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On Wednesday, the 12th of September, Judith Simon successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Identifying aneuploidy-tolerating genes’. Judith currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University in London.   Summary:   When cell

Leonid Bystrykh and Gerald de Haan were awarded an ITN grant from the H2020 program, funded by the EU. In this Network grant 15 PhD students, employed at academic sites across Europe , together with several industrial partners and patient organizations, aim to understand how age-related hematologica

Sonja Buisman, a MD/PhD student in the lab of Gerald de Haan was awarded a KNAW Van Walree Grant. The Academy Medical Sciences Fund makes Academy Van Walree Grants available for medical students at the Dutch university who will be giving a presentation at a foreign conference. Sonja will present he

“Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine, run a story on a recently published work from Berezikov group describing resilience to ageing in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano“. See the whole article ; https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/worms-may-hold-secret-longer-life_en.html &nb

The European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), part of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), launches a biotech start-up company Cleara Biotech B.V. (Cleara), together with its collaborators University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) and Medical University of Graz. Cleara

This review by the Berezikov Group is published in the special “Regeneration” issue of The International Journal of Developmental Biology. It presents the free-living flatworm model Macrostomum lignano and discusses the recent progress in the development of genomic tools, such as robust methods

Floris Foijer was awarded a Research grant from the KWF. He got the grant for his research “How heterogenity within a tumor leads to growth and therapy resistance”. Read the whole article on the UMCG website.  

Former ERIBA PhD student Clémence Claussin has been awarded an EMBO Long Term Fellowship. Clémence is currently a postdoc at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she is studying DNA replication in the lab of Iestyn Whitehouse. Congratulations, Clémence!

Glòria Casas Gimeno, PhD student at the Paridaen lab in the ERIBA, received the poster Prize at the 2nd International FishMed conference for her poster on the role of cellular centrioles in asymmetric stem cell division. The conference, which took place in Warsaw on the 25-27 of March, brought toge

On Monday May 7th, Esther Stroo successfully defended her thesis, entitled “The molecular role of Serf2 in development and misfolded protein aggregation.” Esther currently works at Catalyze in Amsterdam, we wish her all the best in her future career. Summary: Protein aggregation in the brain is