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C/EBPβ-LIP induces metabolic reprogramming by regulating the let-7/LIN28B circuit.01 Jul. 2019In this publication the Calkhoven lab shows that the C/EBPβ protein isoform LIP induces aerobic glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration, reminiscent of metabolism in cancer cells. LIP-induced metabolic programming is dependent on the RNA-binding protein LIN28B, a translational regulator of glycoly
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an honorary doctorate was awarded to professor Titia de Lange from Rockefeller University25 Jun. 2019On June 13, at the occasion of the 405th anniversary of the University of Groningen, an honorary doctorate was awarded to professor Titia de Lange from Rockefeller University. Titia de Lange has made seminal contributions in the field of cancer and aging biology. Gerald de Haan acted as the honorary
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Arun Thiruvalluvan has been awarded an EMBO Poster prize20 Jun. 2019Arun Thirauvalluvan has been awarded an EMBO poster prize; DNAJB6,a key factor in neural stem cell resistance to polyglutamine protein aggregation.
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ERIBA Career Day 201930 Apr. 2019On Wednesday 24 April 2019, the second edition of the ERIBA Career Day took place, introducing PhD students and Postdocs to career opportunities outside of academia. A variety of enthusiastic guest speakers shed light on their motives to leave a traditional academic career behind, letting personal t
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8.5 million for Healthy Ageing and vitality research30 Apr. 2019The ERIBA/UMCG is part of a multidisciplinary network of Dutch institutions that was awarded 8,5 million Euro from ZonMW and HealthHolland. This large public-private partnership, involving the ERIBA spinoff Cleara Biotech, will jointly attempt to identify novel therapies to reduce muscle and bone lo
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A thorough characterization of structural variants in human genomes17 Apr. 2019A large international team of researchers from the Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC), including the Lansdorp laboratory and Victor Guryev at the ERIBA, published a study in Nature Communications that delves deeper into individual genomic differences than ever before. They u
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Judith Simon has been awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship15 Apr. 2019Judith Simon, a former PhD student at Floris Foijer’s group who graduated in 2018, was awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Union. She will use this fellowship for her postdoc project in the lab of Susana Godinho at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Universi
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ERIBA ANNUAL REPORT 201810 Apr. 2019ERIBA Annual Report 2018
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Sahil Gupta has been awarded the prestigious Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)26 Mar. 2019Sahil Gupta has been awarded the prestigious Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) postdoc Stipendium (GU 2029/1-1, project number 420142384) on ‘Mapping the initiating steps of aneuploidy and aneuploidy tolerization in tumorigenesis’. He will be accepting the fellowship in the lab of ‘Genomic
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Judith Paridaen was selected as a new member of the Young Academy Groningen26 Mar. 2019ERIBA scientist Judith Paridaen is selected as one of the new members of the Young Academy Groningen (YAG). The YAG is a club for the University of Groningen’s most talented, enthusiastic and ambitious young researchers. Each academic year the Young Academy organises a selection procedure for up t