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See the list of former
members of
the lab
Past events in chronological order :
2011
- Last September 24-29, Bruno attended the EMBO
conference "Dynamic endosomes:
mechanisms controlling endocytosis" in Chania, Greece (Creta).
- Last
August 16-20, Bruno And Myriam attended the
"Yeast Cell Biology"
meeting organized by the Cold Spring Harbor Lab (near New-York, USA), where
Bruno presented a talk about the Bul adaptors of the Rsp5 ubiquitin ligase and
their role in Gap1 permease ubiquitylation.
- Last June 19-24, Kassem Ghaddar
attended the
Gordon
conference "Mechanisms of membrane transport" near Boston (USA), where he
presented a poster.
- A new paper combining bioinformatics and
experimental analyses, conducted in collaboration with Sylvain
Brohée and Jacques van Helden, has just been accepted for
publication in Nucleic Acids Research - see the
PubMed link
-
A pregraduate student of the university of
Namur (FUNDP), Julie Candiracci, joined our lab for a traning work.
- One of our pregraduate student, Mayri Sadoine, joined the lab
of Wolf
Frommer (Carnegie Institute, Stanford) for a training work
(stage) as part of her master. And Oriane Blanchard joined the lab
of Nica
Borgese in the Institute of Neuroscience (Milan, Italy).
- A new postdoc, Myriam Crapeau, joined our lab in March. Myriam
received her PhD after a nice work on Ure3, a yeast prion.
- One of our pregraduate student, Mayri Sadoine, joined the lab
of Wolf
Frommer (Carnegie Institute, Stanford) for a training work
(stage) as part of her master. And Oriane Blanchard joined the lab
of Nica
Borgese in the Institute of Neuroscience (Milan, Italy).
- On May 20th, after the "PhD students day", all members
of the institute moved to the Parentville park for an all-together barbecue.
Kassem, who presented the progress of his PhD work, was encouraged by his
committee.
- April: One of our pregraduate student, Mayri Sadoine, joined the
lab of Wolf Frommer (Carnegie Institute, Stanford) for a training work (stage)
as part of her master.
- A new postdoc, Myriam Crapeau, joined our lab in March. Myriam
received her PhD after a nice work on Ure3, a yeast prion.
- March : Nicolas Gérard took a new
direction in his carreer and decided to become a teacher in biology at secondary
school. We wish him the best.
- March: a new postdoc, Myriam Crapeau, joined our
lab. Myriam received her PhD after a nice work on Ure3, a yeast
prion.
- February : A pregraduate student of the university of Namur (FUNDP),
Julie Candiracci, joined our lab for a traning work.
- January: Fadi
Abdel-Sater left the lab, we wish him the very best for the future.
2010
- For our traditional Christmas party, we organized a nice lunch together
with the members of Birthe Fahrenkrog's lab.
- On
November 9th, Nicolas Gérard successfully defended his PhD project before the
FRIA conveyed jury and was even ranked first of the day. Nicolas's work will
concentrate on the endosomal sorting of yeast Gap1 permease. Congratulations to
him !
- On October 20th, our friend and colleague
Stephan Vissers retired, after no less than 44 years of research
work at the ULB. We of course celebrated this event. On October
20th, the Faculty organized a tribute. On October 26th, all the lab went to Brussels
where we visited the Cantillon brewery, probably the last
traditional brewery in Brussels. We then went to a restaurant where
other special surprises had been prepared for Stephan by the lab
members.We then went to the "Grand Place" of Brussels for a
drink. See
pictures of this
special day.
A few days later, we had a party in the lab where many former
colleagues and members of the lab were invited. Although Stephan has officially retired, he'll still come
at the lab every Monday.
- On October 5th, Kevin Wielemans
successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations, Kevin, and thanks a
lot for your contribution and input. All lab members and Kevin's
family enjoyed all together a very nice dinner at restaurant.
