Pitches

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Block 1 (11.00 -12.30 hrs)

Morning Poster schedule

1	Zhiling Guan	A Pipeline to identify mtDNA SNVs from scRNA-seq datasets
2	Fleur van Kaam	Adaptive Mentalization-based Integrative Therapy for individuals with co-occurring severe Personality Disorder and severe Mental Illness: a study protocol of a controlled naturalistic longitudinal cohort study
3	Meagan Hannemann	Advanced Neuroimaging for Tracking Parkinson’s Disease
4	Maud Ritzen	An Exploration and Prioritization of Needs of People with Young-Onset Dementia and Family Carers Across the Disease Trajectory
5	Li Liang	An In Vitro Conjunctival Epithelial Model to Investigate Barrier Integrity in Ocular Surface Diseases
6	Britt Arets	Are thymus-resident plasma cells prognostic factors of thymectomy in patients with anti-acetylcholine receptor myasthenia gravis?
7	Dominique Paauw	Awareness and knowledge of dementia risk reduction among current and future health professionals: A survey study
8	Rick Voncken	Boosting associative memory in elderly by entraining theta-gamma coupling with transcranial alternating current stimulation
9	Joost van Raaij	Clozapine dosage monitoring with dried bloodspots
10	Caitlin Hibbs	Comparing pre-diagnostic symptoms of young-onset dementia and late-onset dementia in the general practice
11	Zheping Cai	CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Correction of Expanded CTG Repeats in DM1 Mesoangioblast
12	Iga Skorupska	Decoding PDE4D Isoform-Specific Modulation of cAMP Dynamics and CREB Phosphorylation Using Computational and In Vitro Approaches
13	Dina M. Mahjoob	Depressive symptoms as mediator between adverse childhood events, pelvic pain, and pelvic organ prolapse in community-dwelling men and women
14	Stephan Duijkers	Design of the VaMP multicenter study: contributing to diagnosis of dementia with mixed pathology in clinical practice
15	Bo Smeets	Developing a practical toolkit to support continued employment in young-onset dementia using participatory action research
16	Xu Chen	Effect of Time at Room Temperature on Complement Activity in Aqueous Humor Samples
17	Meichan Zhu	Effects of the vestibulocochlear implant on balance and gait in bilateral vestibulopathy
18	Maarten Otter	Executive functioning in women with triple X syndrome with and without impaired social functioning
19	Noa van der Knaap	Exploring the underlying mechanisms of chronic cerebral blood flow deficits in severe COVID-19
20	Kaili Cai	Glaucoma theranostics using annexin A5 and annexin A1
21	Chermaine Noortman	Interim effects of a combined lifestyle intervention (GOAL!) for people with SMI
22	Xu Ziyu	Investigating Microvascular Alterations and Lipofuscin Accumulation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Using Advanced Microscopy
23	Britt van den Heuvel	Linking brain and eye fluid dynamics: Multi-b-value diffusion MRI derived interstitial fluid volume relates to tear fluid AQP5 levels
24	Anastasia Galkina	Love Sync: Emotional Linkage in Romantic Couples

Morning A Pitch schedule

Charles David	A natural language processing model for predicting young-onset dementia diagnosis based on general practitioners' data from the Netherlands
Dirk Steijger	Quality of life assessment in people with dementia: leveraging natural language processing to analyse daily activities
Angelo Arias Magnasco	Transdiagnostic Polygenic and Exposome Score for Schizophrenia Predict Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Youth
	10 min discussion
Jeltje Spapens	Dopamine functioning in 22q11.2 copy number variants: A Multimodal Neuroimaging study
Amy Sylvester	Glutamate and GABA variability in 22q11.2 copy number variants: a 7-Tesla magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
Vignesh Shaju	Validation of a long-term ovine model of HIE using in vivo MRS and diffusion MRI
	10 min discussion
Magadi Tebogo-Maruping	Cell-specific molecular profiling of patient-derived neuronal cultures in sporadic Alzheimer’s disease
Yidan Zhang	APOE Gene-Lifestyle Interactions and Their Influence on Brain Health within the UK Biobank
Emily Willems	The Neuronal (Epi-)genetic Signature in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
	10 min discussion
Emma de Brabander	Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pharmacogenetics in The Netherlands: A National Online Survey Study
Isabeau van Rompuy	Needs and preferences of caregivers for people with dementia with an Indonesian or Moluccan background in The Netherlands: An Interview Study
Mariska van Pouderoijen	Opinions and preferences of middle-aged individuals on behavioral change techniques (BCTs) used in eHealth technology for healthy cognitive aging

