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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.

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BioImaging Utrecht – Image Contest 2015 – the Winners

Go to: the winners.

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BioImaging Utrecht – Image Contest 2015

EM-5-Jan-DijksterhuisFor the fourth year the Bio-Imaging Utrecht workgroup organizes a microscope image competition. The focus of this competition is to show that microscopic images often not only have scientific value but also an artistic value, the images will be judged … Read more

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Image analysis for beginners using ImageJ

imageJ_2015Image analysis for beginners using ImageJ (free multiplatform software)
Tuesday October 13th David de Wied building, room 042

 
 
 
 

  • If you want to start using ImageJ/FIJI and have no clue where to begin. Or you just started
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Summerschool 2015 – Neuronal Circuit development and plasticity

Summerschool 2015 – Neuronal Circuit development and plasticitySummerschool 2015 – Neuronal Circuit development and plasticity, poster: hereRead more

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Controlling organelle transport and positioning with light

Optogenetic control of organelle transport and positioning. Petra van Bergeijk, Max Adrian, Casper C. Hoogenraad, Lukas C. Kapitein. Nature DOI: doi.org/10.1038/nature14086

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14128.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14086.html

Proper positioning of organelles by cytoskeleton-based motor proteins underlies cellular events such as signaling, polarization, and growth. … Read more

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Maarten Kole appointed special professor in the Biophysics of complex cellular systems

On May 1, 2014 De Stichting Physica appointed Maarten Kole special professor in the Biophysics of complex cellular systems. This chair is connected to the University of Utrecht.

Press release:
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Microtubule minus-end binding protein CAMSAP2 controls axon specification and dendrite development

Kah Wai Yau, Sam F.B. van Beuningen, Inês Cunha-Ferreira, Bas M.C. Cloin, Eljo Y. van Battum, Lena Will, Philipp Schätzle, Roderick P. Tas, Jaap van Krugten, Eugene A. Katrukha, Kai Jiang, Phebe S. Wulf, Marina Mikhaylova, Martin Harterink, R. Jeroen Read more

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