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Medical Biochemistry
Vidi for Marten Hoeksema!
Congratulations to dr. Aukie Hooglugt for finishing his PhD
Paper accepted in Current Opinion in Lipidology! Our review article together with Daniel Kober’s group (UTSW) summarizing recent mechanistic and structural findings on the SPRING-S1P-SREBP axis is now out. If you want to understand how this system works have a look. Congrats to Ilaria Micallo and Ashley Bullington for putting this together!
Biochemical Bulldogs at the Amsterdam UMC football tournament. The football team of the Medical Biochemistry department joined the yearly football tournament at the football fields of FC Abcoude:
Project MERCURY is taking off! Prof Noam Zelcer has been awarded an NWO open competition grant to study hepatic APOB metabolism and VLDL production. To do so, innovative proteomic and genetic approaches coupled to in vivo studies will be used to understand how APOB/VLDL is lipidated, trafficked, and secreted in hepatocytes.
At the annual Dutch Atherosclerosis Society (DAS) meeting, Lobke received the award for Best Flash Talk for her presentation on the role of LXR in macrophage immune activation, while Ricky was awarded Best Poster Presentation for his work on the role of IRF1 in macrophage function. Congratulations to both!
Ricky Siebeler won the best presentation award on the annual Amsterdam institute for Immunology and Infectious diseases (AII) symposium for his presentation on Endogenous Retroviral Elements as regulators of macrophage activation. Congratulations!!
AtheroTalk with Noam Zelcer Noam shares his perspectives on the evolving field of lipid metabolism research. Besides his scientific insights, he encourages us to discuss our failures, which are “a feature of science, not a bug”. Another key message: “Define clear go/no-go milestones for your project”. If you are interested in his work, he currently has an open position for a PhD student as also discussed during this episode. Script-prep: Pelin Golforoush and Emiel van der Vorst Interviewer: Emiel van der Vorst https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/e13-noam-zelcer/id1780340626?i=1000708428204
