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Sneak preview of ERIBA MOOC round 325 Apr. 2016On May 2 the ERIBA Massive Open Online Course “Why do we age? The Molecular Mechanisms of Ageing” starts for a third round. The course is free, fun and will provide you with many insights on the why and how of ageing research. Not convinced? This sneak preview will most certainly win you over! A
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Three ERIBA PI's join forces in a new stem cell research project11 Apr. 2016Curiosity, communication and collaboration: three phrases inherent to the approach to research in ERIBA. The open offices and joined laboratories in the ERIBA building make discussions and collaborations as easy as possible. In line with this vision, three ERIBA PI’s, Gerald de Haan, Floris Fo
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Inside ERIBA: Mirjam Belderbos30 Mar. 2016How does ERIBA’s research evolve and who are the people behind it? The series “Inside ERIBA” gives you the opportunity to get to know the institute and the people that contribute to it. The second part in the series consists of an interview with ERIBA postdoc Mirjam Belderbos, who was
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Nederlandse voiceover voor ERIBA animaties (in Dutch)04 Mar. 2016Benieuwd naar waarom gistcellen en minuscule wormpjes belangrijk zijn in onderzoek naar veroudering en ouderdomsziekten? Dan zijn deze animaties over het onderzoek van ERIBA groepsleider Liesbeth Veenhoff en ERIBA Postdoc Alejandro Mata Cabana precies wat je zoekt. En de twee filmpjes zijn nu voor h
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Doctoral degree for Georges Janssens26 Feb. 2016On Friday February 19, Georges Janssens successfully defended his dissertation titled “A system wide view of replicative aging in budding yeast”. In his thesis Georges describes two new methods that were developed to study the ageing process in yeast. Using these new methods, he was
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Fundamental research to battle aneuploid cancer15 Feb. 2016All cancer therapy is conceived by fundamental research: a scientist in a lab, studying tissues, cells or molecules. The research of ERIBA PI Floris Foijer is a perfect example. He recently received a Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) grant for his research proposal titled “Identifying molecular mechanis
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New insights in replicative ageing in yeast08 Dec. 2015A collaborative research project between the ERIBA Cellular Biochemistry Lab led by Liesbeth Veenhoff and the Molecular Systems Biology group led by Matthias Heinemann resulted in some remarkable discoveries on replicative ageing of yeast. Their combined efforts recently led to a publicatio
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New stem cell collaboration for ERIBA01 Dec. 2015When two renowned institutes decide to combine their specialties to make a difference in the scientific world, this can only be supported. That idea was recognized by ZonMw , who recently honoured the research project proposal “Functional Expansion and Megakaryocyte Differentiation of Hematopoiet
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Teaching Excellence Fellowship for Marianna Bevova30 Oct. 2015ERIBA researcher Marianna Bevova has a great interest in education in the field of ageing biology. One of her recent contributions is her involvement in setting up the well received Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Why do we age? Molecular mechanisms of ageing”. And Marianna
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ERIBA MOOC rerun starts November 215 Oct. 2015“That was a superb course – sufficiently far outside my biology comfort zone to be pleasantly challenging.” One of the many positive reactions by participants of the first run of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “Why do we age? The Molecular Mechanisms of Ageing”. If you regret th