Past events

Dr. Mai is a trained stem cell biologist and immunologist with a focus on the mechanisms of muscle degeneration and aging.

In this talk, Prof. van Gerven will discuss their recent advances in the development of more biologically plausible learning rules that could drive learning in brains and machines.

The Data Science Expert Series aims to bring together data science experts from around the world to Maastricht University, in order to discuss groundbreaking work.

A hallmark of nervous system aging is a decline of white matter volume and function, but the underlying mechanisms leading to white matter pathology are unknown. Here, we found agerelated alterations of oligodendrocyte cell state with a reduction of total oligodendrocyte density in the aging murine...

EnFI 2022 focuses on the field of surface engineering in its broadest sense. This rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field instigates collaborations between scientists from multiple disciplines as it contains elements from physics, engineering, biology, medicine, informatics and chemistry.

In plastics recycling, ‘quality’ is high on everybody’s list, but techno-scientific methods to either quantify or predict this quality are lacking.

This edition of the Forum is focused on PhD projects from some of the departments involved in this Forum.

The brain consumes an inordinate amount of energy with respect to its weight and understanding brain energy metabolism is crucial. Prof Renaud Jolivet will explain why this is crucial and go more in-depth on how to design models of brain energy metabolism and more.

During the fourth edition of the Dutch Agri Food Week The Netherlands will evolve around the future of our food. Visitors will get answers to the question: ‘what are we eating now, and what will be eating in 2050?’