Centre for Membrane Pumps in Cells and Disease - PUMPkin
News
2013.03.08 | Research news
Last image in a molecular ‘cartoon strip’ now in place
Researchers from the PUMPkin Centre at Aarhus University have worked together with a newly started biotech company to draw the last image in a scientific ‘comic strip’ that illustrates the migration and function of calcium in the body. Their discovery has been published in the journal Nature and has great significance for product development –…
2013.03.06 | Research news
Lundbeck Foundation Centre in Aarhus for top European brain research
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, is now joining forces with Aarhus University as its Danish partner of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine. On the initiative of the Lundbeck Foundation, a new elite research centre – DANDRITE – is to form the prestigious setting for…
2013.03.06 | Research news
PUMPkin and Pcovery pave the way for research in new heart medicine
The Danish specialized newspaper The Engineer ("Ingeniøren") describes the important findings of the new Nature publication by PUMPkin and Pcovery. Results show that it is the interaction between two proteins that controls the heart beat, and this could lead to new possibilities for focussed research in heart medicine. (Article only in Danish)
2013.03.04 | Research news
A gateway to the muscle calcium pump - joint Nature publication by the PUMPkin Centre and PCovery
New publication in Nature on "The sarcolipin-bound calcium pump stabilizes calcium sites exposed to the cytoplasm" by PUMPkin and Pcovery fellows, published online in March 2013
2013.03.01 | Research news
Front cover of Journal of Cell Science - and research article
The front cover of the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Cell Science is made by former PUMPkin fellow Canan Doğanlı, and Jakob Kibsgaard. The beautiful picture shows the zebrafish ATP1a2 in a slow-twitch muscle cell. Transcripts encoding the Na+/K+-ATPase α2-isoform (Atp1a2) are predominantly expressed in slow-twitch muscles, and not…
Events
- Mon 26 Aug
- 09:00-22:00 | Location to be announced
Annual Summer Meeting of the PUMPkin Centre
This year's PUMPkin Summer Meeting takes place the 26-27 August 2013. The meeting will be held somewhere in the area of Djurslnad. More information will follow soon. - Tue 27 Aug
- 09:00-14:00 | Location to be announced
Annual Summer Meeting of the PUMPkin Centre
This year's PUMPkin Summer Meeting takes place the 26-27 August 2013. The meeting will be held somewhere in the area of Djurslnad. More information will follow soon.
Highlights 2011 from the PUMPkin Centre
Read about the exciting scientific highlights during 2011, including a few words on our midterm evaluation.