, the first international congress on rare and low-prevalence connective tissue and musculoskeletal diseases, takes place in Brussels from the 20th until the 22nd of April.
Thanks to the ERN exchange program, Karelle Bénistan and Caroline Michot from APHP (Paris) could spend a week in Ghent and visit our clinic and lab at the CMGG. We had very interesting and fruitful discussions on ongoing research projects and clinical challenges regarding the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes.
Thank you ERN Reconnet! Learn more about Zebrapad here: www.zebrapadvzw.be
ACRehab, the postgraduate academy for physiotherapy at Ghent University, organised an accredited course. This course took place on the 13th of December and was titled: Hypermobility, how do you handel this? The lecturers were Inge De Wandele, Lies Rombaut, Hanne De Schacht and Nathalie Schelpe. More information, in Dutch, can be found in the document below. ![]()
On the 13th of December Robin gave a technical talk on his transcriptomal work about the matrisome of the murine and human dorsal root ganglion at the GOA consortium meeting.
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