SILS news
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UvA coordinates Cognition research in Human Brain Project
20 Sept 2016
The UvA has been awarded a coordinating role in the Human Brain Project, funded by the European Union designed to deepen our knowledge of the brain. UvA Professor Cyriel Pennartz is coordinating a subproject on ...
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Intracellular pH as key growth indicator
16 Sept 2016
In a collaborative effort between the universities of Amsterdam and Antwerp, the groups of professor Stanley Brul and dr Erik Manders published an Applied and Environmental Microbiology paper that was elevated to ...
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UvA programmes in Biology, Psychobiology and Biological Sciences assessed as ‘good’
16 Sept 2016
The UvA’s Bachelor’s programmes in Psychobiology and Biology and Master’s programme in Biological Sciences have been assessed as ‘good’ by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). All ...
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Plant Enhancers
15 Sept 2016
Dr Maike Stam and the PhD students Rurika Oka, Blaise Weber (Plant Development and (Epi)genetics, SILS) and Johan Zicola (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding) of the EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN EpiTRAITS project have ...
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Grant for siFLIM technique
15 Sept 2016
STW has awarded an OTP grant to expand a new microscopy technique, siFLIM. This novel super-fast fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy system has been generated and tested in a collaboration involving researchers ...
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Grant for research into solar energy storage
13 Sept 2016
Microbiologist Filipe Branco dos Santos and chemist Joost Reek of the University of Amsterdam have been awarded a grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for their research into new ways for ...
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ERC Starting Grants for seven UvA researchers
13 Sept 2016
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Starting Grant to seven researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). This individual grant, which is about 1.5 million euros for each project, offers talented ...
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Brain more robust than previously thought
19 Aug 2016
The brain is well capable of coping with the erratic way individual brain cells transmit information. This robustness is quite useful because variation in signal transmission doesn’t merely concern noise, but also ...
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Benno ter Kuile, professor by special appointment of Microbial Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance in the Food Chain
8 July 2016
Dr B.H. ter Kuile (1956) has been named professor by special appointment of Microbial Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance in the Food Chain at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was ...
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STW grant for sharper microscopy images
5 July 2016
Re-scanning Confocal Microscopy is a new super-resolution technique developed by Erik Manders (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) and his team who have been working on innovative microscopy technologies for ...
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Green Innovation Cluster gets boost from European funding
28 June 2016
The European Fund for Regional Development (EFRO) and the North-Holland province have awarded full funding to the Green Innovation Cluster (GIC) initiative of Greenport Aalsmeer and the University of Amsterdam. The ...
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Brain award for Jeanette Lorteije
14 June 2016
On 27 May 2016, Jeannette Lorteije (Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience) received the 'Brain Award for Scientific Excellence' from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience for her publication: 'The Formation of ...
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SILS team wins Beach Volley Ball Tournament 2016
10 June 2016
On Thursday, 26 May, the SILS volleyball team 'Groene Vingers', led by Frank Takken (Molecular Plant Pathology), won the Challenge Cub of the FNWI Beach Volley Ball Tournament 2016. Congratulations!
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Hyper-acidification as universal mechanism
3 June 2016
Researchers from the SILS Plant Development and (Epi)Genetics group have discovered that species all throughout the plant kingdom use what is described as a super proton pump to ensure a strong pH gradient. This ...
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Folia film interview with Erik Manders
1 June 2016
Erik Manders, SILS researcher and scientific director of spin-off company Confocal.nl, explains new microscope techniques and the advantages of high-resolution imaging in this short (Dutch-spoken) movie produced by ...
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Genomes of Petunia parents mapped
27 May 2016
An international team, including Rob Schuurink, Maaike Boersma, Tijs Bliek, Kees Spelt, Valentina Passeri, Ronald Koes and Francesca Quattrocchio (UvA Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) and colleagues of the ...
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Bio Art & Design Award for art project SILS researchers
24 May 2016
Artists Lilian van Daal and Roos Meerman won a Bio Art & Design Award for a project in which they will collaborate with Katrin Wiese and Renée van Amerongen of the UvA Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences. The ...
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Breakthrough on antibiotic resistance development
18 May 2016
The Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety group (SILS) has recently published on acquisition of antibiotic resistance by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They show that development of ...
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Radio interview Michel Haring
15 May 2016
Is the food diversity endangered by large international companies claiming patents on the natural properties of edible plants? Michel Haring offers an explanation in the radio show ‘Vroege Vogels’ (in Dutch).
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Spider mites paralyze host plants
19 Apr 2016
Spider mites secrete proteins via their saliva that suppress the natural resistances in their host plants. This was discovered by a group of researchers under supervision of Merijn Kant and Rob Schuurink of the UvA ...
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