Month: September 2024

On the 23^rd of September, Amanda Foks was invited to present her research findings on age-associated immunity, including ABCs, in atherosclerosis, online at the Imperial Vulnerable Plaque and Patient meeting (VPM2024), which took place at Sevilla, Spain. The meeting was broadcasted online.

During the 6^th edition of the Graz Expert Meeting on Single-cell sequencing technologies in the cardiovascular field, held on September 15 and 16 in Graz, Austria, Jill de Mol from the group of Amanda Foks from Leiden University received the award for best poster presentation.

During this annual symposium, organized at the Medical University of Graz, basic scientists and clinicians were invited to present and discuss their recent advances with single cell sequencing technologies in the field of atherosclerosis. Amanda was invited to present her work on ‘Single cell profiling of age-associated immunity in atherosclerosis’. During the poster session, Jill de Mol presented her work on age-associated B cells as pro-atherogenic drivers in murine atherosclerosis and their association with human coronary events.

On September 15^th 2024  Assoc. Prof. Bram Slütter (ULEI) provided an online seminar, entitled ‘Resident memory cells in atherosclerosis’ for the COSTaction network AtheroNET

During an online webinar on inflammation in atherosclerosis, organized by the European Society of Cardiology, Ilze Bot lectured on the use and application of single-cell RNA sequencing in atherosclerosis. She specifically discussed two cases where such data can be of interest in target discovery and for mechanistic insight, also related to B cells.