ESR Farhad Chariyev-Prinz making science easy
https://youtu.be/eGrJUqu1MC4 CarBon ESR Farhad Chariyev-Prinz explains his work on investigating the impact of mechanical cues on cartilage cell behaviour.
March 2020
January 2020
ESR Soraia Silva’s secondment at LifeTec (NL): first step for an interesting collaboration!
During the past November, Soraia packed and moved into Lifetec labs for a long secondment with Dr Linda Kock and ESR Martina Puricelli. Lifetec and RVC share a common interest in the CarBon project: loading. Being interested in the osteochondral loading platform, Soraia tested the system using known inhibitors of growth and modulators of mTOR [...]
December 2019
Joint training in Maastricht for ESR 10 Raphaëlle and ESR 13 Mauricio – learning in good company
October 2019 Let’s meet half way! Why an Uruguayan PhD-student, working in Rotterdam, and a French PhD-student, working in Leuven, decide to meet in Maastricht? Everything started from a collaboration between two CarBon ESRs: Mauricio Ferrao Blanco and Raphaëlle Lesage. To go further in our in silico – in vitro collaborative study we had to [...]
November 2019
ESR Claudio Intini enjoying The Netherlands
ESR 5 Claudio Intini, currently ESR at SurgaColl (Ireland), performed a long secondment period at EMC (The Netherlands). He had the oppotunity to fully experience all aspects of a new contry. Here his short story: "As part of my project, I recently performed a 4-month secondment from 1st of June to 20th of September at [...]
August 2019
Symposium on CarBon at EORS 2019
The European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS) will have its annual conference in Maastricht from October 3 until October 5, 2019. On October 3 Dr. Eric Farrell (EMC), CarBon PI, will lead a symposium (symposium n. 15) on Osteoarthritis & Cartilage and in particular on Controlling Cartilage to Bone transitions for improved treatment of bone defects [...]
July 2019
CarBon consortium members meet in Frankfurt
On July 3 and 4, 2019 CarBon PIs and ESRs met in the sunny Frankfurt for two intense days or meeting, hosted by Goethe University of Franfurt - represented by PI Prof. Frank Zaucke. All ESRs presented their progresses and attended a very interesting training on communication to lay public, organised by ReumaNederland. The project [...]
June 2019
Enrique and Kathrin working together in Frankfurt
Last April ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre went for a week to Frankfurt, hosted by the Dr. Rolf Schwiete Research Unit for Osteoarthritis, Orthopaedic University Hospital Friedrichsheim, Frankfurt, Germany. He worked with Kathrin Maly (ESR 3) on histochemical analysis from mice: immunohistochemistry and optimisation of a new coimmunofluorescence staining. They also tested different novel [...]
May 2019
Enrique receives the Pauline van Wachum Award at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology Annual Meeting
On May 17, 2019 CarBon ESR 6 Enrique Andres Sastre received the Pauline van Wachum Award at the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology Annual Meeting. The title of the his presentation was "Thrombospondins -4 and -5 on endochondral ossification". Congratulations to Enrique!
Raphaelle from Leuven to Cologne
ESR 10 Raphaelle Lesage works at KULeuven and she recently did a secondment at UKK in Cologne. Here below she tells us about this experience, inside and ouside the lab. The purpose of this short secondment was to report my advances and get feedbacks on the (pre)processing of microarray data for the purpose of integration [...]
CarBon symposium at EORS2019
Gerjo van Osch and Eric Farrell (Erasmus MC) are organizing a CarBon symposium at the EORS (European Orthopaedic Research Society) meeting that will be held in Maastricht, NL from 2-5 October (https://eors2019.org/). For the symposium ther are two distinguished invited speakers: Roberta Tasso (USMI) and Franck Zaucke (GU). In the symposium 4 talks will be [...]