SILS news
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Giulia de Luca nominated for VIVA400 list
8 Oct 2015
PhD student Giulia de Luca (Molecular Cytology) has earned a spot on the VIVA400 list in the category ‘knappe koppen’ (smart thinkers). With the helpful insights of her supervisor dr. Erik Manders and the lab ...
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Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship for 14 Faculty of Science students
6 Oct 2015
On Thursday 1 October, fourteen Faculty of Science students received the Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship from Rector Magnificus Dymph van den Boom. The Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship was founded by the ...
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Subcellular location determines shape of the cell
5 Oct 2015
Research carried out in the chair group Molecular Cytology (prof. T.W.J. Gadella Jr.) of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) demonstrates that the subcellular location of signaling proteins affects cell ...
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UvA coordinates sensory mapping of the brain
2 Oct 2015
Researchers Umberto Olcese and Conrado Bosman (Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) have been awarded a three-year grant by the FLAG-ERA Joint Transnational Call ...
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How the brain represents the world
1 Oct 2015
The neurosciences have made great strides in gaining a better understanding of the brain and its relation to cognitive processes. It is nevertheless striking, especially in these early years of the 21st century, that ...
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Scientific Research at UvA-VU: Systems Biology research group
22 Sept 2015
For a good ten years now, systems biologists at the Zuidas campus have been working together with colleagues at Science Park. The VU researchers work in the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences department of Molecular ...
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Understanding the effects of salt on plants
16 Sept 2015
It has been known for some time that plants protect themselves from soils with high levels of salinity by rerouting their roots to avoid local high salt concentrations. In a recent review and video abstract published ...
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NWO grant for research into salinity tolerance in crops
31 Aug 2015
Plant physiologist Dr Christa Testerink of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences is to receive a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for research into the effects of salinity on ...
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When does a plant flower?
16 June 2015
In a series of YouTube videos, suitable and fun to watch for all ages, a group of young academics illustrate their research on plant development and more specifically flowering. The researchers are part of the ...
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Marten Smidt appointed new director of SILS
15 June 2015
Marten Smidt, professor of Molecular Neuroscience, has been appointed director of the UvA's Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS). He will assume his duties as SILS director effective 1 July 2015, taking over ...
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European funding for sustainable crop production
26 May 2015
Frank Takken and Martijn Rep researchers at the Molecular Plant Pathology group, of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) awarded a Marie Curie Action programme entailing around 4 million Euro. The grant ...
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Phd in the Spotlight: Magdalena Julkowska
13 Apr 2015
Magdalena Julkowska (1986) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam on 30 April. During her doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) she learned more about how ...
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Dierenbescherming nominates researcher Peter Hordijk
10 Apr 2015
Special Chair molecular cellular biologist Peter Hordijk, of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), has been nominated by the Dutch Animal Protection Society Dierenbescherming for their "Courage in the ...
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Science faculties UvA-VU launch popular science magazine
26 Mar 2015
The first issue of the popular science magazine ‘Amsterdam Science’ was officially released earlier today during the Dies Natalis celebrations of the UvA’s Faculty of Science. A joint initiative of the University of ...
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ABC grant awarded to Carien Lansink and Heleen Slagter
24 Mar 2015
Dr Carien Lansink of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and Dr Heleen Slagter (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) have been awarded a research grant of €250,000.- by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition ...
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ABC grant awarded to Paul Lucassen and Liesbeth Reneman
17 Mar 2015
Prof. dr Paul Lucassen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) has been awarded a €250.000,- project grant together with Dr Liesbeth Reneman (AMC) by Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center for their project: 'Detecting ...
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Photanol and AkzoNobel collaboration wins Bio Business Award 2015
3 Mar 2015
The collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA) spin-off company Photanol and the chemical group AkzoNobel has been awarded the WBM Bio Business Award 2015 in the category of Bio-based Chemical ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: Bacterial Cell Biology
19 Feb 2015
VU University’s Dr Joen Luirink studies processes in bacterial cell envelopes. One of his projects focuses on a protein complex that plays a crucial role in the division of bacteria. Cell division is also the focus ...
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Giulia De Luca (SILS) wins Upcoming Scientist Award at Innovation for Health 2015
17 Feb 2015
Giulia De Luca, PhD candidate with the Molecular Cytology group at the Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences (SILS), won the Upcoming Scientist Award at the Innovation for Health conference held in Amsterdam in ...
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Three Faculty of Science researcher amongst Vici recipients
17 Feb 2015
Biologist Frank Takken (Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences) and physicists Florian Schreck (Institute of Physics, IoP) Femius Koenderink (IoP and FOM-institute AMOLF), all affiliated with the Faculty of Science ...