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Demaria Group: Unmasking Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Senescent Cells08 Sep. 2017Scientists of the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) unravelled the complexity of gene regulation during cellular senescence. The study, carried out in the group of Marco Demaria and in the and led by Alejandra Hernandez-Segura, was published in the journal Current Biology
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Johannes Jung was awarded the New Investigator Prize06 Sep. 2017Johannes Jung was awarded the New Investigator Prize at the 46th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Experimental Hematology in Frankfurt. Congratulations!
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Dutch Cancer Society funds ageing research22 Aug. 2017The Dutch Cancer Society has awarded funding for the Calkhoven and Demaria labs in ERIBA. The Calkhoven team (http://eriba.umcg.nl/groups/gene-regulation-in-ageing-and-age-related-diseases/) will use this funding to investigate the role of mitochondria in the maintenance of cancers that are driven b
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Join the discussion; registration is still open26 Jul. 2017www.bioageing.nl
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Late breaking Abstracts submission expires July 3125 Jul. 2017http://www.bioageing.nl
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Duplicating DNA: how Mms1 interacts with specific DNA motifs to control genome integrity15 Jun. 2017Scientists of the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing discovered that the protein Mms1 interacts with G-rich motifs in the genome that can form stable DNA structures in regulation of DNA replication and genome integrity. The research by Katharina Wanzek and others was performed in
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Judith Paridaen awarded a NWO VIDI grant06 Jun. 2017Judith Paridaen, principal investigator at ERIBA, was awarded a VIDI grant (€ 800.000) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of their Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. The Vidi grant aims at supporting scientists who have carried out successful research for a
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Thesis defense David Porubsky March 2714 Apr. 2017On Monday March 27 at 4.15 pm David Porubsky defended his PhD thesis entitled “Haplotype resolved genomes” in the Academiegebouw of our University. David started his PhD work in ERIBA in September 2012. He has been supervised by Peter Lansdorp and Victor Guryev. His thesis explores the p
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Switching to the enemy’s side: how a Huntington’s disease protein turns good cellular proteins bad13 Apr. 2017Scientists of the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing discovered that neurodegenerative disease-associated proteins hijack normal cellular proteins to promote their own aggregation and toxicity. The research by Olga Sin and others resulted from the collaboration between the researc
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A novel perspective on the pathogenesis of pediatric leukemia11 Apr. 2017In a recent study, scientists from the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing provide a novel perspective on the biological processes in childhood leukemia. On April 10, the research article “Clonal selection and asymmetric distribution of human leukemia in murine xenografts reveale