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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 letters of intent, only 25 full applications were successful. Akhmanova and her colleagues will study … Read more
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 Beuningen 1, Sam van Beuningen 2 08 juni 2016 16.15 uur Petra van Bergeijk promotie … Read more
Registration Deadline: 1 June 2016 www.utrechtsummerschool.nl
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 here.
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 with precise timing and location for the correct integration of the incoming signal from a … Read more
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, Jan A. Post, Anna Akhmanova, R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Lukas C. Kapitein, Esther de Graaff, Casper … Read more
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 allow Sabrina Oliveira to expand her current line of research which is mainly focused on … Read more
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 end and the minus end. Significant advances have been made in our understanding of microtubule … Read more
