The 4th annual symposium of Stress-NL will take place on July 7, 2022, in Utrecht. Registration is now closed, but on-site registration is still possible. The Stress-NL symposium is back after a gap of three years, and we are excited to bring you an inspiring day covering past, present and future of stress research in the Netherlands.

We are honored to announce the keynote speaker and winner of this year’s Ron de Kloet award for excellent career contributions to stress research: Stafford Lightman from the University of Bristol, who will attend the meeting in person to accept the award.

Preliminary program:
9:00 Welcome / coffee
9:45 Opening
10:00 Session 1 – Past: presentations of prominent papers published in the past three years (confirmed speakers: Valeria Bonapersona, Utrecht; Anna Kuranova, Groningen/Nijmegen; Saskia Koch, Nijmegen; Niek Brosens, Amsterdam).
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 2 – Future: Recently funded new projects (confirmed speakers: Neeltje van Haren, Rotterdam; Marloes Henckens, Nijmegen).
12:00 Lunch (including speed dates)
13:15 Ron de Kloet award and keynote lecture with Stafford Lightman
14:00 Coffee break
14:30 Session 3 – Future: Recently funded new projects (confirmed speakers: Frank Meye, Utrecht; Brenda Penninx, Amsterdam; Sinan Gülöksüz, Maastricht)
15:15 Session 4 – Talent of the moment (early-career researcher pitches)
16:15 Closure
16:30 Drinks & snacks

Venue
BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, Pauwstraat 13A, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Registration
Registration fee is only €35, include lunch and drinks. Early-career researchers can submit a topic for a pitch (session “Promising Present”). On-site registration is still possible.

The 2019 Stress-NL meeting was held in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. A beautiful location to discuss collaborations and future plans. This year’s meeting focussed on new projects and developments, with contributions from young talents (symposium 1) and more established (symposium 2/3) scientists, including:

Rianne de Kleine, Lynn Boschloo, Jan Kroon, Conny Quaedflieg, Marie-José van Tol, Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Benno Roozendaal, Erno Hermans, Carolina de Weerth

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Binder (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, München) received the Ron de Kloet award and gave an award lecture: “Genes and environment – convergent pathways?”

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 2020 Stress-NL symposium.

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.