Cell News 2/2015
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CONTENT
Preface
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Minutes of the DGZ Member Meeting 2015
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Prize Winners 2015
Nikon Young Scientist Award of the DGZ 2015
Kai Kretzschmar: Remodelling adult skin by epidermal
β
-catenin activation
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Binder Innovation Prize 2015
Holger Bastians: Altered microtubule dynamics triggers chromosomal
instability and aneuploidy in human cancer cells
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Werner Risau Prize 2015
Ayal Ben-Zvi: Mfsd2a is critical for the formation and function
of the blood–brain barrier
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Research News
Anand Ramani, Li Ming Gooi and Jay Gopalakrishnan: Building the meat
of pericentriolar material surrounding the skeleton of a centriole
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Future Meetings
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Symposium Physics of Cancer, September 7-9, 2015 in Leipzig
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Summer School and Experimental Course: Tissue as active matter –
Quantitative approaches in developmental biology”
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abcd2015 – The Biennal Congress of the Italian Association
of Cell Biology and Differentiation
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Impressum
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Missing Members
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Executive Board
President:
Ralph Gräf (Potsdam)
Vice President:
Carien Niessen (Köln)
Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Oliver Gruss (Heidelberg)
Vice CEO:
Klemens Rottner (Braunschweig)
Advisory Board
M. Cristina Cardoso (Darmstadt)
Thomas Dresselhaus (Regensburg)
Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried)
Volker Gerke (Münster)
Harald Herrmann-Lerdon
(Heidelberg)
Ingrid Hoffmann (Heidelberg)
Eugen Kerkhoff (Regensburg)
Thomas Magin (Leipzig)
Zeynep Ökten (München)
Britta Qualmann (Jena)
Doris Wedlich (Karlsruhe)
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Cover image:
Genetic lineage tracing of BLIMP1-positive cells and their progeny (labelled in green with
green fluorescent protein, GFP) in a whole-mount preparation of adult mouse tail epidermis. Differentia-
ted sebocytes are labelled in red and polymerised actin is labelled in blue. While GFP-tracings are found
in the hair follicle, the image shows no GFP-positive cells in the sebaceous gland. This suggested that
BLIMP1 is not a marker of sebaceous gland progenitors under steady state conditions.
Adapted from Kretzschmar, K., Cottle, D.L., Donati, G., Chiang, M.F., Quist, S.R., Gollnick, H.P., Natsuga,
K., Lin, K.I., and Watt, F.M. (2014). BLIMP1 is required for postnatal epidermal homeostasis but does not
define a sebaceous gland progenitor under steady-state conditions. Stem Cell Reports 3, 620-633.
