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      Program     Call for abstracts 2019   The Dutch Huntington Disease Research Network & Huntington Netwerk Nederland will have their first combined Huntington Symposium which will be held at the UMCG. Abstracts & registration:  deadlin

Cellular stress leads to the formation of membraneless stress assemblies in eukaryotic cells. van Leeuwen W, Rabouille C. Traffic. 2019 Sep;20(9):623-638. Review.

Membrane-Bound Meet Membraneless in Health and Disease. Zhang C, Rabouille C. Cells. 2019 Aug 29;8(9).  Review

Every week one of the UMCG Research Institutes selects an UMCG Open Access Publication of the Week. In Week 37th, Research Insitute Brain and Cognition selected: Human VPS13A is associated with multiple organelles and influences mitochondrial morphology and lipid droplet motility Summary The

Daniëlle Voshart, won the Peggy Olive memorial award for best abstract in the theme of Basic Research at the ICRR 2019 conference (with about 1000 participants) in Manchester, UK.    

Compartmentalized Synthesis of Triacylglycerol at the Inner Nuclear Membrane Regulates Nuclear Organization. Barbosa AD, Lim K, Mari M, Edgar JR, Gal L, Sterk P, Jenkins BJ, Koulman A, Savage DB, Schuldiner M, Reggiori F, Wigge PA, Siniossoglou S. Dev Cell. 2019 Jul 30. pii: S1534-5807(19)30581-

Elucidating at the ultrastructural level the autophagic turnover of mitochondria using next-generation correlative imaging Muriel C. Mari (with Dr. Koji Okamoto) It is a 3 years exchange program for a collaborative project between the group of Dr. koji Okamoto and my group. We obtained the max

Out of the 494 submitted projects for the Nationale Wetenschapsagenda, the project of Marie-José van Tol and Marlijn Besten is one of the 37 that has received an idea generator grant of 50K euro. In this project (a collaboration with Marieke van Vugt, Artifical Intelligence expert at the Faculty of

A COPII subunit acts with an autophagy receptor to target endoplasmic reticulum for degradation Yixian Cui; Smriti Parashar; Muhammad Zahoor; Patrick G. Needham; Muriel Mari; Ming Zhu; Shuliang Chen; Hsuan-Chung Ho; Fulvio Reggiori; Hesso Farhan; Jeffrey L. Brodsky; Susan Ferro-Novick Science 

Targeting protein aggregation to ameliorate radiotherapy-induced neurocognitive dysfunction Project Leader:  Lara Barazzuol (University Medical Center Groningen / Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems – Radiotherapy) Principal Investigator:  Steven Bergink (University Medical Center Gr