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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

Judith 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) 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

ERIBA 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

Glòria 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

The 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