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Teaching and Training Double Act Newsletter of the Centre for Genomic Regulation Life @ CRG Issue 2 April 2013 TEACHING AND TRAINING DOUBLE ACT he CRG now has two great spaces for training gies, BIO-RAD, Werfen Group – IZASA, Grupo Taper, and outreach activities. Early this year we opened Gilson, Nirco and Biogen Científica S.L. Thanks to the T Teaching & Training Lab 1, and Teaching and apparatus in the new labs our scientists have access to Training Lab 2 is now also up and running. In these two the most advanced research techniques. labs, the CRG has more than 100 m2 equipped with the most up-to-date research equipment for training courses From now on, lots of experiments, demonstrations, for researchers, new equipment demonstrations and courses and hands-on workshops will take place in these educational workshops for students and the general public. two new labs. So, remember to check their availability in the intranet room-booking system and contact the Much of the equipment has been donated by companies General Services department if you have any doubts or related to research such as Eppendorf, Life Technolo- questions. < THE CRG JOINS To strengthen links between different BARCELONA GLOBAL partners, a delegation from Barcelona Global visited the CRG on March 22. The CRG together with other scien- After talks with Andreu Mas-Colell, the tific institutes in Barcelona has joined Minister for Economy and Knowledge Barcelona Global, a private, indepen- of the Catalan Government, they visited dent and non-profit platform made up the IRB, the PRBB and the CRG. of business leaders, professionals and Mr. Antoni Castellà, Secretary for Universitites The tour helped them realise the key entrepreneurs committed to Barcelona and Research (left), and Josep M Martorell, role Barcelona research institutes Director General for Research (right). and its future. are playing in promoting Barcelona internationally. They also had the From now on, research will be part of vate and public partnerships, aims to chance to get to know more about this platform, which, through transversal open up the economy and make Barce- biomedical research by participating collaboration between different areas lona more attractive for both business in a hands-on workshop in the CRG and collective initiatives including pri- and talent. Teaching and Training Lab. < EDITORIAL n his last appearance in the Catalan par- plicitly about their continuing commitment to liament, the Economy & Knowledge the EMBL placing one of its outstations at the I Minister confirmed the government’s CRG. commitment to continue working on the three strategic focuses that define the path to excel- Issues such as the proposed rationalisation lence: a) continuity in attracting and retaining of the research system in Catalonia and the talent through the ICREA programme, b) re- preparation of the first Catalan Science Act search centres and the establishment of poli- were also mentioned. Finally, thanks to the cies to stimulate the transfer of technology and upward trend of excellence indicators over the Marian Marrodan knowledge, and internationalisation, and c) past two years, Catalunya now ranks third in CEO major infrastructures. A clear indicator of this the EU by number of ERC grants per capita, commitment was the 8% increase in the 2012 and the CRG is a great example of this; the research budget. Minister insisted that full advantage must be taken of the new opportunities that the Hori- All these statements are being translated into zon 2020 programme for R+D+i will present. concrete action, which from the CRG’s per- spective must be seen very positively. It is Above all, in this extremely complex situation, worth highlighting the announcement of the it is good to know that the CRG and other re- budget continuity and the shielding of com- search centres can count on institutional sup- petences in research centres, in terms of pro- port to move forward. Thanks to this backing tecting our personnel and financial autonomy, and the commitment of the entire CRG com- and freedom for recruiting high-profile scien- munity, we have become an internationally tific staff. In addition, the Minister spoke ex- recognised reference centre. < CRG & CO PEGGY JANICH FUNDING FOR agents for osteoporosis and cancer.” AWARDED THE EVALUATION PROJECT The researchers want to demonstrate EPPENDORF PRIZE ON OSTEOPOROSIS the therapeutic potential of synthetic FOR THE BEST CRG AND CANCER variants of RANKL using an in silico DOCTORAL THESIS strategy. The development of these syn- The Catalan government and the Obra So- thetic variants may have application in Peggy Janich has been awarded the Eppen- cial “la Caixa” are promoting excellence in the treatment of osteoporosis, diabetes dorf Prize for the best CRG doctoral thesis research and innovation through five eval- and cancer, and be extended to other for 2011-2012. She did her doctoral work, uation and knowledge transfer projects in related proteins