15-02-2007 Biogenesis, Translocation and Sorting

• Nicole  Testerink (Veterinary Medicine Biochemistry and Cell Biology):
  formation and degradation of lipid droplets in hepatic stellate cells
• Vincent van Dam (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Transport of peptidoglycan sub-units across the bacterial membrane

15-03-2007 Signal Transduction

• Dianne van der Wal (Medicine – UMCU Clinical Chemistry and Haematology – UMCU):
  Role of Glycoprotein IBA mobility in platelet destruction and function
• Anja  Gerrits (Medicine – UMCU Clinical Chemistry and Haematology – UMCU):
  Insulin inhibits tissue factor expression in monocytes
• Masja van Oort (Science – Dept. of Biology Endocrinology & Metabolism):
  CD36 translocation in a model cell system

19-04-2007 Membrane Proteins & Vascular Membrane Biology

• Erica  Kremer (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Assembly recognition and stability of oligomeric membrane proteins
• Nick  Olrichs (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Proteomics on the bacterial wallosome
• Nico  Boot (Science – Dept. of Biology Cell Biology):
  Semi-quantitative analysis of the apoplast proteome of Arabidopsis infected with the oomycete Hyaloperonospora parasitica

24-05-2007 Biogenesis, Translocation and Sorting

• Yvonne te Welscher (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Natamycin blocks fungal growth by binding specifically to ergosterol
• Freya  Senf (Science – Dept. of Biology Molecular Microbiology):
  XcpS of Pseudomonas aeruginosa:processing and multimerisation
• David  Halter (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Two steps forward, one step back:Transport and translocation of glucosylceramide

11-10-2007 Biogenesis, Translocation and Sorting

• Sylvia  Neumann (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Transfer of lipid-linked proteins to lipoproteins
• Jan  Grijpstra (Science – Dept. of Biology Molecular Microbiology):
  Production of extracellular polysaccharides by CAP mutants of Cryptococcus neoformans
• Mustafa  Ulasli (Medicine – UMCU Cell Biology):
  Hijacking the cellular machinery of autophagy by Coronaviruses
• Sigrid  Roosendaal (Science – Dept. of Biology Endocrinology & Metabolism):
  A structural perspective on the interaction between the insect lipoprotein receptor, LpR, and its ligands

15-11-2007 All Themes

• Diana  Stork (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Studying cell wall synthesis by in vivo photo-cross-linking of PBP 1b in E. coli
• Eline van Meel (Medicine – UMCU Cell Biology):
  Mannose 6-phosphate receptor independent lysosomal transport pathways in I-cell disease patients
• Catheleyne  Puts (Science – Dept. of Chemistry Membrane Biochemistry & Biophysics):
  Dissecting the role of lipid flippases in vesicle-mediated lipid transport
• Mirjam  Meltzer (Medicine – UMCU Clinical Chemistry and Haematology – UMCU):
  hypofibrinolysis as a risk factor for a first myocardial infarction’

13-12-2007 Signal Transduction

• Pei-Shiue  Tsai (Veterinary Medicine Biochemistry and Cell Biology):
  Capacitation-dependent formation of a SNARE protein complex involved in the acrosome reaction
• Ana  Almeida da Silva (Medicine – UMCU Cell Biology):
  Investigation of Binding characteristics of the GHR-betaTrCP interaction (at molecular and cellular level)
• Johan  Slotman (Medicine – UMCU Cell Biology):
  Proteomic analysis of ubiquitination in membrane trafficking of the GHR
• Milla  Summanen (formerly Paalanen) (Science – Dept. of Biology Cell Biology):
  Protein Kinase C Isozymes and the Inhibition of Insulin Signalling by Free Fatty Acids