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Spring Meeting 2016 – BioImaging Utrecht

Tuesday May 24nd, 15.00-17.00, UMC -Stratenum Building –Vondelzaal (Rm 3.108)

Intravital imaging
  • “Insights into cell division using C. elegans”, Matilde Galli, Hubrecht Institute
  • “The zebrafish embryo as in vivo developmental and functional tool”, Federico Tessadori, Hubrecht Institute
  • “Use of
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ALW grant for Corette Wierenga & Louk Vanderschuren

Corette Wierenga, in collaboration with Louk Vanderschuren (UU – Veterinary Medicine) received an ALW grant to study ‘How early social
experience shapes higher brain function’.

News UU: http://www.uu.nl/en/news/how-important-is-playing-for-the-development-of-the-brain

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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 … Read more

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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

 

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25 mei 2016 14.30 uur Sam van Beuningen promotie

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Summerschool 2016 – Neural Circuit Development and Plasticity

Registration
Deadline: 1 June 2016
www.utrechtsummerschool.nlRead more

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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 … Read more

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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, Read more

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