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Alzheimer Research UK pathfinder grant (~55.000 Euro) awarded to group Bergink and Kampinga11 Oct. 2017Alzheimer Research UK pathfinder grant (~55.000 Euro) awarded to Prof. dr. Harm H. Kampinga & Dr. Steven Bergink for the project “Targeting DNAJB6 to prevent amyloidosis in polyglutamine diseases”. -
Ody Sibon received a check of € 115.954,00 from the Stichting Zeldzame Ziekten Fonds09 Oct. 2017Ody Sibon received a check of € 115.954,00 from the Stichting Zeldzame Ziekten Fonds for her project: development of a treatment for PKAN. October 7th, the Jan Lammers Rally was organized and all donations were directed to this PKAN project. See also www.zzf.nl. -
Research Sven van IJzendoorn in the spotlight at the Dutch Digestive Foundation .28 Sep. 2017The Dutch Digestive Foundation (Maag Lever Darm stichting) started a mailing campaign to raise money to support research on microvillus inclusion disease by the group of Sven van IJzendoorn. Click here to see more information. -
ALW Open Programme awarded to Reggiori group28 Sep. 2017ALW Open Programme awarded to Prof. Dr. Fulvio Reggiori: Atg1 as the master regulator of autophagosome completion Autophagy is a conserved intracellular degradative pathway that plays a key role in many physiological processes and numerous pathologies including cancer, neurodegeneration and muscular -
Anatomy receives 220,000 euro from the Samenwerkingsverband Noord Nederland for further development of virtual dissection room20 Sep. 2017The development and use of digital resources is rapidly increasing throughout society. This also applies to education. New visualization technologies such as augmented Reality (AR) and virtual Reality (VR) will play a major role in society in the near future, and this will include the domains of ins -
Thesis defence Shankar Tumati15 Sep. 2017On September 11th 2017, Shankar Tumati successfully defended his dissertation titled “On the neural mechanisms of reduced behavior in people with cognitive decline“. He was supervised by André Aleman (Department of Neurosciences, section Cognitive Neuropsychiatry) and Peter De Deyn (Dep -
Published in The Journal of Neuroscience by Jin Qin (Baron group)14 Sep. 2017GD1a overcomes inhibition of myelination by fibronectin via activation of protein kinase A. Implications for multiple sclerosis. Qin J, Sikkema AH, van der Bij K, de Jonge JC, Klappe K, Nies V, Jonker JW, Kok JW, Hoekstra D, Baron W. J Neurosci. 2017 Sep 12. pii: 0103-17. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROS -
Published in Scientific Reports by Sibon group12 Sep. 2017Acetyl-4′-phosphopantetheine is stable in serum and prevents phenotypes induced by pantothenate kinase deficiency Ivano Di Meo, Cristina Colombelli, Balaji Srinivasan, Marianne de Villiers, Jeffrey Hamada, SuhY. Jeong, Rachel Fox, Randall. Woltjer, Pieter G. Tepper, Liza L. Lahaye, Emanuela Rizzet -
Published in Viruses by Xingdong Zhou (group Reggiori)05 Sep. 2017Ultrastructural Characterization of Membrane Rearrangements Induced by Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Infection by Xingdong Zhou, Yingying Cong, Tineke Veenendaal, Judith Klumperman, Dongfang Shi, Muriel Mari and Fulvio Reggiori Viruses 2017 9(9), 251. Online article or Pdf -
Published in Nature Communications by group Reggiori21 Aug. 2017Atg4 proteolytic activity can be inhibited by Atg1 phosphorylation. Sánchez-Wandelmer J, Kriegenburg F, Rohringer S, Schuschnig M, Gómez-Sánchez R, Zens B, Abreu S, Hardenberg R, Hollenstein D, Gao J, Ungermann C, Martens S, Kraft C, Reggiori F. Nat Commun. 2017 Aug 18;8(1):295. doi: 10.10