Morning B Pitch schedule

Lis van den Boogaard	Assessing myelin changes in lesional and non-lesional white matter in patients with MS using the T1w/FLAIR-ratio: a longitudinal study
Armelle Knops	Functional mapping of the human brainstem using ultra-high field 7T fMRI
Anna van Hofslot	High resolution imaging in Huntington’s Disease
	10 min discussion
Colin Rosenau	Association between the “LIfestyle for BRAin health (LIBRA)” score and incident stroke: A 25-year follow up of the Maastricht Aging Study (MAAS)
Glenn Proctor	Lifestyle and environment to improve quality of life in the dementia care triad: a focus group study on quality of life
Lion Soons	The association between socioeconomic status, modifiable dementia risk and cognitive performance in older adults at risk of cognitive decline: a cross-sectional study
	10 min discussion
Dimitra Arsenia Barmpari	Tear Sampling: Exploring Alternative Ways of Assessing Stress Biomarkers
Nienke van de Sande	Tear fluid proteomics identifies differentially expressed proteins across different stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Yutong Wang	Tear Fluid Biomarkers and Corneal Nerve Degeneration: Insights from the Maastricht Study
	10 min discussion
Reine Ramaekers	Optimising one’s own ADHD treatment: an ESM case study
Susana Fernandez Chadily	Altered Functional Connectivity in the Periaqueductal Gray in Overactive Bladder Patients: A Resting-State fMRI Study Using Clustering Analysis
Nikki Wanders	Early differentiation capacity of human mesoangioblasts affected by tumor factors excreted by lung adenocarcinoma cells

Block 2 (13.30 -15.00 hrs)

Afternoon Poster schedule

1	Yuliya Patsyuk	Lower microstructural integrity of the locus coeruleus to entorhinal cortex pathway is related to elevated astrocyte reactivity and tau burden in cognitively unimpaired individuals: a 7T dMRI study
2	Béatrise Campforts	Management of Obesity with Semaglutide or Metformin in Patients with Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain (MOSA): A Non-Randomised Open-Label Pilot Study
3	Duan Yuanyuan	Mapping Genetic Pathways and Therapeutic Targets in Rare Epilepsy
4	Nick Welten	Modelling Glaucoma: In Vitro Pressure and Strain on Retinal Ganglion Cells
5	Damon Verstappen	On the structure of blood-brain barrier leakage heterogeneity in cerebral small vessel disease by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
6	Yorinde Kishna	Optic nerve sheath diameter measurement for non-invasive intracranial pressure monitoring in intensive care patients
7	Siddhita Jadhav	Plasma Sphingomyelins as Biomarkers for Diabetic Retinal Neurodegeneration-The Maastricht Study
8	Brinda Ramanathan	Post-genomic era: critical role of genetic counseling in a pediatric clinic
9	Justyna Gula	Predicting Outcomes in Radiofrequency Thermocoagulation: fMRI and SEEG Connectivity Biomarkers in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
10	Lotte Put	Predicting the individual disease progression of Myotonic Dystrophy patients by building models will enable improved and personalized medical care
11	Yexin Ye	Prescription Patterns in Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK): A European Survey
12	Alexandra Valeanu	Rare Copy Number Variation Networks
13	Zoë Donders	Reactivating Myelin Repair in MS: Exploring PDE4D Signaling Pathways and PDE4D Isoform-Specific Strategies
14	Peng Du	Refining the Methodology to Study Antibody-Induced Acetylcholine Receptor Modulation in Myasthenia Gravis
15	Leandre la Fontaine	Responsiveness and the minimal clinically important difference of the DM1-ActivC in myotonic Dystrophy type 1
16	Anouk Wolters	The application of magnetic nanodiscs for neuromodulation
17	Yelyzaveta Snihirova	The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Intelligence and Well-Being of Individuals with CNVs
18	Sophie Wimmers	The Lifestyle Intervention in memory clinics of General and academic Hospitals Trial (LIGHT): Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial to reduce dementia risk
19	Tessa Lin van Baal	The prevalence and clustering of (non-)modifiable dementia risk and protective factors in the Dutch population
20	Thomas van der Velde	TMSxDCS: Pharmacologically augmenting TMS for depression
21	Sander Osstyn	Trial-based economic evaluation of “Partner in Balance,” a blended self-management program for early-stage dementia caregivers in the Netherlands: the health-economic analysis plan and baseline results
22	Nahal Amini Moghaddam	Understanding Work-Home Dynamics in Employed Family Caregivers of People with Dementia: A Scoping Review Using the Work-Home Resources Model
23	Dennis Kool	Where does it all itch? Exploring the characteristics of pruritus in small fiber neuropathy

