Researchers have developed a new organoid model that can be used to study the thymus. This model presents new opportunities to study thymus function and can bring insights into the treatment of patients with impaired thymus function. Read more: hubrecht.eu/organoid-model…

Bernhard Kramer, Postdoc in the Marvin Tanenbaum group, received an EMBO Fellowship for his project on virus evolution. Curious about what happens when a cell is infected by two influenza viruses? Read more here: hubrecht.eu/embo-bernhard-…

On April 12th, 2024, the OrganoidNL Conference was held at the AMOLF institute in Amsterdam. This event united over 160 researchers from the Netherlands and neighbouring countries, all passionate about organoid research. Read a recap here: hubrecht.eu/organoidnl-202… OrganoidNL

Research from Kops Lab and Earnshaw lab (The University of Edinburgh) on centromere structure yields new insights into the mechanisms of chromosome segregation errors which commonly occur in cancer, showing that the centromere consists of two subdomains. Cell hubrecht.eu/kops-centromer…

Congratulations to Marvin Tanenbaum and Ina Sonnen, for receiving M-grants from NWO! These grants will allow their research groups to dive deeper into viral infections and signalling oscillations during embryonic development, respectively. Read more: hubrecht.eu/nwo-grant-sonn…

Researchers studied the cellular signals involved in liver growth and applied their insights to improve adult liver organoid cultures. This may help understand how to promote liver regeneration in patients with liver disease. hubrecht.eu/liver-cell-gro… Delilah Hendriks benedetta artegiani

Congratulations to the DRIVE-RM consortium, including researchers from UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, TU Eindhoven,Maastricht University and the Hubrecht Institute for being awarded a NWO Funding Summit grant worth €37.5 million for regenerative medicine. hubrecht.eu/summit-nwo-gra… RM Utrecht

Check out the beautiful art by our own Simona Lafirenze, inspired by our recent discovery on bipartite centromeres of mitotic chromosomes! Hubrecht Institute Oncode Institute UMC Utrecht

Congratulations to Simona Lafirenze for making this beautiful art for the cover of the current issue of Cell, to accompany a recent paper by Carlos Sacristan Lopez from the Kops Lab. Read more: hubrecht.eu/kops-centromer…

New scEdU-seq method developed by Alexander van Oudenaarden group measures DNAreplication speed in individual cells & may provide new insights into DNAreplication, embryonic development & cancer. hubrecht.eu/method-dna-rep… Jeroen van den Berg vincentvB Sergio Perez Acebron Anchel de Jaime-Soguero Marcel van Vugt Rinskje

Congratulations to Silke Lochs! Today, Silke defended her thesis ‘Connecting the dots: Developing multimodal sequencing technologies to study gene regulation in single cells.’ Read more about her PhD research here: hubrecht.eu/thesis-silke-l…

Phong Nguyen (Phong Nguyen 🇦🇺🇳🇱🇫🇷) started his research lab at Institut Curie, where he will look into the regenerative capacity in the zebrafish heart, like he did as a postdoc with Jeroen Bakkers. Last night he was honored as an Eppendorf award finalist. institut-curie.org/equipe/nguyen

Congratulations to Clément Rouillon who successfully defended his thesis ‘One Chaperone to Rule Them All: Deciphering How Chromatin is Assembled During DNA Replication’ today! Read more about his research here: hubrecht.eu/thesis-clement…

Congratulations to jop kind for receiving an ERC proof-of-concept (POC) grant which will be used to develop and commercialize a technology for early cancer detection based on multiplexed epigenetic profiling in blood plasma. Read more: hubrecht.eu/erc-grant-jop-… Oncode Institute

We are excited that Puck Knipscheer and Themis Liolios contributed to this research from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge on DNA repair, which was published in Nature today! Read more here: hubrecht.eu/dna-repair-mys…

Congratulations to Jeroen Bakkers, who received an M-grant from NWO! He will use this to study how the heart’s left-right asymmetry arises during zebrafish development. Read more here! hubrecht.eu/nwo-grant-bakk…

Future of Organoids w/ Hans Clever Hubrecht Institute Join Hans Clevers as he unveils the groundbreaking potential of organoids in bridging in vitro & in vivo testing. These 3D mini-organs are set to revolutionize personalized cancer therapies Tune in: buff.ly/4cXQK8f

Congratulations to Dr. Franka Rang who defended her thesis ‘Decoding Developmental Epigenetics: Innovation and implementation of single-cell techniques to study epigenetic regulation in embryonic development’. Read more about her research here: hubrecht.eu/thesis-franka-…

🧬 Researchers from the Kind group gained new insights into how DNA organizes itself within the cells of early embryos. Read more 👇 hubrecht.eu/dna-organizati… jop kind Oncode Institute Radboud University @[email protected]

Excited to share our latest work Nature Genetics on the forces that shape spatial genome organization in mouse totipotent 2-cell embryos. Spearheaded by Isabel Guerreiro and Franka Rang together with Antoine Peters. Hubrecht Institute Oncode Institute RIMLS-Science nature.com/articles/s4158…