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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…
2013.03.01 | Research news
"Curiosity pays off" - publication from the Danish National Research Foundation
The Danish National Research Foundation has written a publication on curiosity-driven research at their Centres of Excellence. The publication includes the article "Basic research gives new companys a unique advantage" about the PUMPkin Centre and its spin-off company Pcovery (the article is only in Danish, "Grundforskning giver nye firmaer en…
2013.02.28 | Research news
Aarhus University celebrates elite partnership
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) – Europe’s flagship for basic research in the life sciences – is including Aarhus University as its Danish partner. This will be celebrated in the Main Hall on 5 March with the inauguration of the DANDRITE neuroscience centre, which will make Aarhus a magnet for top international research into…
2013.02.18 | Research news
JSB Paper-of-the-Year award 2013 to Laure Yatime et al.
The paper "Structural insights into the high affinity binding of cardiotonic steroids to the Na+,K+-ATPase" by Laure Yatime, and Mette Laursen among others, has been awarded the "Paper-of-the-Year" award 2013 by Journal of Structural Biology.
2013.02.12 | Research news
American university students visit Aarhus University
Twenty American undergraduates in biomedicine visit the PUMPkin Centre to learn about its research and see the centre's facilities.
2013.02.11 | Research news
Double up on "JBC Papers in Press" contributed by PUMPkin members
PUMPkin members have two papers in press in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. One is in the category Minireviews by post doc Maike Bublitz et al., and the other is in the category of neurobiology by former PhD student Canan Doganli et al. The 11 February 2013 in the morning only these two papers were listed as in press - which was a really cool…