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HFSP Grant awarded to Agathe Chaigne & international collaborators
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: … Read more
Anne Rios appointed Professor of Microscopy-Driven Human Cancer and Immunotherapy Innovation
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, … Read more
Irati and Sebas at Lumox won first prize at the Philips Innovation Award
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 … Read more
Centriolar cap in action
Centriolar cap proteins CP110 and CPAP control slow elongation of microtubule plus ends.
Iyer SS, Chen F, Ogunmolu FE, Moradi S, Volkov VA, van Grinsven EJ, van Hoorn C, Wu J, Andrea N, Hua S, Jiang K, Vakonakis I, Potočnjak … Read more
“Champagne corks” at microtubule tips control growth of cilia
A network of interacting ciliary tip proteins with opposing activities imparts slow and processive microtubule growth.
Saunders HAJ, van den Berg CM, Hoogebeen RA, Schweizer D, Stecker KE, Roepman R, Howes SC, Akhmanova A.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2025 Jan … Read more
Aurora B controls microtubule stability to regulate abscission dynamics in stem cells
Aurora B controls microtubule stability to regulate abscission dynamics in stem cells
S. Kodba, A. Öztop, E. van Berkum, E.A. Katrukha, M.K. Iwanski, W. Nijenhuis, L.C. Kapitein, A. Chaigne
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115238
Abscission is the last step of cell division. It separates … Read more