Marjon will contribute to the event organized by the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health on 22 January 2024.

The Fundamental Science for Health and Environment FSE Hub related to the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health was recently approved by the faculty board.

The aim of the hub is to connect research and education within FSE and the wider university in the field of health and the living environment.

Scheduled relevant events:

7 September 2023 – Networking event on antimicrobial resistance

More information and registration:

https://www.rug.nl/aletta/calendar/amr-the-silent-pandemic-a-groninger-network-meeting

2 November 2023 – Planetary Health Dive – for researchers and societal stakeholders involved in topics related to Planetary Health, such as; Education, Biodiversity, Eco anxiety, Agriculture, Marine life, Water, One Health – including (non) infectious diseases.

More information and registration:

https://www.rug.nl/aletta/calendar/aletta-dive-planetary-health

Save the date 16 October 2023 – Microbiome day

More information will follow

Organisation

Coordination:

Marjon de Vos – Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences

Steering committee:

Marleen Kamperman – Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials

Gert-Jan Euverink – Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen

Frans Bianchi – Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute

Ulrike Dusek – Energy and Sustainability Institute

Talitha Feenstra – Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy

Marieke van Vugt – Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Adri Minnaard – Stratingh Institute for Chemistry

Marjon hosted the Disparities in Healthcare interactive session on the Discover the World of Health Technology HTRIC yearly event.

The session was organized by HTRIC Deborah Bozato, speakers were Sieta de Vries (UMCG), Inge Holtman (UMCG) and Wolter Paans (Hanze).

Marjon and Misshelle joined the Aletta Jacobs Meet-Up on Solidarity in Health organized by AJSPH.

Marjon chaired a session on Solidarity with the future generations, with speakers Nadine Voelkner, Valentina Gallo and Thom Geertsema.

An impression of the event can be viewed here.

We are happy to be able to start our interdisciplinary project on eco-evolutionary interactions in recurrent urinary tract infections. We will soon share application information for 4 PhD positions, and 3 postdoc positions. All fully funded.

Partners involved:

Main applicant:

Dr. M.G.J. (Marjon) de Vos (GELIFES, FSE, RUG)

Co-applicants:

Prof. J.H.H.M. (Janneke) van de Wijgert

University Medical Center Utrecht / Utrecht University, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care

Dr. J.J.J. (Justin)van der Hooft

Wageningen University, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science

Dr. M.H. (Marnix)Medema

Wageningen University, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Plant Science

Prof. C.R. (Celia) Berkers

Utrecht University, Dept. Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. M.F. (Michael) Seidl

Utrecht University, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science

Dr. J.M. (Jerry) Wells

Wageningen University, Host-Microbe Interactomics group, Department of Animal Sciences

Prof. R.S. (Rampal) Etienne

University of Groningen, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences

Other consortium members:

Prof. S.E. (Suzanne) Geerlings

Amsterdam University Medical Center, Dept. Internal Medicine, Div. Infectious diseases

Prof. C. (Constance) Schultsz

Amsterdam University Medical Center, Dept. Global Health

Prof. A.J. (Alan) Wolfe

Loyola University, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL,

USA

Prof. B.E. (Bas) Dutilh

Institute of Biodiversity, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”,

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

More information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/twenty-one-innovative-research-projects-launched-through-open-competition-domain-science-xl

Iron regulates contrasting toxicity of uropathogenic Eschericia coli in macrophages and epithelial cells. Led by Deepti Dabral, van den Bogaart lab. Happy to have played a small role in it.

Together with Chrats Melkonian, Michael Seidl and Justin van der Hooft, we wrote a Trends in Microbiology Spotlight on the manuscript by Yu, Correio-Melo, et al. on the role of metabolic interactions in microbial communities.

Last week Marjon has received the L’Oréal Unesco For Women in Science Fellowship.

The Women in Science Fellowships and rising talents awards are organized by the NIAS-KNAW, KHMW and LNVH, and sponsored by Unesco and L’Oréal.

I feel honored and grateful for this opportunity, and to be in the great company of the other awardees.

A clip on my research, and a short movie of the festive celebration.

On 28 June we organize the NLSEB meeting to host all Evolutionary Biology research in the Netherlands.

Abstract deadline 2 May 2022. See link for more information & registration.

Organizing committee: Sijmen Schoustra, Koen Verhoeven, Jeroen Meijer, Marjon de Vos