- A new project entitled "Structural, biochemical and
physiological analysis of amino acid transporters and sensors" has
been supported for funding by the "Actions de recherche concertée"
(French Community of Belgium). This project will be conduected in
collaboration with our colleagues Erik Goormaghtigh, Cédric Govaerts
and Martine Prévost (lab of "Structure et
Fonction des Membranes Biologiques", ULB). Good
news indeed ...
- In October, Bruno attended and contributed to a workshop organized in
Prague, the "Patchy Prague meeting",
about membrane domains in yeast and plant cells.
- Last September, Bruno attended and contributed to the "SYM
2010" meeting in Fribourg (September 6-7, 2010)
- Last September, several
lab members attended the "Levures,
modèles et Outils IX" meeting organized in Strasbourg. Ahmad Merhi was among
the invited speakers and gave a very nice presentation.
- Three
new pregraduate students, Mayru Sadoine, Oriane Blanchard and Maxime Steisel,
joined the lab. Welcome to all three !
- Last August, Kassem attended the "Membrane
transport Proteins" Gordon conference (Biddeford, USA - August 15-20, 2010)
- Last
June, Bruno attended the "Endocytosis
and lysosomes" Gordon conference (Andover, Boston, USA - June 20-25, 2010).
- Last May, Stephan, Stephan, and Fadi attended the "Yeasterday
2010 meeting" in Leuven (May 21th).
- Last May, Bruno and Ahmad attended
a "Rubicon" sponsored international workshop about "Role
of various types of ubiquitin chains in membrane trafficking" organized by
Rosine Hauguenauer-Tsapis and coll. (Paris, May 21, 2010)
- On May 17th, after the "PhD students day", all members
of the institute moved to the Parentville park for an all-together barbecue.
- Bruno and Fadi attended the "Proteases
and protease inhibitors" meeting organized by the Belgian
- On April 1rst, Bruno Gasnier (CNRS,
Paris) visited our lab and gave a superb seminar in our institute.
Society of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology in Antwerpen (February 5th).
- Nicolas Gérard successfully defended his pre-graduate work about the
systematic mutagenesis of Gap1 cytosolic regions. Congratulations to him !
2009
- For our Christmas party, we went to a
restaurant in Charleroi (Brasserie de l'Eden) where we have attended
a
jazz concert by the Thierry Crommen Quartet - see
pictures
- On
November 12th, we had the great pleasure to welcome
Claudio De
Virgilio who gave a very nice seminar in our institute.
- The juries of the FRIA attributing
fellowships to PhD students evaluated the research proposal of
Kassem Ghaddar and the 2-years reports of Ahmad Merhi and Elisa
Llinares. All three were successful and … ranked first of their
respective commissions ! Congratulations ! and welcome to Kassem -
our new PhD student - who will accomplish part of his project in
collaboration with Dr. Martine Prévost.
- On October 1-2, we celebrated the
10th
anniversary of our institute. ten years already ...
- On
September 15th, Nicolas Gérard joined the lab to accomplish
his pregraduate thesis work. Welcome to him.
- Bruno, Elsa, Ahmad and Elisa have attended the "27th smyte meeting"
last September in
Blanckenberg (Belgium). See
pictures. At this
meeting, Elisa was invited to give a talk and .. she
won the price of the "student best presentation" !
Congratulations Elisa ... for this 250 € price !
- During August, Benjamin Delatte joined the
lab for a student job. Benjamin once met Bill Clinton - he said. We
didn't believe him until he sent us this
picture. - On June 22th, Cathy Jean successfullly defended her PhD
entitled "The amino acid signalling pathway in yeast: role of the
SCFGrr1 ubiquitin ligase complex and inlfuence of the
Gap1 permease. Congratulations !!
- Bruno has attended
the last
Yeast Genetics and
Molecular Biology Meeting (YGMB) in Manchester, July 19-24.
He was invited to give a talk at a worshop about "Protein trafficking". The
topics of his talk was the role of K63 ubiquitin chains in sorting of proteins
in the multivesicular body pathway.
- On
April 1rst, Kassem GHADDAR brilliantly defended his pregraduate
thesis work. The week after, he left the lab to spend a three months
research training in the lab of
Pierre COURTOY (UCL).
