Prof. dr. Roger Adan

Prof. dr. Roger Adan
PI
My main position is in the department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Utrecht Brain Center. I am also a scientific advisor at Rintveld Eating disorder clinic, Altrecht, Zeist, guest professor at the department of Neuroscience and Physiology of Sahlgrenska Academy of the University of Gothenburg, and expert at EFSA’s working group “Added Sugars”. My research focus is on deconstructing the mechanisms underlying eating behaviour, since this is a natural behaviour ideally suited to dissecting the neural circuits that underlie decision-making, anxiety, impulsivity and reward seeking. I am devoted to unravel mechanisms underlying eating disorders. Besides understanding what circuits underlie obesity, the main topic is to unravel the neurocircuitry that underlies Anorexia Nervosa.

Mieneke Luijendijk

Mieneke Luijendijk
Animal facility manager
My main task is that the work in the animal facility can continue. Important tasks are the laboratory animal administration, annual reporting to the IvD/NVWA on the number of animals used, supervising compliance with the rules, animal welfare, training of animal workers on new techniques and managing animal care and support staff. In addition, I support researchers in performing operations on rats and/or mice and conducting experiments.
Stereotactic surgery, Behavioral tasks, Anorexia Nervosa mouse model all in rats and mice

Fabien Ducrocq

Fabien Ducrocq
Postdoc
My research aim at identifying neuronal populations that drive symptoms such as decreased feeding and hyperactivity linked to the development of Anorexia Nervosa in a laboratory mouse model.
Slice electrophysiology, Anorexia Nervosa mouse model, Reward processing

Eileen Brouwer

Eileen Brouwer
PhD student
My research project aims to unravel neuronal alterations in Anorexia Nervosa using the activity-based anorexia mouse model.
Activity-based anorexia model, immunocytochemistry, scRNAseq

Nick Papavoine

Nick Papavoine
PhD candidate
My research focus is to unravel the effects of leptin on hyperactivity observed in Anorexia Nervosa. Therefore, I am aiming to identify the neuronal populations mediating leptins effect in observed hyperactivity in the Activity-based Anorexia mode
Fiber photometry, Activity-based anorexia model, pharmacological manipulations

Bart Lodder

Bart Lodder
PhD student supervised by Prof. Bernardo Sabatini, located at Harvard Medical school
My research aims to understand the heterogeneity of dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum, through development and implementation of novel optical methods like tapered photometry and Fluorescent lifetime photometry.
Dopamine, Nucleus accumbens, Dorsal striatum, Tapered photometry, Fluorescent lifetime photometry

Iris Stoltenborg

Iris Stoltenborg
PhD student
I’m conducting my research at Gothenburg University in Sweden, where Roger A. H. Adan is a guest professor. The aim of my research project in the lab of Suzanne Dickson (under the supervision of Roger) is to target and further unravel which neurons and pathways are engaged by orexigenic stimuli such as the hunger hormone ghrelin and food cues.
Transgenic mouse models, RNAscope, DREADDs

