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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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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 -
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 -
Poster Prize Glòria Casas Gimeno at HBIGS International Winter School19 Mar. 2019Glòria Casas Gimeno, PhD student at the Paridaen lab in the ERIBA, received a Poster Prize at the HBIGS International Winter School on “Molecular Mechanisms in Mitosis” on 4-7 Feb 2019. Glòria presented a poster on her PhD project on the role of cellular centrioles in asymmetric stem c -
Groningen Team wins a prize at BioHack 2019!12 Mar. 2019The RUG-ERIBA team (RNA Torch) received an award at the bioinformatics hackathon held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The hackathon was organized by EPAM (www.epam.com) and Bioinformatics Institute-Saint Petersburg (http://bioinformaticsinstitute.ru/en). Over 400 students registered for the event. Team -
CBX7 Induces Self-Renewal of Human Normal and Malignant Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells by Canonical and Non-canonical Interactions06 Feb. 2019Johannes Jung and Sonja Buisman identified a new role for the Polycomb protein CBX7 in the selfrenewal of normal and leukemic stem cells. Congratulations! Publication in Cell Reports. -
Diana Spierings is awarded the UMCG 2019 Innovation Prize for single cell sequencing technology.Congratulations!11 Jan. 2019For more information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNHCroubU8 -
ERIBA-IMB Retreat17 Dec. 2018ERIBA and the Institute for Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz successfully organised their first joint scientific retreat. Many opportunities for exciting collaborations! -
Floris Foijer: Crispr & Biotech revolution: Designerbabies and Superhumans?26 Nov. 2018In this laymen’s lecture, organised by the technology platform SCM50 (http://www.smc050.nl), Floris Foijer explains the the basics and (future) applications of CRISPR genome engineering. Also ethical concerns are discussed: are we on our way to designer babies and super humans? https://www.youtube
