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The 3rd Molecular Biology of Ageing Meeting which was held last week in the UMCG in Groningen(Oct. 10th to Oct.12th) was a great success! There were a lot of interesting speakers and attendees from all over the world.

Eugene Berezikov is awarded a KLEIN-1 research grant from NWO Open Competition Domain Science. KLEIN grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental research and/or studies involving matters of scientific urgency. Berezikov’s group will use this 360k€ grant to study mechanisms of s

Last Saturday October 5th we had a succesfull day with all kinds of activities during the”Weekend van de Wetenschap”(Zpannend Zernike) More than 600 people came to visit us. Thanks to many volunteers who made this work.

ERIBA scientists from the Veenhoff and Paridaen labs contributed to the 2019 Noorderzon festival for Arts in Groningen that took place 15-25 of August. As part of the Science Fair ‘University of Noorderzon’ organized by the Young Academy Groningen (https://twitter.com/i/status/116596294222077952

In 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

On 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

Arun Thirauvalluvan has been awarded an EMBO poster prize; DNAJB6,a key factor in neural stem cell resistance to polyglutamine protein aggregation.

On 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

The 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

A 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