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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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Defense Aaron Taudt15 Nov. 2018On Monday the 15th of October Aaron Taudt defended his PhD thesis entitled: ‘Hidden Markov Models for the Analysis of Next-Generation-Sequencing Data’. In 2013 he joined the group of Maria Colomé-Tatché as her first PhD student. Half-way through his PhD he moved to Munich with his PI a
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DAF-16/FOXO and HLH-30/TFEB function as combinatorial transcription factors to promote stress resistance and longevity14 Nov. 2018The ability to perceive and respond to harmful conditions is crucial for the survival of any organism. The transcription factor DAF-16/FOXO is central to these responses, relaying distress signals into the expression of stress resistance and longevity promoting genes. However, its sufficiency in ful
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Ellen Nollen was awarded an ITN grant from the H2020 program02 Nov. 2018Ellen Nollen was awarded an Innovative Training Networks (ITN) grant from the H2020 program, funded by the EU. Her work focuses on understanding the molecular basis of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. The network consists of excellent team of partners from academic and non-academic sectors w
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Defense ilke Sen31 Oct. 2018On Monday the 22nd of October Ilke Sen defended her PhD thesis titled: New Molecular Mechanisms of Aging Regulation. In 2012 she joined Christian Riedel’s group and ERIBA as one of the first PhD students in the institute. She was working mainly on the DAF-16 in C. elegans. Early in her PhD she