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HFSP Grant for Anna Akhmanova

Prof. Anna Akhmanova from Utrecht University and her colleagues from UK, Singapore and Canada have been awarded a 1.35 million USD grant from the Human Frontier Science Program. This international programme is extremely competitive. From the initial total of 672

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Upcoming PhD defenses

18 mei 2016 12.45 uur Kah Wai Yau promotie (see flyer attached) pdf files: Kah Wai Yau 1, Kah Wai Yau 2, Kah Wai Yau 3   25 mei 2016 14.30 uur Sam van Beuningen promotie pdf files: Sam van

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Summerschool 2016 – Neural Circuit Development and Plasticity

Registration Deadline: 1 June 2016 www.utrechtsummerschool.nl

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Winter Meeting 2016 – BioImaging Utrecht

UMC – Stratenum Building – Vondelzaal (Rm 3.108) Tuesday February 2nd, 15.00 – 17.00 Bas Cloin (Utrecht University) “Adaptive optics for super-resolution microscopy” Marvin Tannenbaum (Hubrecht Institute) “Translational dynamics on single mRNA molecules in vivo” drinks afterwards, program details, click

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Are you in or are you out: intracellular transport of synaptic receptors affects synaptic architecture

Researchers from Utrecht University shed light on the intracellular transport of postsynaptic receptors in neurons In the brain, millions of neurons transfer information with each other through synapses. At the surface of an excitatory postsynapse, receptors need to be inserted

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TRIM46 Controls Neuronal Polarity and Axon Specification by Driving the Formation of Parallel Microtubule Arrays

Sam F.B. van Beuningen, Lena Will, Martin Harterink, Anaël Chazeau, Eljo Y. van Battum, Cátia P. Frias, Mariella A.M. Franker, Eugene A. Katrukha, Riccardo Stucchi, Karin Vocking, Ana T. Antunes, Lotte Slenders, Sofia Doulkeridou, Peter Sillevis Smitt, A.F. Maarten Altelaar,

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ERC Starting Grant for Sabrina Oliveira

Sabrina Oliveira received a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This 1.5 M€ grant is intended for excellent research proposals from young scientists, to help them to achieve independence and build their own research teams. The grant will

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Control of microtubule organization and dynamics: two ends in the limelight

Akhmanova A, Steinmetz MO. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2015 Dec;16(12):711-26. doi: 10.1038/nrm4084. Review Microtubules have fundamental roles in many essential biological processes, including cell division and intracellular transport. They assemble and disassemble from their two ends, denoted the plus

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