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Jaskaren Kohli has been awarded a prestigious Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Union.  He will be hosted by the Demaria laboratory to investigate what mechanisms underlie survival in senescent melanocytes, and whether interfering with these pathways can induce death of melanocytic

Gerald de Haan was awarded a research grant from the Landsteiner Foundation for Blood Transfusion Research (LSBR) to study the role of a novel cell surface receptor that his team has discovered to be preferentially expressed on very primitive hematopoietic stem cells. This receptor, Neogenin-1, is u

December 11, Mohamad Amr Zaini successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Post-transcriptional Control of C/EBPα and C/EBPβ Proteins – Insights into their role in energy homeostasis and disease”   C/EBPα and C/EBPβ proteins are transcription factors playing important roles in the

This collaborative effort led by scientists from the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) describes the development of the transgenesis method and annotated genome sequence for the flatworm Macrostomum lignano. Flatworms are known for their amazing regenerative capabilities,

Mohamad Amr Zaini of the Calkhoven laboratory receives the scientific presentation award from Prof. Dr Björn Schumacher, the president of the German Foundation of Aging Research, which was held in Cologne, December 2-3. Cellular metabolism is a tightly controlled process in which the cell adapts fl

Seka Lazare and Gerald de Haan have written an exhaustive review on how stem cells that produce all the blood cells in our body lose functional potential during the aging process. This review was published in BLOOD, the leading journal in the field of Hematology. In the review they discuss molecular

On Monday, the 23rd of October, Hilda van den Bos successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled “Aneuploidy in the human brain and cancer. Studying heterogeneity using single-cell sequencing.” Thesis summary: Aneuploidy, an aberrant number of chromosomes in a cell, is a feature of several syndr

On Saturday October 14 ERIBA was part of an event called “Zpannend Zernike” for the second time. A lot of people came to visit and could experience a bit of science.

ERIBA organised for the second time the Molecular Biology of Ageing Meeting, from the 8th to the 11th of October 2017 at the premises of UMCG. More than 200 participants from 64 different institutions worldwide attended the four-day Meeting. Andrew Dillin (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at