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Monday October 24th, there was an official naming of our ERIBA seminar room. The seminar room is named after the late Professor Marten Hofker. Professor Hofker was employed as a Professor in Molecular Genetics at the UMCG. With this naming we honor him, as his contribution was instrumental in the fi

Folkert Kuipers PhD (1957) will act as Scientific Director of ERIBA and head of the Department of the Biology of Ageing at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) from August 1st, 2022. Folkert studied biology/biochemistry at the University of Groningen (UoG) and received his PhD degree in Me

Marco Demaria received a grant of 776.028 euro’s from KWF. In his research he focused on interventions that counteract the negative long-term effects of chemotherapy. View the whole article here (in Dutch): KWF subsidie voor Marco Demaria (umcg.nl)

On April 12 people of the “HOOFDZAKEN” organisation were on a working visit in ERIBA. “Hoofdzaken”is a collaboration between de Hersenstichting, MIND, ZonMW,NWO and LSH/Health Holland. View the link for the article about the visit (in Dutch)   https://www.hoofdzaken.nl/n

cGAS-STING drives IL6-dependent survival of chromosomally instable cancers by Christy Hong, et al Chromosomal instability (CIN), the tendency of cells to misdistribute chromosomes during mitosis, is a hallmark  feature of cancer cells. As healthy cells rarely display CIN, targeting cells with CIN i

The developmental stage of the medulloblastoma cell-of-origin restricts Hedgehog pathway usage and drug sensitivity A study by Smit, Martini et al.   Out now in Journal of Cell Science –   SHH medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer, originates from the cerebellar granule neuron progenit

UMCG’s ERIBA joins forces with the UK MSD Discovery Centre for boosting resilience to age-related neurodegeneration Researchers from the UMCG European Institute of Biological Ageing (ERIBA) recently started a collaboration with the MSD Discovery Centre in London. Together they will investigate the

Christine Müller, Laura M. Zidek, Sabrina Eichwald, Gertrud Kortman, Mirjam H. Koster and Cornelis F. Calkhoven eLife 2022; 11: e62625 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.62625 Obesity is usually characterized by fat accumulation in enlarged – hypertrophic – adipocytes that are a source of inflammatory medi

REGENERATE-IT: learning from animals how to regenerate  Eugene Berezikov received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (DN) grant and will coordinate the project entitled REGENERATE-IT, which brings together researchers working on different regenerative model organisms in order to understand

Britt A. Sterken, Tobias Ackermann, Christine Müller, Hidde R. Zuidhof, Gertrud Kortman, Alejandra Hernandez-Segura, Mathilde Broekhuis,  Diana Spierings, Victor Guryev & Cornelis F. Calkhoven. C/EBPβ isoform-specific regulation of migration and invasion in triple-negative breast cancer cell