Department Cell Biology

In the spotlight: NWO Vidi grant for Daniele Tauriello

NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) has awarded a Vidi grant to Daniele Tauriello, as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. He receives 800,000 euros to develop an innovative research theme and to build up his group at Cell Biology.

Vidi is aimed at excellent researchers who have been producing successful research for a number of years since obtaining their PhD. These academics are among the best 10 to 20 percent in their field. A Vidi will allow them to conduct research for a period of five years. In this way, NWO stimulates curiosity-driven and innovative research. We congratulate Dr. Tauriello with this funding and wish him a lot of success with his great work.
 
Daniele Tauriello (department: Cell Biology; theme: Tumors of the digestive tract)
Project: Restoring the immune system to prevent cancer from spreading
White blood cells can kill spreading cancer cells but are frequently sidelined by the tumor. The researchers will dissect this process of immune evasion in cultured minitumors to then block it in colon cancer in mice. With this treatment option, they may be able to prevent or cure metastasis.

Proudly presenting our new research group leader: Daniele Tauriello

The website page of Daniele is under construction.
If you have any questions for Daniele please send him an email: Daniele.Tauriello@radboudumc.nl

Or contact the head of the Cell Biology department Alessandra Cambi.

 

Proudly presenting our new assistant professor: Anat Akiva

Anat Akiva is an assistant professor at the Cell Biology Department. Her primary interest is in the field of biomineralization, aiming to understand the processes of hard tissue formation in health and disease. Her research aims at the fundamental understanding of mineralization processes which have essential implications in regenerative medicine. Her most recent activities also include the study of pathological mineralization in bone-related diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and calcification of soft tissues such as atherosclerosis (blood vessel calcification).

Anat received her B.Sc., and M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Chemistry from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her major was in physical chemistry and solid-state NMR. She performed her  PhD studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in the group of Prof Lia Addadi and Prof Steve Weiner, where she investigated the process of bone mineralization in vivo using the zebrafish and chicken embryo as animal models. She mastered advanced imaging and spectroscopy techniques such as in vivo fluorescent confocal imaging, cryo-(FIB)-SEM, Raman and µ-spot X-ray spectroscopy. In 2016 she moved to the Netherlands for her postdoctoral studies at the group of Prof. Nico Sommerdijk in the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where she has established a new research line on Biological Materials Chemistry.

Anat is a Marie Curie fellow (2018), a Veni laureate (2019) and a recipient of the Weizmann Institute of Science - National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science (2017). 

 

2 Winners Cell Biology RIMLS award festival

Leontien van der Bent from our department received the prize for Best MIC image 2018 with the picture of: Immortalized myoblasts from myotonic dystrophy type 1 patient.

Remco van Cruchten received a travel award to visit the International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium meeting in Sweden.

Breakfast@Cell Biology once every 6 weeks!

The department of Cell Biology invites colleagues to give a seminar about their current research issues. The topics range from molecule to men to population with the aim of bridging fundamental cell biological research with clinical questions.

Breakfast in October:

28 October 2019
Guest speaker: Gert-Jan Veenstra.
Topic: “From genomes to cells and back:
Using epigenomics and single cell transcriptomics to understand cell lineage commitment and differentiation”
 
Time: 9.15-10.15 incl. discussion.

Breakfast in December:

16 December 2019
Guest speakers: Niels van Royen, Dept. of Cardiology, Lara Konijnenberg and Robin Nijveldt
Topic: Heart diseases. 
 
Time: 9.15-10.15 incl. discussion.

Internships Cell Biology

Click the links below for information on the regarding internships (PDF).

• Nanoscale Cell Biology

  • Actin isoforms in cancer cell dynamics
  • Cancer-induced osteolysis
  • Role of glycosylation in cell adhesion and migration

  
   

• Cell Dynamics

  • General Cell Dynamics

• Myotonic Dystrophy

  • Elucidating the composition of toxic RNA-protein complexes in myotonic dystrophy
  • Cell Therapy for Myotonic Dystrophy
  • The role of RNA structure in myotonic dystrophy

Getting there

Visiting address

Cell Biology
Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences
Geert Grooteplein 28
6525 GA Nijmegen

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