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New publication: A molecular toolbox to study progesterone receptor signalingOur paper "A molecular toolbox to study progesterone receptor signaling" has been published in the Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia. |
29 November, 2023 |
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Now recruiting a new staff scientist with a focus on 3D tissue organoids (UD/assistant professor level)We are excited to announce this rare opportunity, thanks to the recent sectorplangelden: We are looking for a new colleague to join our scientific staff with a focus on 3D tissue organoids (mainly breast and mammary gland, but with some room for intestine).
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21 November, 2023 |
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20th Dutch Chromatin meetingAt the initiative of Maike Stam, the 20th edition of the Dutch Chromatin meeting returned to Amsterdam. Together with Maike, Renée, Thijs, Frank Jacobs and Rutger Gjaltema turned it into an all SILS organised event. |
3 November, 2023 |
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FNWI PubquizSince our enthusiasm was bigger than the maximum allowed team size at the annual FNWI Pubquiz, we had to divide ourselves into two teams of three. Strategically not the smartest move, and we did not win, but it looks like we had fun! |
31 October, 2023 |
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PhD defense: Yorick becomes dr. Van de GriftOn 18 October 2023, Yorick was the fourth PhD student from the lab to successfully defend a PhD thesis. We gathered in the Agnietenkapel for the occasion and the questions from the committee beautifully covered all of the various aspects of the work described in the thesis. |
18 October, 2023 |
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Keynote talk in GroningenRenée gave a keynote talk at the annual CRCG PhD day of the Cancer Research Center in Groningen. Thanks for the wonderful invitation and the opportunity to talk to early career scientists about the different academic and life choices in our line of work! |
12 October, 2023 |
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Theatercollegetour kick offRenée played/gave (not sure what verb to use with a theatercollege) her first theatercollege during a matinee in Venlo. Thanks to the interactive, friendly and interested audience for the warm welcome! It was a pleasure to be part of a line up with two other theatercolleges on free will (or the lack thereof) and inheritance tax with comedian Fuad Hassen functioning as excellent glue and a light note in between the different performances.
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8 October, 2023 |
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Weekend van de Wetenschap 2023Thijs and Renée spent all Saturday at Science Park during the annual open day (part of the national "Weekend of Science"), to share the fascinating biology of the mammary gland, or breast. Join us next year if you too are curious about the extra nipples of Harry Styles! |
7 October, 2023 |
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Radio 1Renée was interviewed on Radio 1, as a studio guest in Villa VdB, about the upcoming theatercollegetour of the Universiteit van Nederland. |
2 October, 2023 |
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Joëlle starts as a PhD studentJoëlle started her PhD thesis research. Supervised by Thijs and Renée), Joëlle will join Anna on the NWO-XL project and use gastruloids as a model system for early mammalian development to study if and how developmental signals (mainly WNT and BMP/Nodal) are interpreted differently depending on the cellular chromatin state. She will be co-supervised by Marten Postma, who also recently joined our NWO-XL consortium and with whom we are collaborating on cell based models and quantitative image analysis |
1 October, 2023 |
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Lab tripWe carved out some time for a lab trip in the forest near Maarn. Joëlle joined for the occasion, a couple of days before the official start of her contract. |
27 September, 2023 |
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New PhD thesis from the labYorick dropped off the printed copies of his PhD thesis. Another beautiful piece of work, albeit somewhat on the hefty side. One month to go before the defence!
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22 September, 2023 |
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2023 WNT meeting in SpainRenée gave a talk and chaired a session at the 2023 GRC on WNT signaling, which was held just outside of Barcelona. It was great to catch up with old friends, be emerged in really cool science for a couple of days - and to see the continued influx of young investigators: a clear signal that the WNT field is very much alive and kicking. |
31 July, 2023 |
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New pre-print! Celebrating the first first author submission of MarleenMore cake? Well yes indeed! |
21 July, 2023 |
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Two highlights in oneWe are really excited to announce that our position paper, which is the outcome of the 2022 ENBDC Think Tank held in Amsterdam was published today. |
14 July, 2023 |
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CakeWe had cake to celebrate that we finally managed to get one of our permits approved.
