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Happy Holidays
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24 December, 2020 |
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Mini college recordedIn between re-organizing the lab, wrapping up before Christmas and juggling the pandemic, Renée recorded a mini college on stem cells and cancer (in Dutch) in the FNWI recording studio.
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15 December, 2020 |
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Review article on CTNNB1 publishedOur review on CTNNB1, written by Tanne and Renée, came out today as an Open Access article in Open Biology. |
9 December, 2020 |
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Paper acceptedOur paper "How to use online tools to generate new hypotheses for mammary gland biology research: a case study for Wnt7b", previously available as a pre-print, has found a permanent home in the Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia.
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25 November, 2020 |
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Review acceptedToday we celebrated that Tanne’s review article on the dual function of CTNNB1 in cell adhesion and WNT signaling was accepted for publication in Open Biology.
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19 November, 2020 |
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Recruiting a staff scientistWe are recruiting a staff scientist (UD level, assistant professor). This is a non-tenure track position (50/50 teaching/research). |
9 November, 2020 |
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The lab gets an official nameAmidst all of the COVID-19 craziness, 2020 also brought an exciting highlight: |
24 October, 2020 |
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Celebrating things worth celebrating - COVID styleWe had planned to celebrate the start of Ingeborg’s appointment with a lab lunch in the Polder, but the Dutch Coronvirus measures got tightened - so those plans had to be cancelled and we had to improvise. |
8 October, 2020 |
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Tanne and Renée talk about breasts on Radio SwammerdamOctober is breast cancer awareness month - a very good reason for Radio Swammerdam to focus their weekly hour of science radio on the breast. |
4 October, 2020 |
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Ingeborg joins the lab as a new technicianWe welcome Ingeborg Hooijkaas, who joined the lab on 1 October as our new technician. |
1 October, 2020 |
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New pre-print: How to use online tools to generate new hypotheses for mammary gland biology researchWe are excited to announce a new pre-print, "How to use online tools to generate new hypotheses for mammary gland biology research: a case study for Wnt7b", which is now available via Biorxiv. |
22 September, 2020 |
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Hybrid lab meetingAll of our lab meetings are still held via Zoom, but today we succumbed to the temptation and held the lab meeting in a hybrid format (at a safe distance and sticking to the maximum occupancy of the meeting room): Only Saskia was working from home. |
2 September, 2020 |
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Paper published in GenesisThe first mouse model generated in the lab has now been published as an open access paper in Genesis. You can get the PDF here if you want something that looks a bit prettier than the original preprint. |
9 July, 2020 |
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Paper accepted!Our study "A novel Axin2 knock-in mouse model for visualization and lineage tracing of WNT/CTNNB1 responsive cells" by van de Moosdijk & van de Grift et al. was accepted for publication in genesis.
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25 June, 2020 |
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Fulbright Scholarship and Nijbakker-Morra fellowship awarded to Saskia de ManIn the spring of 2020, Saskia was awarded a Fulbright scholarship as well as a fellowship from the Nijbakker-Morra foundation. These funds will allow a short research visit to the United States. |
20 June, 2020 |
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New pre-print: Quantitative live cell imaging of WNT/CTNNB1 signaling dynamicsWe are really excited to announce that we just posted a new pre-print on Biorxiv |
28 May, 2020 |
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Playing with ScienceARTEZ students Iris Beek and Moritz Brill presented the outcome of their residency at |
21 May, 2020 |
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Comment in BionieuwsRenée was featured in the latest issue of Bionieuws, where she was asked to comment on a recent paper by Caleb Dawson and colleagues from the lab of Jane Visvader. The paper describes the discovery and characterization of a population of macrophages (a specific type of immune cell) in the mammary gland. What is really cool is that you can see this population sandwiched in between the basal and luminal epithelial cells of the mammary epithelium.
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16 May, 2020 |
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Did you catch the easter egg?The April 30 issue of Cell is out, which means that the perspective that Renée wrote in honor of Roel Nusse winning one of the 2020 International Gairder Awards is now officially published. |
1 May, 2020 |
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Blog post on collaboration between artists and scientistsRenée was featured on the LSE impact blog in a post titled "To drive innovation, scientists should open their doors to more equitable relations with the arts". Written by Paige Jarreau, the piece highlights the unexpected spin offs that can occur from collaborations between artists and scientists. |
30 April, 2020 |
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Lab life in times of the COVID-19 pandemicLike everyone else on the planet, we are dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as best as we can. We went into work-from-home mode on 16 March with only a few critical experiments continuing and are staying in touch via Zoom (for group meetings) and Skype (for 1-on-1 meetings). |
9 April, 2020 |
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New pre-printWe are happy to share a pre-print describing the generation and characterization of the first mouse model we built in the lab.
Read it here.
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4 April, 2020 |
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Essay on the contributions of Roel Nusse to the Wnt signaling fieldToday it was announced that Roel Nusse is one of the winners of the 2020 Gairdner Award. In honor of his contributions to the field of Wnt signaling and its broader implications in cancer and stem cell biology, Renée wrote an invited essay for Cell. |
31 March, 2020 |
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NWO Grant awardedRenée was awarded a Klein1 grant in the NWO open competition. Using a combination of quantitative live cell imaging and fluorescent tagging of endogenous Wnt pathway components, we hope to achieve a better understanding of the central working mechanism of the WNT/CTNNB1 pathway. |
26 March, 2020 |
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Short review on WNT/CTNNB1 signaling in breast cancerWe published a short review article on the role of WNT/CTNNB1 signaling in human breast cancer in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, as part of the special topic on mammary gland biology (edited by Dr. Zuzana Koledova from Masryk University). |
2 February, 2020 |