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Launch of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases
En savoir plusA new European initiative will build a collaborative platform for data and sample sharing, to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases. The European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) integrates existing initiatives to build, grow, and deliver a scalable and self-sustainable platform for storage and analysis of high-quality clinical samples and data collections. The University…
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BY-COVID: A new EU project for pandemic preparedness
En savoir plusBeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), a new €12 million Horizon Europe funded project, was recently launched. It will tackle the data challenges that can hinder effective pandemic response. The core aim of the project is to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone. ELIXIR Luxembourg and the Bioinformatics Core of the LCSB will participate…
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International Metaproteomics Symposium – A fast-growing field
En savoir plusAt the end of September, researchers from the Systems Ecology group at the LCSB organised the fourth International Metaproteomics Symposium at the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg. This 3-day event was the occasion to bring together an international community using high-resolution molecular approaches to study microbiomes, and more particularly metaproteomics, in a wide range of research fields.…
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Visit of the Prime Minister to meet researchers working on COVID-19
En savoir plusOn 5 October, on Campus Belval, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel along with Minister for Higher Education and Research Claude Meisch met with researchers from the different institutions involved in the Research Luxembourg COVID-19 Taskforce to discuss actions carried out during the pandemic, important milestones of the collaboration between the government and scientists, as well as ongoing research projects.
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Un partenariat fructueux avec RBC
En savoir plusLa Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) apporte son soutien au Scienteens Lab pour le développement de son programme en informatique. Grâce à ce partenariat, un nouvel atelier baptisé « Art et intelligence artificielle » sera ouvert à la réservation dès octobre 2021.
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Launch of ZeroPM, a new European project focusing on water pollution
En savoir plusPersistent, mobile (PM) substances are being recognised as serious threats to the safety of water resources. In many cases, drinking water supplies have to be purified using expensive technologies because of contamination by PM substances. The most famous examples of PM substances are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) but there are numerous others. This worldwide…
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Combining sequencing approaches and omics to characterise microbiomes
En savoir plusDNA contains the blueprint for life, be it for mammals, plants or microorganisms. Thanks to current technologies, DNA can be extracted from virtually any environment, including mixed communities of microorganisms like a microbiome, and then sequenced. Sequencing produces what could be described as small copies of different parts of the blueprint. A software is then used to reconstruct the original…
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European experts address the COVID-19 pandemic
En savoir plusHow should Europe deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the future? Which strategies should be pursued and what specific risks should be considered? To answer these questions, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation brought together more than two dozen experts from all over Europe – including Prof. Rudi Balling, director of…
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New miniature organ to understand human pancreas development
En savoir plusThe pancreas is a little organ behind the stomach and has two main functions – digestion and blood sugar regulation. How the human pancreas develops has been relatively unexplored for ethical and practical reasons. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for…
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PhD Graduation Ceremony 2020
En savoir plusIn the academic year 2019/2020, more than 1600 students graduated from the University of Luxembourg, including 129 doctoral candidates. The university traditionally confers the diplomas and celebrates the success of its graduates at the Graduation Week in December. Considering the ongoing health crisis, the event was postponed to spring 2021. On 12 May, a smaller, livestreamed event took place to congratulate the graduates and wish them all the best…