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(Re)discover the beauty of microscopy and science through the light of art! – By Anne Rios & her Team @supernatrualfoundation. The exhibition can be visited free of charge until September 14 at Utrecht’s Nicolaïkerk (next to the Centraal Museum). Opening hours: Friday, September 11 (1:00 PM to 5:00 PM) Saturday, September 12 (10:00 AM … Read more
As part of the IMAGINE! consortium Joyce Meiring (postdoc, Akhmanova Lab) in collaboration with Peter Friedl and the German cancer Foundation (Deutsche Krebsstiftung) created a videos offering a unique window into cancer biology as it unfolds in real time! This video is based on footage from Prof. Dr. Peter Friedl, Stijn den Daas, Joyce Meiring, … Read more
We are delighted to congratulate Agathe Chaigne on receiving a prestigious grant from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) for project: Cells, tissues, & thermodynamics: implications for a changing world The project was awarded to Agathe and her international collaborators: Vikas Trivedi (Germany/India), Miguel Concha (Chile), and Michael Stumpf (Australia). HFSP supports highly innovative, interdisciplinary, … Read more
New Preprint from the Chaigne Lab We are pleased to share that a new preprint from the Chaigne lab: Wnt signalling controls abscission dynamics in mouse embryonic stem cells has been published on bioRxiv. Congratulations to Agathe Chaigne, Snježana Kodba, Beatriz Morales Lasierra, Erika Timmers on your manuscript!
Anne Rios has been appointed Professor of Microscopy-driven Human Cancer and Immunotherapy Innovation by Utrecht University. Her professorship reflects a long-held dream: using powerful microscope technologies to understand how treatments work and how to improve them. The research by Rios, who also leads a research group at the Princess Máxima Center, directly supports the development … Read more
Congratulations to Irati Beltrán Hernández and Sebas Pronk (postdocs of the Oliveira Lab)! Lumox won the first prize at the Philips Innovation Award: the largest entrepreneurship award in the Netherlands organized by students! About the start-up: Lumox is developing a light-activated cancer therapy that selectively targets only cancer cells — reducing the need for invasive … Read more
Shaping our memories: resolving the nanoscale organization of neuronal synapses in memory circuits “How does the brain form and store memories for hours, days or even a lifetime? I am very excited that with this Vici project we can study the nanoscale molecular processes that lead to the lasting imprinting of memories in the brain.” … Read more
Biophysicist Lukas Kapitein has been elected as a new member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), an international society of leading life sciences researchers. The membership is a lifetime honour and acknowledges Kapitein’s outstanding scientific contributions. “It is a great honour to be elected as EMBO member. I am excited to join EMBO and … Read more
