• Elsje van Bergen and two Norwegian colleagues just received a €1.2 million grant from the Research Council of Norway. The project, called GenEd, will focus on why dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD run in families. GenEd is an interdisciplinary collaboration from educational sciences, psychology, public health, and behaviour genetics and will take place from 2023…

On August 30th Valeria Bonapersona defended her thesis ‘Integrating information in stress research’, and was awarded cum laude for her dissertation. Congratulations on this outstanding accomplishment! Hers marks the third cum laude within CID, with Roy Hessels and Michelle Achterberg being the first two. Read Valeria’s PhD thesis

Excellent news: the NWO awarded grants to two CID members this summer. Caroline Junge got a Vidi grant for BRAVECHILD, her research project on language development in children. She will be making use of YOUth data to unearth the role of brain development in language development disparities. Charlotte Vrijen received a Veni grant to dig…

The CD2 metadata project is still going strong! Right now, the CD2 team (with experts from each cohort) is working on a data taxonomy, in which we identity the commonalities and gaps throughout the cohorts. Also, we’re sketching the first draft for an interface. Soon, we will organize a feedback session for the CID community!…

On May 20th the CID Meeting took place. It was a great succes with a lot of new input from all CID researchers. All given input is accesible in this mentimeter booklet! You can still watch the showcases of each work package: WP1: Bauke vd Velde & Pascal Pas WP2: Michelle Achterberg & Lara Wierenga WP3:…

On March 25th, we continued the CID Spotlight sessions with a new format. This time we had 2 talks on 1 theme: the CID COVID data. Five out of six CID cohorts collected COVID data last year. Michelle Achterberg (L-CID) and Elizabeth Buimer (YOUth) presented the findings after a year of COVID crisis. Michelle Achterberg…

The CID special issue in Developmental Cognitive Neurosciences is online! This acclaimed journal devotes an entire special issue on the interdisciplinary work of our consortium. It includes a general editorial and 16 published research articles. Alongside the special issue, we published a digital magazine to communicate the outcomes to a broader audience in an appealing way….

The annual report of 2019/2020 is online. After the success of last year, the report is formatted again as a digital magazine. In the report of coming year, we plan to give an overview of the covid-19 crisis impact, and to showcase more young CID talent. We are curious to your feedback, so please send…

Valeria Bonapersona (PhD candidate at University Medical Center Utrecht) talked about RePAIR: a power solution to animal experimentation. Prior studies’ information can reduce use of animals or increase statistical power. Valeria talked about how to use statistics to increase the power of animal experiments. Besides writing a paper, she also developed an open-source web-based tool…

With this question in mind researchers joined our meeting on 3 November. In the plenary portion we set the tone with CID project updates  as well as a progress update for the CD2 metadata project by Otto Lange. Both highlighted progress and plans, not just scientifically but also in terms of sharing information, expertise and…