- Ahmad and Elisa successfully presented their preliminary thesis work at
the "PhD students day" organized each year in our institute.
- Christophe Jacob visited us on April 29th to celebrate the
publication of our last paper in J Cell Biol - see
pictures
- Bruno, Elsa and Fadi attended a fantastic meeting entitled "The
ubiquitin family" gathering about 200 experts of the field, Cold Spring Harbor (NY, USA),
April 21 - 25. See pictures
-
Anna Marie Marini has now set up her own lab (Lab. of
Membrane Transport Biology) in our institute. Congratulations to her and all the
best !
- The decision is now taken: Birthe Fahrenkrog will join our institute next
October and we'll share the same floor in the institute. Welcome to her and her
team.
- On January 5th, we had the great pleasure to welcome Birgit Singer-Kruger
who gave a very nice seminar in our institute. We had a lot of scientific
discussions and shared good time, also in a nice restaurant at the Grand Place
of Brussels (of course ..).
-
Catherine Jauniaux, our main technician, celebrated the 20th year of work in the
lab. We organized a cheese-and-wine party and remembered a lot of souvenirs
2008
-
For our traditional celebration of Christmas, we had a nice party all
together in the lab - see pictures
- Bruno attended a meeting entitled "Nutrient
sensing in plants: what can we learn from model organisms?"
, gathering 30 experts of the field and organized by the Banbury
Center, Cold Spring Harbor (NY, USA).
- Ahmad, Bruno and Elsa participated to the "The
2008 Golgi meeting - Membrane trafficking in global cellular responses"
where Elsa presented a poster on the role of ubiquitin and Gga proteins in traffic of Gap1 permease.
- Elsa and Bruno have attended a meeting on "ESCRTs
- from cell biology to pathogenesis" (26-28 August, Cambridge, UK) where
Elsa was invited to give a presentation entitled "K63-linked polyubiquitylation
of the yeast Gap1 permease is required for its sorting into the multivesicular
body pathway".
- Ahmad, Elisa and Kevin have attended the last "Yeast
Genetics and Molecular Biology meeting" (July 22-27, Toronto, Canada). Kevin
presented a poster on the amino-acid signalling pathway in yeast.
-
Elsa and Bruno have attended the last Gordon conference on "Glycolipid
& Sphingolipid Biology" (17-22 February, Barga, Italy) where Elsa was
invited to give a presentation entitled "An essential role of
sphingolipids in shaping the yeast Gap1 permease during its biogenesis".
See pictures of the nice
meeting place.
2007
-
For our traditional celebration of Christmas, we decided this year to spend
one day in Bruges, the "Venise du Nord" - see
pictures
-
Both Elisa Llinares and Ahmad Merhi were ranked first by the FRIA juries
which examined their research projet. They thus joined the lab to accomplish a
PhD work: welcome and good luck !
- Bruno gave a seminar entitled "Rôle de l'ubiquitine et des lipides dans le
trafic intracellulaire du transporteur membranaire Gap1 de la levure" at the
IRIBHM of ULB on November 12th, 2007.
-
Mélanie (October 4th) and Elsa (October
24th) publicly presented their PhD work. Both presentations were superb
and the afterwards parties in two nice restaurants were great ! The
foreign expert for Mélanie was Dr. Dominique Loque working on ammonium
transporters in Wolf Fommer's lab (Stanford, USA), and for Elsa, Pr.
Howard Riezman (univ. Geneva, Switzerland), very well known for his work
on the role of ubiquitin and lipids in protein traffic. See pictures of
the drink and restaurant parties.
- September 7th: Elisa Llinares superbly presented her pregraduate lab work
and was ranked nr.1 of her year class: congratulations, Elisa !
- Bruno gave a seminar entitled "Amino acid signalling in yeast :
central role of transporters" in the Hohenheim University of
Stuttgart on June 12th, 2007 (invited by
Nico Von Wiren)
- All lab members attended the "Yeasterday
2007" meeting organized in Louvain-la-Neuve on May 1rst, 2007. Mélanie gave
a talk about her recent work published in Molecular Microbiology.
