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Doctoral degree for Clémence Claussin31 Mar. 2017On March 22nd, Clémence Claussin successfully defended her thesis, which is entitled “Homologous recombination: a Swiss Army knife for protecting genome integrity.” The genetic information required for life is stored within molecules of DNA. The complete set of DNA present in a cell is referred
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Registration Open - 2nd Molecular Meeting on the Biology of Ageing – Groningen, The Netherlands02 Mar. 2017Registration is now open and we invite you to become a part of a leading Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Ageing by submitting an abstract and register here: www.bioageing.nl
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Weilin Liu was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad01 Mar. 2017We are proud to announce that Weilin Liu, a postdoc shared between the labs of Gerald de Haan, Peter Lansdorp and Floris Foijer was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. This prize was awarded to Weilin for his excellent PhD work in the lab of Hans Jonker at the UMCG
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Olga Sin awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant.03 Feb. 2017Olga Sin, a former PhD student at Ellen Nollen’s group who graduated in 2016, was awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant by NWO. This programme allows recently graduated scientists to gain experience in a foreign top institute as an important step up in a scientific career. Olga has moved to the
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Free online course from ERIBA and University of Groningen19 Jan. 2017On the 16th of January the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) and the University of Groningen (RUG) are launching the 4th edition of the course “Why do We Age? The Molecular Mechanisms of Ageing”. This course introduces some key areas of research into the biology of ag
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The Dutch Cancer Society; Researcher of the week Floris Foijer18 Jan. 2017https://www.kwf.nl/onderzoek/welk-onderzoek-krijgt-geld/Pages/onderzoeker-van-de-week-floris-foijer.aspx
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An important step in the development of a flatworm model organism22 Dec. 2016On December 20, the paper “Transcriptional signatures of somatic neoblasts and germline cells in Macrostomum lignano” was published in eLife (http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20607). The author’s summary of the paper is presented below. An important step in the development of a flatworm model o
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Doctoral degree for Niek van Wietmarschen01 Dec. 2016After 4 years of research at the Laboratory of Genetic Instability and Ageing, Niek van Wietmarschen successfully defended his dissertation on November 30, thus earning the title of Doctor. The dissertation, titled “Genome instability, Lessons from single-cell sequencing studies
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New explanimation on stem cells from MARRIAGE20 Oct. 2016After training 15 young researchers in the molecular mechanisms of ageing, the Initial Training Network “MARRIAGE” is coming to an end. To celebrate MARRIAGE’s successful closure, an explanimation (explanatory animation) has been released that illustrates one of the core research subjects of t
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Mapping the “dark matter” of human DNA06 Oct. 2016Today, the latest paper of ERIBA group leader Victor Guryev, “A high-quality human reference panel reveals the complexity and distribution of genomic structural variants”, was published in Nature Communications. A summary of the paper can be found in the official press release: Mapping th