NWO, our Dutch national science funder, has signed the new “Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment” (ARRA). This is bad news. See our letter: Europe should maintain measurable criteria for assessing scientists. Recognition & Rewards Science Europe NWO Nieuws 1/n

Great vibes at the first ever joint retreat of the Julien Duxin and Puck Knipscheer lab! Amazing talks and discussions 🐸🧬 #xenopus #dnarepair

Only one week left to apply for a junior/senior group leader position at our institute! The vacancy and information on how to apply can be found here: hubrecht.eu/job/group-lead… 📸: Jeroen Korving

If you are interested in an update on G-quadruplex (G4) structure resolution Quadruplex_Papers, check out our review in the special issue of DNA repair on genome maintenance @DNArepair. Many thanks to Koichi Sato Koichi Sato who did most of the work. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…

Are you interested in doing a PhD in our lab in Amsterdam to discover ‘hidden’ biology using #genetics? The application deadline of the #PhDprogram at the Netherlands Cancer Institute bit.ly/44iOcOc ends on the 3rd of September!

The Hubrecht Institute has openings for junior and senior group leaders. It's open to any discipline in life sciences. The Hubrecht is truly one of the best places in the world to start your lab, so apply! hubrecht.eu/job/tenure-tra…

Afscheidsbijdrage van ⁦Jorrit Kelder⁩: “Universitair beleid vloeit niet voort uit de wensen en behoeften van wetenschappers, maar beantwoordt steeds vaker verzoeken uit Den Haag. (..) Laat onderzoekers het bepalen, die weten waarover ze het hebben.“ mareonline.nl/opinie/den-haa…

Are you interested in DNA replication, DNA repair or chromatin? Do you have a passion to find out how proteins function in these processes? Are you collaborative and ambitious? Check out these open positions in my lab (and @FMattiroli lab): hubrecht.eu/about-us/worki…

Our latest work on FANCD2-FANCI (D2-I), a complex that helps resolve DNA crosslinks and replication stress, is out! nature.com/articles/s4158… We show D2-I acts as a sliding clamp on DNA, stalling at single-stranded gaps to identify and protect damage sites. Lori Passmore David Rueda

Thrilled to share our new finding that the DUB USP37 suppresses rogue ubiquitylation and disassembly of stressed replisomes by TRAIP. Fantastic collaboration between Olga Kochenova in my lab and Giusi D’Alessandro in Steve Jackson’s lab! Read all about it: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Supervisory Board appoints Thijn Brummelkamp as a Member of the Executive Board/Scientific Director of the NKI as of Dec 1, 2024, succeeding Ton Schumacher who served as an ad interim scientific director following René Medema's departure in April 2024: bit.ly/4fg0ZGm