7 ECTS project: Jasper Veerman

Section 1: personal information Name: Jasper Veerman Year Honours year 1 (is when I conducted the experiments). Currently 2nd year MSc. NB Choice of project Research overview Title of project: Mobility of Molecules in the Nucleoid   Section 2a: brief summary of the project Give a brief summary of your project of approximately 200 words. …

3D chromatin conformation in disease pathology

Seminar 10 Honours Programme   Aïsha Mientjes aishamientjes@gmail.com 4460960   Speaker: Stefan Mundlos Department: Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (seminar given at the hematology department) Subject: 3D chromatin conformation in disease pathology Location: Erasmus MC Date: 16-04-2018   On Monday the 16th of April, a seminar was given in the pathology department of the …

The network regulating protein folding

Speaker: G. Elif Karagoz Department: Uni. of California, San Fransisco (UCSF) Subject: Sensing and Responding to Protein Folding Stress in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Location: Bionanoscience, Delft Date: 13-04-2018    Name: Raman van Wee Seminar 6   In her short talk Elif Karagoz tried to touch upon as much research as she has carried out so far, making …

Taking a new perspective on pattern formation

Speaker: Erwin Frey Department: LMU Munich Subject: Self-organisation and pattern formation in cellular systems Location: Bionanoscience, Delft Date: 13-04-2018    Name: Raman van Wee Seminar 7     Frey started his talk showing a video of MinD & MinE proteins oscillating in E.Coli. One of the functions of these oscillations is timing the moment of cell division. …

ByE report: organizing ByE options

When I was looking for a topic for my Broaden-your-Experience project, I had a really hard time finding something that I liked. There were a couple of examples to be found on Blackboard (which we still used at the time), but all but one of them were outdated and not applicable anymore. The last available …

“A novel pathway repairs endogenous DNA interstrand crosslinks”

Speaker:             Puck Knipscheer Department:     Hubrecht institute Subject:              Repair pathways of interstrand crosslinks Location:            Delft, A1.100 Date:                    06-04-2018 Author:              Maricke Angenent   Puck Knipscheer is currently running her own laboratory group at the Hubrecht institute. She gave a presentation on her recent findings, revealing a promising …

Studying human aging by means of high throughput microscopy and a HGPS cell model

Speaker: Nard Kubben Department: Centre for Cancer Research at NIH Subject: High-Throughput Microscopy & Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome: Brothers-in-arms to Discover Origins of Aging Location: Erasmus MC Date: 03-04-2018       Author: Nemo Andrea Nard Kubben is a researchers for the centre of cancer research at the national institutes of health. In his talk, he discussed his recent work on aging, …

Single-Cell Dynamics of Genome-Nuclear Lamina Interactions

Seminar 9 Honours Programme Aïsha Mientjes aishamientjes@gmail.com 4460960 Seminar: 9 Speaker: Jop Kind Department: Hubrecht Institute (seminar given at the hematology department) Subject: Single-Cell Dynamics of Genome-Nuclear Lamina Interactions Location: Erasmus MC Date: 19-03-2018 On Monday the 19th of March, a seminar was given by Jop Kind, from the Hubrecht Institute. His group mainly focusses …

Exploring bacteriophage potential

Illustrative figure of the damage C. difficile does to the gut. Extracted from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com Department: Uni. of Zürich & Uni. of Leicester,  dept. of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Subject: Bacteriophages to treat Urinary Tract and Clostridium Difficile infection Location: Paushuize, Utrecht             Date: 22-02-2018 Seminar 5    Name: Raman van Wee Dr. W. Sybesma from Zürich and …

SUMO: Wrestling with the cell cycle

Name: Aïsha​ ​Mientjes aishamientjes@gmail.com OR a.mientjes@student.tudelft.nl Student number: 4460960 Seminar ​ 8:​ Speaker: Alfred Vertegaal​ ​ Department:​ LUMC Leiden (seminar at Hematology department) Subject:​ ‘Sumoylation’ processes and interference with the cell cycle Location:​ ​Erasmus MC Date:​ 12-02-2018 On the 12th of February, I attended a seminar given by Alfred Vertegaal of the LUMC Leiden. He presented …