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Fran Supek has been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant
Institutional - ERC Starting Grants support young talented researchers over 5 years
Europe gives a boost to Supek’s research in cancer genomics
Drosophila polytene chromosome. In yellow, the chromocenter region where heterochromatin is accumulated. Image: Jordi Bernués, IRB Barcelona.
Scientific - Published in Nature Communications
Histone 1, the guardian of genome stability
Image representing the effects of the circadian clock in ageing (Author: Iris Joval Granollers)
Scientific - The two studies are published in Cell
Ageing is exacerbated by alterations of stem cell circadian rhythm
Eduard Batlle, head of the Colorectal Cancer laboratory at IRB Barcelona
Institutional
Exploring new frontiers in colorectal cancer research
Fran Supek is the first author of the study published today in Cell. Supek developed this work while he was working with Ben Lehner at CRG (Photo: M Minocri, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Cell
Errors made by 'DNA spellchecker’ revealed as important cause of cancer
3D structure of the protein relaxase bound to a DNA fragment. The histidine residue that performs the DNA nicking, is shown in blue (bottom right) (Radoslaw Pluta, IRB Barcelon
Scientific - Published in PNAS
Researchers identify the component that allows a lethal type of bacteria to spread resistance to antibiotics
Gonzalo Fernández-Miranda, Project Leader and associate researcher with the Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation Lab. Image: CaixaImpulse.
Innovation
CaixaImpulse funds an IRB Barcelona immunotherapy project for head and neck cancers
The experiments have been carried out using Xenopus laevis oocytes, an animal model used by the laboratory to study fundamental processes involved in gene regulation. Image: microscopy, Eulàlia Belloc.
Scientific - Published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Towards a deeper understanding of genome regulation
Cross sections of wild type or TLK2 deficient embryos stained for the proliferative marker Ki67. Embryos lacking TLK2 (left) appear morphologically normal but developmentally delayed. (S. Segura-Bayona, IRB Barcelona)
Scientific - Published in Cell Death and Differentiation (Nature)
Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a crucial gene involved in the development of the placenta

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