Today we received a message from Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. that our manuscript on the analysis of COVID-19 patient samples was accepted for publication.

It is again a nice work that would not have been established without the help of our colleagues from Spain and Sweden, thanks all for your efforts and most of all congrats to Joram and Femke.

Today we received confirmation that Joram’s first major manuscript, on the involvement of NETs in COVID-19 was accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Many thanks to our collaborators from Sweden and Spain! It was quite a difficult ride to have the manuscript, at this times of the pandemic, published. Nonetheless, it’s there now!

Today Johana defended her thesis and did so extremely well! We are very proud of her, given the difficult circumstances (Corona, online-defense, no family or friends around…). We will most certainly ceise the opportunity to celebrate this major event when this will be possible again.

Today 6 new interns started their internship:
Jonathan, Famke, Diego and Wouter will do a bachelor internship, while Lisa will start her Master internship.
Elisa, working with Ingrid will join our meetings as well as her topic will be crossing the border between peptide-synthesis and structure-bioinformatics.

Welcome and learn as much as you can, despite the measures we have to adhere to due to the Corona pandemic!

Today the paper that Song and Tom wrote on the structure-function relationships of PAD4 was accepted for publication in JTH, congratulations both! Nice piece of work!

Today we learned that Songs manuscript, on the autocitrullination of PAD4 was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Congrats Song!

Today we heard about the acceptance of the paper written by Kanin on the design of the histone H4 and H2a peptides. A very nice piece of work, which has set the stage for more work on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs).
Congrats Kanin!

After having spent more than 4 years in our lab, Song is today leaving for her home country China. With nearly all thesis chapters in place, we expect a PhD defence somewhere in spring 2021.
We are sorry we could not have a proper farewell party due to the COVID19 restrictions, but nonetheless are looking forward to seeing her again, and wish her all the best!

Today we heard that a manuscript that was sent to the high ranking journal Circulation was accepted. In particular Kanin should be recommended to this, as he did a lot of effort to make the design of a novel histone inhibitor happen!