We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jingyuan Fu has been appointed an associate professor per February 2015. We offer her our warm congratulations. On behalf of the Management Team Prof. Cisca Wijmenga, Head of department More about Jingyuan Fu and about her work

Read an interview with Cisca Wijmenga about some of her work. She “is fascinated by the study of coeliac disease; here, she discusses her close connection to the history of the field, the changes brought about by new sequencing methods and the importance of collaboration”. Read about:   Navigating the non-coding regions of the genome  –  Genome of the Netherlands   —  Non-coding RNA  –  Coeliac disease the facts  –  Genetic risk profiling The project “Coeliac disease: from lincRNAs to disease mechanism (CD-Link)”  is supported by an ERC Advanced Investigator grant. By Josh Gabbatiss. Published courtesy of International Innovation – a leading scientific dissemination service. Link to full

May 2014: NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) has awarded VIDI grants to Jingyuan Fu for her project on “Understanding the causal relationships between the host genome, microbiota and lipids” and to Lude Franke for his project on “A novel approach to understanding how DNA variants cause disease”. (1) Understanding the causal relationships between the host genome, microbiota and lipids - Dr. Jingyuan Fu Lipid composition varies widely between human individuals and is associated with many diseases. Numerous studies have shown that the lipid composition can be affected by an individual’s genetic make-up and intestinal microbial composition. Over millions of years, microbes and humans have formed a truly symbiotic relationship.

On 11 January 2014, there was an article in the Dutch national newspaper ‘NRC’ about Lude Franke’s bioinformatics work at UMCG (request pdf, in Dutch). And on 14 January, the UMCG magazine ‘Kennis in Zicht’ had a piece about Jingyuan Fu’s work (here, in Dutch).

PhD thesis by Naishi Li in Dr Jingyuan Fu’s group. University of Groningen, Dec. 2013, abstract and full text available here