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New publication online in the AJHG

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:14:43 GMT

New publication describing a new gene for spinal muscular dystrophy that we have found by exome sequencing.

Mutations inBICD2, which Encodes a Golgin and Important Motor Adaptor, Cause Congenital Autosomal-Dominant Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Kornelia Neveling, Lilian A. Martinez-Carrera, Irmgard Hölker, Angelien Heister, Aad Verrips, Seyyed Mohsen Hosseini-Barkooie, Christian Gilissen, Sascha Vermeer, Maartje Pennings, Rowdy Meijer, Margot te Riele, Catharina J.M. Frijns, Oksana Suchowersky, Linda MacLaren, Sabine Rudnik-Schöneborn, Richard J. Sinke, Klaus Zerres, R. Brian Lowry, Henny H. Lemmink, Lutz Garbes, Joris A. Veltman, Helenius J. Schelhaas, Hans Scheffer and Brunhilde Wirth.
10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.04.011

3.6 million euros for iTERM

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:49:19 GMT

Dr. Egbert Oosterwijk, Associate Professor at the Department of Urology, has been awarded a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) grant of € 3.6 million funded by the European Commission under FP7 for 'Training scientists to develop and Image materials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (iTERM). It brings together 6 renowned research institutes and 2 SME. The network will employ 12 PhD students and one postdoc who will develop new materials and implants for the bio-engineering of soft tissue (skin, urogenital) and hard (bone) tissue as well as state-of-the-art novel multimodality visualization procedures to monitor the behaviour of implants.

Four million Euros for DevCom

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:41:52 GMT

A €4 Million European training grant has been awarded to an international consortium led and coordinated by Prof. Gert Jan Veenstra (Dept. Molecular Developmental Biology). From the same department computational biologist Dr. Simon van Heeringen also contributes to the project.

The European training network on Developmental and Computational Biology (acronym DevCom) will work towards bridging the gap between developmental and computational biology and aims to elucidate embryonic gene regulatory and developmental networks, including those associated with disease, by integrating molecular-, developmental-, statistical- and computational approaches.

DevCom will train 12 PhD students and two experienced researchers at eight partner institutions in five countries: The Netherlands (Nijmegen and Utrecht), United Kingdom (London and Norwich), Spain (Seville), France (Paris and Evry) and Denmark (Aarhus).

For more information, please visit: http://www.devcom-itn.eu

Grant for Merel Adjobo-Hermans

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:57:27 GMT

Merel Adjobo-Hermans from the Department of Biochemistry has been awarded an E-Rare-2 grant (250k€). This grant is part of a consortium grant awarded to young PIs situated in Germany, Austria, Israel and The Netherlands. The project funded is entitled: "Advancing the European Multidisciplinary Initiative on Neuroacanthocytosis - EMINA-2: Dissecting the molecular pathophysiology of Chorea-Acanthocytosis". Knockout mice, Drosophila models, patient-derived stem cells, peptides and novel fluorescent tools will be used to unravel the molecular basis of the rare neurodegenerative disease chorea-acanthocytosis. For more information: http://www.emina2.eu/

Travel Grant for Martijn van den Bosch

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:58:48 GMT

Martijn van den Bosch, department of Experimental Rheumatology and Advanced Therapeutics, has won a travel grant for his abstract "Synovial Wnt and WISP1 expression induces espression of cartilage-degrading metalloproteinases in the synovium".

Martijn will present his work orally at the EULAR conference, to be held in Madrid, Spain from 12-15 June 2013.

Young Investigator Award for Wouter de Munter

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:53:56 GMT

Wouter de Munter,department of Experimental Rheumatology and Advanced Therapeutics, has won the Young Investigator Award for his abstract "High serum-cholesterol levels by either low density lipoprotein receptor deficiency or a cholesterol-rich diet results in synovial activation and osteophyte formation during experimental osteoarthritis".

The price for scientific excellence of the abstract was awarded by an independent committee of theOARSI (€ 1.000). At the OARSI conference, to be held in Philadelphia USA from 18-21 April 2013, Wouter will present his work orally at the OARSI in the session for highest rated abstracts.

Questionnaire to improve website library

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:44:11 GMT

The University Library is updating its website! What is your opinion?

The University Library is updating its website and would like to know more about the use by different user groups and suggestions for the new website. http://www.ru.nl/ubn/

If you would like to cooperate and give your opinion, please fill in the questionnaire (only in Dutch). This will take only a few minutes. The questionnaire will be available until end of may.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Royal Decoration for Han Brunner

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:35:21 GMT

Han Brunner is Professor of Human Genetics and since 1998 Head of the Department of Human Genetics at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. The Department, comprising more than 300 people, is dynamic and internationally oriented, and without doubt one of the leading European centres for medical genetics research. Han Brunner, himself, is an eminent clinical geneticist, internationally famous for his renowned knowledge of thousands of rare syndromes, but especially for his capacity to translate basic research into routine Diagnostics. One particular highlight in his scientific career is the discovery of the genetic causes of over fifty rare syndromes. Han Brunner is a very inspiring speaker and capable leader coaching and motivating talented scientists and clinicians to advance themselves and the field of genetics.

On Friday 26th April, Han Brunner was honoured with the highly prestigious Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in view of his service to medical research.

Royal Decoration for René Bindels

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:55:29 GMT

René Bindels is as physiologist interested in the regulation of ion transport processes in kidney and small intestine in health and disease. He has devoted his life's research to understanding the molecular mechanisms controlling the calcium and magnesium balance in the search for new therapies for kidney-related diseases. Furthermore, he has devoted enormous energy to teaching future generations of scientists the importance of physiology in medicine. He is responsible for several physiology courses for medical and health science students. He is head of the Department for Physiology and an elected member of the Academia Europaea. Rene Bindels has won numerous prizes acknowledging his services to science and society, including the prestigious Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer award, the Robert Franklin Pitts Lecturer award and the Homer W. Smith award.

On Friday April 26th in Beuningen, Rene Bindels was honoured with the highly prestigious Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion.

For further info (Dutch): link

Events for upcoming 3 weeks

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:53:04 GMT

Due to the holiday season you find in this newsletter events for the upcoming 3 weeks. Next week there will be no edition of this newsletter.

For all upcoming events: www.ncmls.eu/events