-
May 2007: Fadi Abdel-Sater, a former graduate student of the lab, joined the
lab for a post-doc. So great to see him back among us !!
- Bruno gave a seminar entitled "Roles of lipids and ubiquitin in membrane
trafficking of yeast amino acid transporters" in the Goethe University of
Frankfurt on May 8th, 2007 (invited by
Eckhard Boles)
- Bruno and Elsa have attended "The
Ubiquitin Family" meeting in Cold Spring Harbor (April 25-27, 2007) where
Elsa was invited to give a presentation. See
pictures of the meeting (including
one of Jim Watson who was there !) and of NYC.
- Elisa Llinares, a pregraduate student, joined our lab to perform a research
work on membrane trafficking. Welcome to her!
2006
-
We had a nice Christmas party in the lab - at the menu, a wonderful
paella prepared by Cathy after
an equally excellent fish plate prepared by Elsa
-
Kevin Wielemans, a new graduate
student, joined the lab to prepare a PhD. Welcome to him !
- Most members of the lab attended the last "Levures, modèles et outils"
meeting in Paris, September 27-29. See the
programme (including talks
presented by Elsa and Mélanie) and see some
pictures.
- Bruno and Stephan have attended the "Yeast Genome 10th anniversary"
meeting held in Brussels, September 7-8. See the
programme and
nice pictures.
- Bruno, Elsa, Cathy and Sylvain attended the last "Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and
Energetics" in Prague, August 31-September 3rd. See the
programme and
nice pictures.
- Bruno attended the last FASEB biannual conference on "Ubiquitin and
Cellular Regulation" in Saxtons River (Vermont, USA), July 22-27. See the terrific
programme and some
pictures of Saxtons
River
- Patrice Godard (July 4th 2006) presented the public
dissertation for his PhD degree.
He then enjoyed some holidays in Turkey (see
picture).
- Anna Maria was invited to participate to the "International Conference on Rh protein superfamily"
in Paris (May 04-05, 2006)
- Bruno was invited to participate to the
2006
Cologne Spring Meeting on "The control of protein function" in
Cologne (March 01-03, 2006)
- Our friend and colleague
Antonio Urrestarazu retired in March 2006 after
so many years of essential contribution to the scientific
achievements of the lab. He has now moved back to Spain, close to his
family.
We had
a memorable party on February 24th in a Spanish restaurant in
Brussels to honor him. Thanks so much, Antonio, for everything and so more ...
Thanks so much, Antonio, for everything and so more ...
2005
- Fadi Abdel-Sater
(Jan 14th 2005) and Elina Nikko (Feb 18th 2005) presented their public
dissertation for their PhD degree.
- We have attended the Keystone conference
"Ubiquitin and signaling" Taos New Mexico (USA), February 22 - 27,
2005 (see our abstracts)
- The visit of The
King of Belgium, Albert II, of our Institute and our laboratory. A great
moment (4th May 2005).
- The one-day meeting organized at Bruno's home at the occasion of the
visit of Wolf Frommer (Carnegie Institute, Stanford) (June 2005)
- Our Christmas party
2004
- Our participation to the "2004 YGMB
meeting" (Seattle, USA, July 27-August 01, 2004)
- The last "Associoport" project meeting (Sorrento, October 2004)
- Our one-day trip to Barcelona
(December 2004)
2003
- Our participation to the "2003 YGMB meeting" (Goteborg, Sweden,
July 07-12, 2003)
- Our Christmas party
2002
- Our participation to the
"2002 YGMB meeting (Madison, USA, July 30-August
04, 2002)
- Our Christmas party
2001
- Our participation to the "Yeast Cell Biology meeting"
(Cold Spring Harbor, August 2001)
- Our participation to the "2001 YGMB
meeting" (Prague, August 26-31, 2001)
2000
- Our discovery of the function
of human Rhesus proteins (with press releases)
- Our Christmas party
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