We are delighted to announce the third annual meeting of the Stress-NL foundation, which will take place on:

Friday November 29, 2019, in Amsterdam
venue: Trippenhuis (KNAW), Kloveniersburgwal 29

You are all cordially invited (Please register here).

The annual Stress-NL meeting is the place for fundamental and conceptual discussion about stress research. There will be ample time to interact and to discuss collaborations and future plans. The meeting is open to everybody, from MSc students to PIs. This year the meeting will focus on new projects and developments, with contributions from young talents (symposium 1) and more established (symposium 2/3) scientists.

The recipient of this year’s Ron de Kloet award is:

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Binder 
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, München, Germany

The award ceremony and lecture by Elisabeth Binder will take place at the Stress-NL meeting.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

09.15-09.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09.45-10.00 Welcome by the board of Stress-NL

10.00-11.00 Symposium 1
Rianne de Kleine – Optimizing exposure therapy for PTSD
Lynn Boschloo – Symptomatology as a key for targeted depression treatment
Jan Kroon – The unexpected effects of androgens on glucocorticoid functioning
Conny Quaedflieg – Remember to forget your fears

11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK

11.30-12.15 Ron de Kloet Award 
Award presentation followed by Award Lecture by Elisabeth Binder

1215-1315 LUNCH

13.15-14.15 Symposium 2
Marie-José van Tol – How to put a break on rumination: tracking effects of fantasizing- and mindfulness-based interventions on depressive vulnerability in the wild
Speaker TBA – BRAINSCAPES: A Roadmap from Neurogenetics to Neurobiology

14.15-14.45 TEA BREAK

14.45-15.45 Symposium 3
Benno Roozendaal / Erno Hermans- Targeted glucocorticoid treatment for HPA-axis dysfunction in post-traumatic stress disorder: toward personalized treatment
Carolina de Weerth – How gut bacteria and stress shape child development

15.45-16.00 Brainstorm / collaborations

16.00-17.00 DRINKS

The Stress-NL meeting of 2018 is over – what a great turnout we had.

This year the meeting was split into three symposia: ‘How to improve human stress measures in daily life’, ‘Stress as a translational concept: molecular and animal models’, and ‘New developments in the stress field’. In between the symposia, there was ample time to interact and discuss collaborations and future plans.

The short talks from speakers from all over The Netherlands illustrated the broad range of stress research that we are doing in the Netherlands. This year’s speakers were:

Mirjam van Zuiden, Frank Meye, Louk Vanderschuren, Eco de Geus, Angela Sarabdjitsingh, Alberto Pereira, Ahmed Mahfouz, Eva Naninck, Aniko Korosi, Sanne Booij, Wessel Kraaij, Judith Homberg, Manon Benders.

In addition, Prof. Carmen Sandi joined us all the way from Switzerland, to receive the first ever Ron de Kloet Award and give a talk on ‘Stress and the individual’.

In the coming year we will keep on pursuing our mission of combining forces between stress researchers in The Netherlands. If you have any suggestions, ideas or wish to help us in our mission, please contact us. You can join our Mailing list or follow us on Twitter to keep up to date on future events.

We hope to see you next year for the Stress-NL meeting of 2019!

The first Stress-NL consortium meeting on November 2^nd  2017 was a great success. We look back at a fruitful and constructive meeting, and it was very clear that there is an outstanding Dutch research line on stress with a variety of angles and approaches.