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Systematic mapping of contact sites reveals tethers and a function for the peroxisome-mitochondria contact. Shai N, Yifrach E, van Roermund CWT, Cohen N, Bibi C, IJlst L, Cavellini L, Meurisse J, Schuster R, Zada L, Mari MC, Reggiori FM, Hughes AL, Escobar-Henriques M, Cohen MM, Waterham H

Coordination of Autophagosome–Lysosome Fusion by Atg8 Family Members Franziska Kriegenburg, Christian Ungermann, and Fulvio Reggiori Pdf  

Did you know that your senses can fool you, big time? And that the world around you kind of disappears when you’re whatsapping? With even the slightest distraction, you can even miss an elephant standing right in front of you! Come visit our Royal Psychological Lab and dare to lose control over yo

  Thermosensory perception regulates speed of movement in response to temperature changes in Drosophila melanogaster by Andrea Soto-Padilla, Rick Ruijsink, Ody C. M. Sibon, Hedderik van Rijn, Jean-Christophe Billeter   Abstract  (pdf full article) Temperature influences physi

NEMI (Netherlands Electron Microscopy Infrastructure) gives access to advanced electron microscopy (EM) technology,  expertise and development. NEMI, coordinated by UMCU, has been awarded a multimillion infrastructure grant to allow state-of-the-art EM in several national centers. The UMCG microsc

During the last few weeks, microglia made the headlines a number of times in national and international press. It started with the publication of a research paper: Low-Fat Diet with Caloric Restriction Reduces White Matter Microglia Activation during Aging by Zhuoran Yin and colleagues (a former PhD

Wang P, Gorter RP, de Jonge JC, Nazmuddin M, Zhao C, Amor S, Hoekstra D, Baron W.. MMP7 cleaves remyelination-impairing fibronectin aggregates and its expression is reduced in chronic multiple sclerosis lesions.. Glia 2018 Mar 30. doi: 10.1002/glia.23328. [Epub ahead of print]. Pdf

On February 26 2018, Arun Thiruvalluvan successfully defended his dissertation titled Induced pluripotent stem cells: cell therapy and disease modeling. He was supervised by Prof. Dr. Erik Boddeke and Dr. Sjef Copray. He continues working on stemcells at the ERIBA iPSC/CRISPR Facility.

Genetic aberrations in macroautophagy genes leading to diseases Nienke van Beek , Daniel J. Klionsky , Fulvio Reggiori Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Molecular Cell Research Volume 1865, Issue 5, May 2018, Pages 803–816