Henriëtte L. Lanz, Rhyenne M.E. Zimmerman, Jacob Brouwer, Mathieu H.M. Noteborn and Claude Backendorf in CCDis.

Mitotic catastrophe is an oncosuppressive mechanism that senses mitotic failure leading to cell death or senescence. As such it protects against aneuploidy and genetic instability and its induction in cancer cells by exogenous agents is currently seen as a promising therapeutic endpoint.

Now online in Nature Communications our first studies on the action and interplay of the chromatin proteins Alba1 and Alba1 from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

Now online in Nucleic Acids Research our first studies on the chromatin proteins Sul7 and Cren7 from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

De Groene Amsterdammer presenteert de tien grootste doorbraken in de wetenschap. 89 bèta-wetenschappers beantwoordden vragen over de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in hun vakgebied, de doorbraken die ze verwachten, en de waarde van hun wetenschap voor de samenleving.

Remus Dame together with Olivier Espeli, David Grainger and Paul Wiggins are organizing an international workshop on 'The Biology and Physics of Bacterial Genome Organization' that will be hosted at the Lorentz Center at Leiden University, The Netherlands.

A FEBS Long Term fellowship has been awarded to Dr Rajesh Shahapure.

In 2005 Shih-Cheng Chen started his PhD research at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC). He described the results of this research in his PhD thesis. He will defend this PhD thesis on April 28 at 16.15 at the Academiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73).

‘Proteins killing tumour cells’ edited by Claude Backendorf, Mathieu H.M. Noteborn, Mahvash Tavassoli.

‘Bacterial Chromatin’ edited by Remus T. Dame and Charles J. Dorman.

A research grant has been awarded to the ‘Chromatin organisation & dynamics’ group within the FES nano/biotechnology program ‘Towards a sustainable open innovation ecosystem’.

A joint research grant has been awarded to TMC Chemical and the ‘Chromatin organisation & dynamics’ group.

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Dr. Remus Th. Dame has been awarded an NWO VIDI grant of € 600.000. The VIDI grants are the second most substantial grants in the NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.