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Autophagy in major human diseases Klionsky DJ, Petroni G, Amaravadi RK, Baehrecke EH, Ballabio A, Boya P, Bravo-San Pedro JM, Cadwell K, Cecconi F, Choi AMK, Choi ME, Chu CT, Codogno P, Colombo MI, Cuervo AM, Deretic V, Dikic I, Elazar Z, Eskelinen EL, Fimia GM, Gewirtz DA, Green DR, Hansen M, J

MS researcher Susanne Kooistra has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems of the UMCG (as of July 1st). Susanne is the recipient of an MS Fellowship from the MS Research Foundation and she studies the role of microglial cells in MS. These

Fluc-EGFP reporter mice reveal differential alterations of neuronal proteostasis in aging and disease Blumenstock S, Schulz-Trieglaff EK, Voelkl K, Bolender AL, Lapios P, Lindner J, Hipp MS, Hartl FU, Rüdiger Klein R, Dudanova I The EMBO Journal, online 19. August 2021. doi: 10.15252/embj.20201

The extracellular chaperone Clusterin enhances Tau aggregate seeding in a cellular model. Yuste-Checa P, Trinkaus VA, Riera-Tur I, Imamoglu R, Schaller TF, Wang H, Dudanova I, Hipp MS, Bracher A, Hartl FU. Nat Commun. 2021 Aug 11;12(1):4863. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25060-1.  

Glycans in autophagy, endocytosis and lysosomal functions Fulvio Reggiori, Hans-Joachim Gabius, Massimo Aureli, Winfried Römer, Sandro Sonnino, Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen Glycoconj J. 2021 Aug 14.

Imaging Data Platform for EM data – The EU regional innovation funding (EFRO) has awarded a 1.5 M€ grant to a consortium consisting of Technolution, TU Delft and the UMCG (Giepmans group). We will develop, validate, and use an novel imaging data platform that can deal with the massive amount

Retinyl esters form lipid droplets independently of triacylglycerol and seipin Martijn R Molenaar, Kamlesh K Yadav, Alexandre Toulmay, Tsjerk A Wassenaar, Muriel C Mari, Lucie Caillon, Aymeric Chorlay, Ivan E Lukmantara, Maya W Haaker, Richard W Wubbolts, Martin Houweling, Arie Bas Vaandrager, X

ATG9A protects the plasma membrane from programmed and incidental permeabilization. Aurore Claude-Taupin, Jingyue Jia, Zambarlal Bhujabal, Meriem Garfa-Traoré, Suresh Kumar, Gustavo Peixoto Duarte da Silva, Ruheena Javed, Yuexi Gu, Lee Allers, Ryan Peters, Fulong Wang, Luciana Jesus da Costa, S

Every week one of the UMCG Research Institutes selects an UMCG Open Access Publication of the Week. The UMCG (and the Central Medical Library) will communicate about the selected publication on social media (inter/intranet, but also outside the UMCG through Twitter and Facebook). All forms of open

Het MS Centrum Noord Nederland (MSCNN) kreeg vrijdag op het dakterras van Forum Groningen een cheque ter waarde van 250 duizend euro van de stichting MoveS om de ziekte MS te bestrijden. MS ofwel Multiple Sclerose is een aandoening van het centrale zenuwstelsel. De oorzaak van de ziekt