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Rob Coppes received a cheque from the zwem- en poloclub “Steenwijk 34” which had been swimming 200 km to sponsor a KWF project. The club chose Rob Coppes’ project “Increasing therapeutic window of proton therapy in brain, head and neck cancer” to donate the cheque to.

Neodymium as an alternative contrast for uranium in electron microscopy. Kuipers J, Giepmans BNG. Histochem Cell Biol. 2020 Feb 1. doi: 10.1007/s00418-020-01846-0.

Nucleocapsid Protein Recruitment to Replication-Transcription Complexes Plays a Crucial Role in Coronaviral Life Cycle Yingying Cong, Mustafa Ulasli, Hein Schepers, Mario Mauthe, Philip V’kovski, Franziska Kriegenburg, Volker Thiel,Cornelis A. M. de Haan, Fulvio Reggioria. February 2020 Volume

Protein Quality Control Pathways at the Crossroad of Synucleinopathies. De Mattos EP, Wentink A, Nussbaum-Krammer C, Hansen C, Bergink S, Melki R, Kampinga HH. J Parkinsons Dis. 2020 Jan 24. doi: 10.3233/JPD-191790.  Pdf

Jacomien Jongsma received the Monique Blom-de Wagt Grant to visit the lab of prof. Ernst Wolvetang in Brisbane, Australia for 6 months next year. His research group is specialized in iPSC technology and Jacomien will examine whether the interplay between neurons and oligodendrocytes is dysregulated

MTA3 Represses Cancer Stemness by Targeting the SOX2OT/SOX2 Axis. Du L, Wang L, Gan J, Yao Z, Lin W, Li J, Guo Y, Chen Y, Zhou F, Jim Yeung SC, Coppes RP, Zhang D, Zhang H. iScience. 2019 Nov 11;22:353-368.

  CoA-dependent activation of mitochondrial acyl carrier protein links four neurodegenerative diseases Roald A Lambrechts, Hein Schepers, Yi Yu, Marianne van der Zwaag, Kaija J Autio, Marcel A Vieira-Lara, Barbara M Bakker, Marina A Tijssen, Susan J Hayflick , Nicola A Grzeschik & Ody C

Galectin-3 Coordinates a Cellular System for Lysosomal Repair and Removal Jingyue Jia; Aurore Claude-Taupin; Yuex iGu; Seong Won Choi; Ryan Peters; Bhawana Bissa; Michal H. Mudd; Lee Allers; Sandeep Pallikkuth; Keith A. Lidke; Michelle Salemi; Brett Phinney; Muriel Mari; Fulvio Reggiori; Vojo De

Mechanisms behind the polarized distribution of lipids in epithelial cells Sven C.D.van Ijzendoorn, JeanAgnetti and AmaGassama-Diagne Available online 4 December 2019, 183145. Pdf

  At the annual NVRB symposium Danielle Voshart received the Klaas Breur Travel Award for best presentation. Title of the presentation: “Elucidating the role of senescent cells in radiation-induced neurocognitive dysfunction.“