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Zpannend Zernike was a big success16 Oct. 2018On the 6th of october ERIBA opened its doors to the public as part of the Weekend van de Wetenschap, the national event known as Zpannend Zernike in Groningen. Researchers from Eriba, the UMCG and Lifelines joined their forces and organized a great variety of science and healthy ageing related activ
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Defense Johannes Jung15 Oct. 2018On Monday the 17th of September Johannes Jung defended his PhD thesis called: The role of human CBX proteins in human benign and malignant hematopoiesis. He joined the deHaan lab in 2013 and was working about human CBX proteins and their role in the human hematopoietic system. He moved at the end
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Defense Judith Simon28 Sep. 2018On Wednesday, the 12th of September, Judith Simon successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Identifying aneuploidy-tolerating genes’. Judith currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University in London. Summary: When cell
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Leonid Bystrykh and Gerald de Haan were awarded an ITN grant from the H2020 program19 Sep. 2018Leonid Bystrykh and Gerald de Haan were awarded an ITN grant from the H2020 program, funded by the EU. In this Network grant 15 PhD students, employed at academic sites across Europe , together with several industrial partners and patient organizations, aim to understand how age-related hematologica
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Sonja Buisman was awarded a KNAW Van Walree Grant22 Aug. 2018Sonja Buisman, a MD/PhD student in the lab of Gerald de Haan was awarded a KNAW Van Walree Grant. The Academy Medical Sciences Fund makes Academy Van Walree Grants available for medical students at the Dutch university who will be giving a presentation at a foreign conference. Sonja will present he
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"Worms may hold the secret to longer life: work from Berezikov group is profiled in Horizon magazine".06 Jul. 2018“Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine, run a story on a recently published work from Berezikov group describing resilience to ageing in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano“. See the whole article ; https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/worms-may-hold-secret-longer-life_en.html &nb
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ERIBA launches new start-up06 Jul. 2018The European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA), part of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), launches a biotech start-up company Cleara Biotech B.V. (Cleara), together with its collaborators University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) and Medical University of Graz. Cleara
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The regenerative flatworm Macrostomum lignano, a model organism with high experimental potential29 Jun. 2018This review by the Berezikov Group is published in the special “Regeneration” issue of The International Journal of Developmental Biology. It presents the free-living flatworm model Macrostomum lignano and discusses the recent progress in the development of genomic tools, such as robust methods
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Research grant Floris Foijer from KWF18 Jun. 2018Floris Foijer was awarded a Research grant from the KWF. He got the grant for his research “How heterogenity within a tumor leads to growth and therapy resistance”. Read the whole article on the UMCG website.
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Clémence Claussin has been awarded an EMBO Long Term Fellowship15 Jun. 2018Former ERIBA PhD student Clémence Claussin has been awarded an EMBO Long Term Fellowship. Clémence is currently a postdoc at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she is studying DNA replication in the lab of Iestyn Whitehouse. Congratulations, Clémence!