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Welcome students!All of the new students have started their internships, which we celebrated by going out for lunch in De Polder. Time for a quick (because cold and very windy) group picture - alas not fully complete because, well, corona. Better luck next lunch. |
8 February, 2022 |
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In which we present our artist in residence project to the worldRosa and Renée presented the first results of the artist in residency at SPUI25. There was room for a small live audience, with others watching the livestream at home. |
1 February, 2022 |
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PhD defense: Anoeska becomes dr. Van de MoosdijkToday Anoeska defended her PhD thesis in de Agnieten kapel in Amsterdam - just in time before stricter COVID-19 measures were announced, so there was even the possibility for (sit down) drinks and a proper celebration afterwards.
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16 November, 2021 |
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Wntlab You Tube channel launchThe lab officially turns 8 years old today. A good reason to launch our YouTube channel with one of the first videos we ever made from data produced in the lab by Anoeska van de Moosdijk: A bifurcating terminal end bud with WNT-responsive stem cells scattered throughout. This experiment ultimately resulted in one grant, three new mouse models and the PhD thesis of Anoeska! |
1 November, 2021 |
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#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth (2)The University of Amsterdam Press Communications Office (UvA Persvoorlichting) highlighted the lab on their Instagram account. This time, there was time and space (albeit in 15 second snippets and soundbites) to stress our fundamental research. |
14 October, 2021 |
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#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth (1)Renée was featured in a newspaper article in "Het Reformatorisch Dagblad" because of Breast Cancer Awareness Week. |
11 October, 2021 |
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Nacht van de poezieOur artist in residence, Rosa Schogt, had the honor of being the opening act of the 38th Dutch Poetry Night. One of the poems she read was "Het verband tussen snelheid en massa" (The link between speed and mass), which she wrote earlier this year inspired by our work. As you can tell from the audience response, this poem needs to sink in. |
2 October, 2021 |
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Goodbye Saskia!We had dinner in De Polder to say goodbye to Saskia, who is moving on to the next step in her career. She will start a new job at Ocello in October. |
16 September, 2021 |
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Review chapter out onlineA new review, in which Saskia and Renée zoom in on the working mechanism of the WNT/CTNNB1 destruction complex, came out online today. It looks like the DOI has not been activated yet, but you can access the review (titled "Zooming in on the WNT/CTNNB1 Destruction Complex: Functional Mechanistic Details with Implications for Therapeutic Targeting") here: |
13 September, 2021 |
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Goodbye students and welcome Anna!Before the start of the academic year 2021-2022, we said goodbye to our students (Omayma and Uliana gave their talk before the summer break and handed in their reports, Melanie and Jenny presented their work today and are wrapping up the writing and Jobana will wrap up this month). |
1 September, 2021 |
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Interview with Saskia about her research visit to NIHWho knew? As it turns out, some Fulbright scholarships are sponsored by Elsevier. For this reason, Saskia was interviewed by Elsevier Connect about her view on scientific research and her visit to the NIH, where she spent some time in the Lebensohn lab for the final stages of her PhD thesis research. |
4 August, 2021 |
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New pre-printJust before the summer break we published a new pre-print. |
28 July, 2021 |
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New publication: Paper accepted in eLife and out onlineWe are very excited to announce that after a long and strenuous, but altogether very positive and constructive review process, our study "Quantitative live-cell imaging and computational modelling shed new light on endogenous WNT/CTNNB1 signaling dynamics" by De Man et al. has been accepted for publication by eLife! |
9 July, 2021 |
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The very first Wntlab PhD defense: Nika becomes dr. Heijmans
On Wednesday morning Nika successfully defended her PhD thesis, thereby becoming the first dr. to come out of the lab. Congratulations Nika on such a beautiful thesis and a job well done! |
7 July, 2021 |
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Lab BBQTanne hosted a lab BBQ to celebrate summer and the (upcoming) end of the BSc and MSc internships. This was the first time we were all together, timed with scientific precision in the week in which COVID-19 levels were at their lowest (that was fun while it lasted). |
7 July, 2021 |
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Coffee break and impromptu lab pictureWe had our first coffee break with the entire lab in the new constellation. We can only imagine what exciting development will still occur on this patch of land that makes it look like we live somewhere out in the desert or on a building site (we have high hopes for a Friends style fountain, but it looks like it might just be plain old grass). In either case, the wall did allow us to soak in the sun and pose for a socially distanced lab picture. Let’s hope this is the last 1.5 meters one!
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2 June, 2021 |
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Marleen joins the lab as a new PhD student
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1 June, 2021 |