for the treatment of in- entitled “The role of circadian rhythms in the fields of photonics, biomedicine, chem- flammatory and autoimmune diseases. epidermal homeostasis”, in the Epithelial istry, bioengineering and genomics. These Homeostasis and Cancer Group led by projects are the result of a collaboration In April, there was a public presentation of Salvador Aznar-Benitah. She has already agreement between the two institutions, on this and the other projects funded, chaired published her results in relevant journals which the bank will spend 2.5 million euros by the Minister of Economy and Knowl- including Nature, and was selected as a over two years, the aim being the commer- edge, Andreu Mas-Colell, the CEO of the finalist in the “Vanguardia de la Ciencia” cial exploitation of research results. Fundació “La Caixa”, Jaume Lanaspa , the competition. She is currently a postdoc Secretary for Universities and Research, researcher at the Centre for Integrative At the CRG, the funded project is led Antoni Castellà, and the director of the Genomics (www.unil.ch/cig) in the Uni- by Luis Serrano and entitled “Synthet- Science and Environment department of versity of Lausanne. < ic RANKL variants: New therapeutic the Fundació “la Caixa”, Enric Banda. < 2 | Live @ CRG INSIDE BAKE SALE Incubakers” with the support of a Joao Curado number of friends and colleagues. The BEN LEHNER proceeds will be donated to a different AWARDED From March on, a not-to-be-missed charity every month. The March col- THE NATIONAL event is being held on the 5th floor ter- lection went to The Flying Classroom RESEARCH AWARD race. The CRG is hosting a fundrais- (www.theflyingclassroom.com), that FOR YOUNG ing bake sale every second Tuesday of from April to Intermon Oxfam Trailwalk- TALENT each month. It is organised by “The er (http://trailwalker.intermonoxfam.org) and in May it is destined for El Casal Ben Lehner received the National del Raval. Research Award for Young Talent from the President of the Catalan Hope to see you on May 14 on the 5th Government, Artur Mas. The Ca- floor terrace and, remember that you talan Foundation for Research and can join in by baking, donating, help- Innovation (FCRI) and the Gov- ing with logistics, suggesting a charity, ernment of Catalonia present this or sharing ideas and suggestions. Please award in recognition of young sci- The organizers and some “customers” during contact [email protected] or joao. entists with outstanding research ca- the first Bake Sale. [email protected] for more information. < reers and the quality and excellence of their work. CRG ORGANISATIONAL SHAKE UP David Ordaz Following the Scientific Advisory Board recommendations and the Executive Com- mittee resolutions, the CRG now has 4 research programmes: Bioinformatics and Ge- nomics; Cell and Developmental Biology; Gene Regulation, Stem Cells and Cancer; and Systems Biology. In addition, certain organisational modifications were made in the management area, adopted to offer better service by keeping in mind the new scientific organisation and introducing the recommendations from the recent external audit. The new scientific and management structure can be accessed easily through the or- ganisation charts on the CRG website www.crg.eu. < CRG researcher Ben Lehner and Artur Mas, President of the Catalan Goverment during the award ceremony A QUICK DIP IN THE SEA, THE NEW PhD TRADITION The ceremony was held at the Na- Bernhard Paetzold tional Theatre of Catalonia and was attended by several celebrities After 10 years with no great graduation ritual, as there exists in other institutes all over and representatives of Catalan sci- Europe, the PhD community felt it was time to establish a CRG graduation tradition. ence and industry. The President The doctoral students were asked to vote for their favourite ceremony and 47.9% affirmed that Catalonia has excel- opted for a quick “dip in the sea”. lent research centres, talent and infrastructures. He also explained Alejandro Burga, from Ben Lehner’s lab, was the first to enjoy the new “dip in the sea” that despite it being a small country tradition. Alejandro was taken down to the beach by his group leader and fellow students (just 0.1% of the global population), and “helped” into the water. This is exactly where he needed to be after so many years Catalonia has risen from producing working hard in the lab. Salva Capella and Judith Wodke have already followed in his foot- 0.4% to 1% of the world’s scientific steps and had a short swim despite the wintery weather. So, from now on… after every output in just a few years”. < thesis defence, drag your fellow students down to the beach and throw them in the sea. < Live @ CRG | 3 SCIENCE CELL THE ROLE OF ENZYME TET2 IN BLOOD CELL REPROGRAMMING FORMATION AND CANCER DEVELOPMENT TO CURE LEUKAEMIA AND LYMPHOMA In a study published in Molecular Cell, CRG researchers describe the way the enzyme TET2, might act in the gene regulation of myeloid leukemia.
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