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We are proud to announce that Weilin Liu, a postdoc shared between the labs of Gerald de Haan, Peter Lansdorp and Floris Foijer was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. This prize was awarded to Weilin for his excellent PhD work in the lab of Hans Jonker at the UMCG

Olga Sin, a former PhD student at Ellen Nollen’s group who graduated in 2016, was awarded a prestigious Rubicon grant by NWO. This programme allows recently graduated scientists to gain experience in a foreign top institute as an important step up in a scientific career. Olga has moved to the

On the 16th of January the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) and the University of Groningen (RUG) are launching the 4th edition of the course “Why do We Age? The Molecular Mechanisms of Ageing”. This course introduces some key areas of research into the biology of ag

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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