Recent papers

Adan lab

  1. EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA), Turck D, Bohn T, Castenmiller J, de Henauw S, Hirsch-Ernst KI, Knutsen HK, Maciuk A, Mangelsdorf I, McArdle HJ, Naska A, Peláez C, Pentieva K, Siani A, Thies F, Tsabouri S, Adan R, Emmett P, Galli C, Kersting M, Moynihan P, Tappy L, Ciccolallo L, de Sesmaisons-Lecarré A, Fabiani L, Horvath Z, Martino L, Muñoz Guajardo I, Valtueña Martínez S, Vinceti M. Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars. EFSA J. 2022 Feb 28;20(2):e07074. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7074. PMID: 35251356; PMCID: PMC8884083.
  2. Stoltenborg I, Peris-Sampedro F, Schéle E, Le May MV, Adan RAH, Dickson SL. TRAPing Ghrelin-Activated Circuits: A Novel Tool to Identify, Target and Control Hormone-Responsive Populations in TRAP2 Mice. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jan 5;23(1):559. doi: 10.3390/ijms23010559. PMID: 35008985; PMCID: PMC8745172.
  3. Omrani A, de Vrind VAJ, Lodder B, Stoltenborg I, Kooij K, Wolterink-Donselaar IG, Luijendijk-Berg MCM, Garner KM, Van't Sant LJ, Rozeboom A, Dickson SL, Meye FJ, Adan RAH. Identification of Novel Neurocircuitry Through Which Leptin Targets Multiple Inputs to the Dopamine System to Reduce Food Reward Seeking. Biol Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 23:S0006-3223(21)00121-9. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.017. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33867112.
  4. Flores-Dourojeanni JP, van Rijt C, Vanden Munkhof MH, Boekhoudt L, Luijendijk MCM, Vanderschuren LJMJ, Adan RAH. Temporally specific roles of ventral tegmental area projections to the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex in attention and impulse control. J Neurosci. 2021 Apr 7:JN-RM-0477-20. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0477-20.2020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33837050.
  5. Yeo GSH, Chao DHM, Siegert AM, Koerperich ZM, Ericson MD, Simonds SE, Larson CM, Luquet S, Clarke I, Sharma S, Clément K, Cowley MA, Haskell-Luevano C, Van Der Ploeg L, Adan RAH. The melanocortin pathway and energy homeostasis: From discovery to obesity therapy. Mol Metab. 2021 Mar 6;48:101206. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2021.101206. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33684608.
  6. Adan RAH, van der Beek EM, Buitelaar JK, Cryan JF, Hebebrand J, Higgs S, Schellekens H, Dickson SL. Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2019 Dec;29(12):1321-1332. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.10.011. Epub 2019 Nov 14. PMID: 31735529.
  7. Watson HJ, Yilmaz Z, Thornton LM, Hübel C, Coleman JRI, Gaspar HA, Bryois J, Hinney A, Leppä VM, Mattheisen M, Medland SE, Ripke S, Yao S, Giusti-Rodríguez P; Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative, Hanscombe KB, Purves KL; Eating Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Adan RAH, Alfredsson L, Ando T, Andreassen OA, Baker JH, Berrettini WH, Boehm I, Boni C, Perica VB, Buehren K, Burghardt R, Cassina M, Cichon S, Clementi M, Cone RD, Courtet P, Crow S, Crowley JJ, Danner UN, Davis OSP, de Zwaan M, Dedoussis G, Degortes D, DeSocio JE, Dick DM, Dikeos D, Dina C, Dmitrzak-Weglarz M, Docampo E, Duncan LE, Egberts K, Ehrlich S, Escaramís G, Esko T, Estivill X, Farmer A, Favaro A, Fernández-Aranda F, Fichter MM, Fischer K, Föcker M, Foretova L, Forstner AJ, Forzan M, Franklin CS, Gallinger S, Giegling I, Giuranna J, Gonidakis F, Gorwood P, Mayora MG, Guillaume S, Guo Y, Hakonarson H, Hatzikotoulas K, Hauser J, Hebebrand J, Helder SG, Herms S, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Herzog W, Huckins LM, Hudson JI, Imgart H, Inoko H, Janout V, Jiménez-Murcia S, Julià A, Kalsi G, Kaminská D, Kaprio J, Karhunen L, Karwautz A, Kas MJH, Kennedy JL, Keski-Rahkonen A, Kiezebrink K, Kim YR, Klareskog L, Klump KL, Knudsen GPS, La Via MC, Le Hellard S, Levitan RD, Li D, Lilenfeld L, Lin BD, Lissowska J, Luykx J, Magistretti PJ, Maj M, Mannik K, Marsal S, Marshall CR, Mattingsdal M, McDevitt S, McGuffin P, Metspalu A, Meulenbelt I, Micali N, Mitchell K, Monteleone AM, Monteleone P, Munn-Chernoff MA, Nacmias B, Navratilova M, Ntalla I, O'Toole JK, Ophoff RA, Padyukov L, Palotie A, Pantel J, Papezova H, Pinto D, Rabionet R, Raevuori A, Ramoz N, Reichborn-Kjennerud T, Ricca V, Ripatti S, Ritschel F, Roberts M, Rotondo A, Rujescu D, Rybakowski F, Santonastaso P, Scherag A, Scherer SW, Schmidt U, Schork NJ, Schosser A, Seitz J, Slachtova L, Slagboom PE, Slof-Op 't Landt MCT, Slopien A, Sorbi S, Świątkowska B, Szatkiewicz JP, Tachmazidou I, Tenconi E, Tortorella A, Tozzi F, Treasure J, Tsitsika A, Tyszkiewicz-Nwafor M, Tziouvas K, van Elburg AA, van Furth EF, Wagner G, Walton E, Widen E, Zeggini E, Zerwas S, Zipfel S, Bergen AW, Boden JM, Brandt H, Crawford S, Halmi KA, Horwood LJ, Johnson C, Kaplan AS, Kaye WH, Mitchell JE, Olsen CM, Pearson JF, Pedersen NL, Strober M, Werge T, Whiteman DC, Woodside DB, Stuber GD, Gordon S, Grove J, Henders AK, Juréus A, Kirk KM, Larsen JT, Parker R, Petersen L, Jordan J, Kennedy M, Montgomery GW, Wade TD, Birgegård A, Lichtenstein P, Norring C, Landén M, Martin NG, Mortensen PB, Sullivan PF, Breen G, Bulik CM. Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa. Nat Genet. 2019 Aug;51(8):1207-1214. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0439-2. Epub 2019 Jul 15. PMID: 31308545; PMCID: PMC6779477.
  8. Verharen JPH, van den Heuvel MW, Luijendijk M, Vanderschuren LJMJ, Adan RAH. Corticolimbic Mechanisms of Behavioral Inhibition under Threat of Punishment. J Neurosci. 2019 May 29;39(22):4353-4364. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2814-18.2019. Epub 2019 Mar 22. PMID: 30902868; PMCID: PMC6538860.
  9. Verharen JPH, de Jong JW, Roelofs TJM, Huffels CFM, van Zessen R, Luijendijk MCM, Hamelink R, Willuhn I, den Ouden HEM, van der Plasse G, Adan RAH, Vanderschuren LJMJ. A neuronal mechanism underlying decision-making deficits during hyperdopaminergic states. Nat Commun. 2018 Feb 21;9(1):731. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03087-1. PMID: 29467419; PMCID: PMC5821846.
  10. van der Plasse G, van Zessen R, Luijendijk MC, Erkan H, Stuber GD, Ramakers GM, Adan RA. Modulation of cue-induced firing of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons by leptin and ghrelin. Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Dec;39(12):1742-9. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.131. Epub 2015 Jul 17. PMID: 26183405; PMCID: PMC4722241.
  11. Adan RA. Mechanisms underlying current and future anti-obesity drugs. Trends Neurosci. 2013 Feb;36(2):133-40. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2012.12.001. Epub 2013 Jan 8. PMID: 23312373.
  12. Meye FJ, Trezza V, Vanderschuren LJ, Ramakers GM, Adan RA. Neutral antagonism at the cannabinoid 1 receptor: a safer treatment for obesity. Mol Psychiatry. 2013 Dec;18(12):1294-301. doi: 10.1038/mp.2012.145. Epub 2012 Oct 16. PMID: 23070073.
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