New publication

Sphingosine kinase interacting protein is an A-kinase anchoring protein specific for type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase,

 D. Kovanich, M.A. van der Heyden, T.T. Aye, T.A. van Veen, A.J.R. Heck, A. Scholten

Abstract

The compartmentalization of kinases and phosphatases plays an important role in the specificity of second-messenger-mediated signaling events. Lo...

Monday, 17 May 2010

Albert Heck co-director of INSTRUCT Associate Centre for Mass Spectrometry

Albert Heck co-director of INSTRUCT Associate Centre for Mass Spectrometry

Albert Heck (Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, University Utrecht) and Carol Robinson (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) will co-direct the INSTRUCT Associate Centre for Mass Spectrometry.

INSTRUCT is part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and is funde...

Monday, 26 April 2010

Bioinformaticians receive SURFnet award from Minister Plasterk

Péter Horvatovitch  (University of Groningen, NBIC) and Bas van Breukelen (University of Utrecht, NBIC-NPC) won the “Enlighten your Research” -award for their proposal “High Speed light path network for the Netherlands Bioinformatics for Proteomics Platform”. The prize giving ceremony by Minister Plasterk was part of the launching event of GigaPort3 on February 18th 2010.

"Enlighten your research" is a competition on dynamics lig...

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Terugkeer van hoofd-halskanker bij patiënten te voorspellen

Terugkeer van hoofd-halskanker bij patiënten te voorspellen

Aanwezigheid eiwit voorspelt risico op terugkeer tumor

Bij ongeveer 20% van de patiënten komt na een operatie aan een hoofd-hals tumor, de tumor weer terug. Tot voor kort was het onmogelijk om te voorspellen bij welke patiënten dit wel of juist niet zou gebeuren. Nu blijkt dat een lage concentratie van de eiwitten k...

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Albert Heck Guest Professor Systems Biology, ETH Zürich

The Rectorate of the ETH Zürich  has appointed NPC scientific director Albert Heck as guest professor Systems Biology. As of March 1^st 2010 Heck will work for 5 months as guest professor at the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, headed by Ruedi Aebersold. Heck is very pleased with his appointment and will use his period at the ETH Zürich to reflect on the future role of mass spectrometry in Systems Biology a...

Tuesday, 12 January 2010