ERC Advanced Grant for Huib Mansvelder

As a result of a power failure, VU's network and systems briefly went down this morning. Several systems need time to restart. The Service Desks are also currently unavailable by phone. Huib Mansvelder, neuroscientist at VU Amsterdam, has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). In this five-year research program, he will study molecular mechanisms of information processing by genetically-defined cell types in the human brain. One of the big questions Mansvelder tries to answer is whether specialised cell types in the human brain have particularly evolved to rapidly process large quantities of information, and how they manage to do that. In his ERC research, Huib Mansvelder aims to study what molecular mechanisms enable neurons in the brain to process large amounts of information, without slowing down or showing much signs of fatigue.