SILS news
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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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Career Development Award for Frank Jacobs
15 Apr 2016
Researcher Frank Jacobs (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) has received a Career Development Award from the international Human Frontier Science Program for his research proposal ‘Retrotransposons in control of ...
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Gene relocation uncoupled from activity
15 Apr 2016
Researchers Lisette Anink-Groenen and Pernette Verschure (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (UvA)) and their collaborators from the Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht established the ...
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An old gene that learned new tricks
8 Apr 2016
Researchers led by Francesca Quattrocchio and Ronald Koes (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) have discovered a gene encoding a transcription factor (PH3) that remained conserved during the evolution of very ...
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Amsterdam Brain and Cognition grant for Aniko Korosi and Tessa Roseboom
5 Apr 2016
Aniko Korosi (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam) and Tessa Roseboom (Institute Reproduction and Development Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology Women’s and Children's clinic, ...
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Lecturer in the Spotlight: Tonny Mulder
29 Mar 2016
Tonny Mulder is a lecturer for the Bachelor's programmes in Psychobiology and Biomedical Sciences. He left behind his career in cognitive neurophysiology research to devote himself to his passion: developing and ...
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New start-up to introduce innovative microscope
23 Mar 2016
This summer, University of Amsterdam (UvA) start-up Confocal.nl will begin marketing the first-ever microscope with a plug-and-play feature. Specifically, its rescan module offers super-resolution imaging for an even ...
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Amsterdam Brain and Cognition grant for Natalie Cappaert and Jaap Murre
18 Mar 2016
Natalie Cappaert and Jaap Murre (University of Amsterdam) have been awarded an Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC) grant of over 250.000 euro for their project ‘A network approach to unravel the role of the amygdala ...
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Christa Testerink, professor of Plant Cell Biology
25 Feb 2016
Dr C. Testerink (1973) has been appointed professor of Plant Cell Biology at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. This new chair is meant to strengthen the Green Life Sciences Amsterdam cluster of ...
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UvA researchers develop methods for provenance determination of roses
19 Feb 2016
Is a certain flower or crop actually grown in the Netherlands? Are the roses that I buy for Valentine's Day 'fair'? In collaboration with independent knowledge institute Naktuinbouw, researchers at the Swammerdam ...
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Marie Curie Fellowship awarded to nine UvA researchers
15 Feb 2016
The European Commission has awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to 9 researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The fellowship forms part of the Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.
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Technology Area grant for research taste profile
5 Feb 2016
Professors Age Smilde (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences), Robert Hall (Wageningen University & Research Centre) and Thomas Hankemeier (Leiden University) have received a Technology Area grant of 1.4 Million ...
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Endothelial cells close the gap
3 Feb 2016
Researchers from Sanquin (Amsterdam) and UvA-SILS have revealed that local activity of signalling proteins is required to prevent leakage of blood vessels during the inflammation response. The research was ...
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Successful Systems Biology conference
31 Jan 2016
Dr Matteo Barberis (Synthetic Systems Biology and Nuclear Organisation group) has organised and chaired the successful 16th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), held from 23-26 November 2015 in Singapore.
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Two grants awarded in the fight against breast cancer
26 Jan 2016
Renée van Amerongen, MacGillavry fellow and assistant professor in the section of Molecular Cytology at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) was awarded €265k by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF ...
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From visual stimulus to perception
19 Jan 2016
Prof. Cyriel Pennartz and Jorrit Montijn, MSc, of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) have discovered an important pattern in the brain mechanism that allows for the conscious perception of visual ...
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Microscopy centre NKI, UvA and AMC among best in Europe
15 Dec 2015
The van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy (LCAM), a collaboration of the Netherlands Cancer Institute, the AMC-UvA and the UvA's Faculty of Science, is according to Euro-BioImaging one of the leading ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: System microbiology
1 Dec 2015
‘We work together because we want to; together, we produce good science. This is not an institutionalised collaboration that was forced upon is, this really is bottom-up.’ Filipe Branco dos Santos was part of Bas ...
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