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A poster prize (3rd place; >200 posters) at Dutch Biophysics for Pascal de Boer. Multi-color EM by element-guided identification of cells, organelles and molecules Pascal de Boer, Marijke Scotuzzi, Jeroen Kuipers, Dasha Wensveen, Kees W Hagen, Jacob P. Hoogenboom &, Ben N.G. Giepmans 

Poster prize (1st place; 250 €; >100 posters) at the European Radiation Research 2016 conference for Lara Barazzuol Radiation-induced DNA damage response in adult neural stem cells: a spatio-temporal analysis Lara Barazzuol, Limei Ju, Penny A. Jeggo    

Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries about autophagy using yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism Quotes from an interview with Ohsumi for the Chicago Tribune: The Karolinska Institute’s decision to award Ohsumi the Nobel Prize honors his study of autophagy, a fundam

On 6 September 2016 Ilia Vaichtein defended his thesis Raiders of the CNS, New Insights on microglia and myeloid infiltrates in EAE for a committee of national and international researchers and was awarded with the doctor’s title. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disorder of the central n

Every human needs love and affection, insights in bonding behavior. Prof. Dr. Gert ter Horst knows this already for years as he published several papers about love and affection. One of his papers about this topic from 2012 is still one of the most downloaded papers from the journal Neuroscience pub

Neural predictors of suicide attempts and effects of treatment: towards clinically relevant brain data. Researchers Dr. Esther Opmeer and Prof. Dr. Andre Aleman were awarded with a grant(365.000 euro) from ZonMw to get a better understanding in suicidal behavior. Summary: In order to understand su

Published online Coenzyme A: to make it or uptake it Ody C.M. Sibon and Erick Strauss See pdf The consensus has been that intracellular coenzyme A (CoA) is obtained exclusively by de novobiosynthesis via a universal, conserved five-step pathway in the cell cytosol. However, old and new evidence sug

Published online 29 August 2016: An siRNA screen for ATG protein depletion reveals the extent of the unconventional functions of the autophagy proteome in virus replication.    Mauthe M, Langereis M, Jung J, Zhou X, Jones A, Omta W, Tooze SA, Stork B, Paludan SR, Ahola T, Egan D, Behrends C, Mok

  Date:  19 September 2016 Time: 11.00 hrs Location: Aula Academic Building, Broerstraat 5, Groningen. (reception at the Spiegelzaal, Academic building afterwards)    

On the 6th of June 2016 Inge Holtman succesfully defended her thesis Exploring microglial functions under physiological and pathological conditions by genome-wide expression profiling before an committee of established researchers and was awarded with cum laude honors. Microglia cells are essential