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‘De Gouden Vlam’ is a national competition for the best MBO graduation report. Li did her internship in ERIBA under supervision of Stijn Mouton and Lisa Glazenburg. The aim of her project was to optimize methods to isolate RNA from Tetraselmis convolutae, a species of photosynthetic algae. Photo

On Saturday, October 4, 2025, the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), along with the departments of Genetics and Pediatrics at the UMCG, transformed into a buzzing laboratory for the annual Zpannend Zernike event! As part of the national Weekend van de Wetenschap, we welco

In a joint study, the Berezikov and Calkhoven labs explored how a specific change in a gene called CEBPA affects aging and health in a small and short-lived fish species known as Nothobranchius furzeri. This change improved the function of a protein called C/EBPα, which plays a role in aging. As a

Suzanne Couzijn and Anna Ainslie from Ellen Nollen’s lab received a grant of € 303.400 from Stichting ParkinsonFonds. Their project “Protecting against alpha-synuclein toxicity at molecular and physiological levels” aims to investigate organismal mechanisms driving alpha-synuclein toxicity,

Last week, we organized a school visit in ERIBA for around 80 school children aged ~10-12 years old. They are learning about microbiology in school, so after showing them the labs in ERIBA we did two activities with them to show them how micro-organisms are all around us. To understand the importan

RNA in situ hybridization (ISH) is a key method for visualizing gene expression patterns in complex samples. This technique is indispensable for research in development, disease, gene function, and validation of novel cell types identified using single-cell sequencing methods. Unfortunately, availab

Sara Mouton and ERIBA support at the award ceremony of the van Swinderen prize 2024 from the Royal Society for Natural Sciences (KNG) presenting her PhD thesis “Illuminating the physicochemical perspective on ageing“.

To improve the availability and effectiveness of medicines in the Netherlands, the UMCG is going tot set up the company G2 Solutions. This company must ensure that important technological developments in the field of DNA sequencing and stem cell models become profitable so that they cn be further de

It sounds like science fiction:cut out a few genes and modify the DNA. But the purposeful genetic modification of a plant, animal or human, also called “genome engineering”, has existed for a long time and is already happening. With the advanced CRISPR-Cas method it can be done faster, e

The H.G.K. Westenbrink Prize 2022-2023 has been awarded to Mandy Koopman for her thesis entitled ‘From cellular vulnerability to altered circuit activity: a systems biology approach to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis’. The research was conducted in the group of Ellen Nollen, Division of Mo