Afternoon C Pitch schedule

Milo Imbeni	Deep learning for segmentation of vessels and microglia in lightsheet microscopy volumes stained with Tomato Lectin
Liu Lyu	Hyperspectral imaging for in vivo determination of oxygen saturation
Shizhe Cai	Mutation-based Data Augmentation for Medical Imaging Segmentation
	10 min discussion
Marie Vandormael	Influencing Safety Memory: intermittent theta burst stimulation over the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Hossein Ghasem Damghani	The effects of magnetomechanical neuromodulation on neuronal firing rates in the basal ganglia: A pilot study
Aeden O'Shea	Temporal effects of a single oral dose of psilocybin on plasma circulating miRNAs in humans
	10 min discussion
Lotte Truin	An online dementia risk self-management platform for memory clinic patients and healthcare professionals: a pilot study of BreinZorg
Marit Stolte	Communicating about dementia; How to effectively communicate neuropsychological test results?
Myrthe van Schothorst	Development of the LIFE Monitor to assess implementation fidelity of a lifestyle focused approach for inpatients with mental illness
	10 min discussion
Huisin Tang	advanced retinal imaging
Subhasiny Sankar	SEEG Signal Processing for Epileptic patients: Techniques and Insights
Paul Weger	A Continuously Learning Brain-Computer-Interface for Closed-Loop Motor Control

Afternoon D Pitch schedule

Jens Soeterboek	A cross-sectional study on the association between residential noise exposure, cognitive functioning, and structural markers of brain damage - The Maastricht Study
Ankie Roedelof	Childhood Adversities in Young Females with an Eating Disorder: Prevalence and Associations with Symptom Severity, Self-Esteem and Body Experience
Melike Karaçam Doğan	The moderating role of childhood adversity subtypes on the relationship between autistic traits and psychotic experiences in the general population
	10 min discussion
Beatriz Arede	Amyloid Beta-Driven Microglial Excitation: The Role of CERTL and Complement Proteins
Freddy Leenders	Supporting the oligodendrocyte-neuron coupling: pulling back the curtain on downstream PDE4D Signaling
Jolien van der Velden	Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease: Preliminary Results of a Proteomics Study
	10 min discussion
Fuhua Zhang	Characterization of a lipid dependent anti-inflammatory pathway in Alzheimer’s disease
Marianna Rizzo	CSF ATN and α-synuclein co-pathology in AD, PD, and DLB
Lisa Koole	Oligodendrocyte precursor cells in APPswe/PS1d9 mice show distinct DNA methylation patterns
	10 min discussion
Tatyana Branco Nunes	Evaluating Temperature Variations and Feasibility of 3T MRI in DBS Implants
Sophia Gimple	The role of the subthalamic nucleus in decision-making and reward processing
Diego Asensio-Wandosell Cabañas	Are there differences in the structural lipids of the different B-cells types that influence the pathogenesis of IgG4-autoimmune disorders?

Pitches

Research Dag 2025