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6 July, 2023 |
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lab BBQThijs hosted our lab BBQ this year, where we celebrated the start of summer, the upcoming completion of the BSc and MSc internships and other highlights - including the award of a starters grant to Thijs and the decision that one of the UD positions available from the sectorplangelden was awarded to our group. |
27 June, 2023 |
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NWO Life conferenceAs one of the committee members of the NWO research community "From Genes To Organisms", Renée chaired a session at the 2023 NWO Life conference. |
23 May, 2023 |
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DSCCB Volleyball teamDespite the fact that some of us were clearly still hiding in the office, but we did compete in the FNWI Volleyball Tournament, with Yorick also dropping by as special reinforcement.
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17 May, 2023 |
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2023 ENBDC Weggis WorkshopMarleen, Tanne and Renée went to Switzerland for the ENBDC Weggis workshop. While the day train made it to Switzerland according to schedule, the NightJet got cancelled just prior to departure, which meant that Renée had to get a last minute airplane ticket after all. Luckily she was on the same flight as Jos Jonkers, which made for good travel company and time to catch up. |
30 April, 2023 |
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First OrganoidNL meetingTogether with colleagues from AMOLF and Utrecht (Hubrecht, UMC and Prinses Máxima), Renée organized the very first OrganoidNL symposium to highlight and celebrate all of the exciting organoid research that is going on in the Netherlands. On the evening prior, Thijs and Renée had the honor and pleasure of taking keynote speaker Jacob Hanna out for dinner. |
31 March, 2023 |
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Our 2023 artist in residence arrivesFrench composer Julia Pajot is our 2023 artist in residence. She has developed her own system to represent various aspects of matter and will apply her system, including spatial orchestration, to our multi scale studies of mammary gland biology - meaning that we should get an orchestral piece of the developmental dynamics of the mammary gland at the molecular, cell and tissue level.
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24 March, 2023 |
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Rosa performs at the InScience FestivalRenée tagged along with our 2021-2022 artist in residence Rosa Schogt to the InScience Festival in Nijmegen, where Rosa performed some of her science inspired poetry in the Amazing Discoveries tent. |
18 March, 2023 |
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Short lecture on stem cells and cancer for high school students and their parentsThe Science Park Campus open day was held on Friday 17 March. This meant that lots of high school students and their parents visited us to get a feel for our university and to see if our Biomedical Sciences Program aligned with the interests and expectations. |
17 March, 2023 |
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Review article on visualizing WNT signaling is outThe review article by Tanne and Renée on Visualizing WNT signaling in mammalian systems came out today. See our publications page for all relevant links. |
16 March, 2023 |
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PhD defense: Saskia becomes dr. De ManToday Saskia defended her PhD thesis in De Agnietenkapel, which was filled to the brim with family, friends and (former) colleagues. This was also the first time that Renée acted in the formal capacity of promotor and used her ius promovendi to officially award Saskia the title of doctor. |
13 March, 2023 |
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EMBO course Techniques for Mammary Gland ResearchTogether with Maria Vivanco (Spain) and Martin Jechlinger (Germany) Renée organised an EMBO practical course at the EMBL campus in Heidelberg. This was the 4th time this course was organised, but the first time that Renée was involved. |
10 March, 2023 |
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Why outreach should count towards valorisation and impactIn the fall, Renée gave a lecture for high school teachers (organised by BetaPartners). Today we learned that one of the teachers was inspired to use the topic of genome editing and the information provided in the lecture to generate new learning materials and assignments for their high school students! |
10 March, 2023 |
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New PhD thesisThe third PhD thesis of the lab has rolled off the press and it looks beautiful. Saskia will defend this impressive body of work on 13 March.
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16 February, 2023 |
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Celebrate good timesScience is full of failure (cloning, grant applications, you name it). Therefore, it is even more important to celebrate the highlights! And luckily we had some happy events too: Anna started - as did most of our students - Tanne’s review article got officially accepted, Renée was co-author on a paper about flying squirrels (it is about WNT5A, really) that was accepted in Science Advances (collaboration with Ricardo Mallino at Princeton), so plenty of reason to have cake, stroopwafels and other cookies (responsibly spread out over multiple weeks).
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6 February, 2023 |
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Welcome students, welcome Anna!Today, Anna started as a technician on the NWO-XL project. We are in the process of recruiting a PhD student, but Anna will help to get things up and running by cloning and generating new reporter alleles and setting up the 3D gastruloid cultures. |
1 February, 2023 |
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27 January, 2023 |