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On 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

 After 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

After 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

Today, 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

On behalf of all us at ERIBA we congratulate our Groningen colleague Ben Feringa with the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. What an achievement, and what a recognition for the value off pursuing important fundamental problems. With warm regards, Gerald de Haan http://www.rug.nl/news/2016/10/nobelprijs-sche

On October 1, the baton of Scientific Director of ERIBA has been passed on from Peter Lansdorp to Gerald de Haan. A good opportunity for them to say something about the past and the future of ERIBA. Peter, from everyone in ERIBA: thank you for all your work the past few years and good luck focussing

We have many excellent students at ERIBA, but sometimes one of them really stands out. The perfect example is Maria Sarkis Azkanaz. Maria, former student in research group of Floris Foijer, recently received a Saxion award for best graduation project. Although she has been trained as a technician, r

It has been a while since ERIBA opened its doors to the public, but on Saturday October 1 it is finally going to happen again. So invite all your family and friends, young and old, for an afternoon “Backstage in the world of Science and Technology” @ERIBA! In the first weekend of October, over

On July 14, the paper “Ectopic miR-125a Expression Induces Long-Term Repopulating Stem Cell Capacity in Mouse and Human Hematopoietic Progenitors” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2016.06.008) was published online in Cell Stem Cell. A joint effort between the group of ERIBA PI Gerald

They say good things come in waves, but on rare occasions they come in tsunami’s. In May 2016, a tsunami of papers from ERIBA researchers has been published. Time for an overview.     Technological developments in the past decade have enabled high-resolution measurements of various epigenetic m