Glue Projects

The aim of the Glue Projects is to strengthen interactions between NISB groups with complementary expertise. Glue Projects fit in the very heart of the NISB Research Programme and combine model-driven wet research with data-driven dry research.
NISB will fund three Glue Projects (2008-2012) from a total budget of € 525K. Each Glue Project will be executed by a PhD-student (4 year appointment) or a PostDoc (about 3 year appointment; financially neutral with a PhD-appointment).

The Standard Operational Procedure (SOP), detailing all the necessary application information for this call, is downloadable from here: SOP-NISBGlueProjects2008.

A total of eight applications were reviewed by three independent referees. Based on these referee reports, three applications were clearly and unanimously rated as the best applications. The NISB Board decided to award these three top-ranking applications on the following topics:

1. Systems biology of the synapse: from the synaptic interactome to a mathematical model for synaptic plasticity.
2. Transcriptional traffic jams: control of stochastic transcriptional bursts by transcription initiation or pausing RNA polymerases?
3. The gene-regulatory potential of epigenetics: detailed analysis with a synthetic epigenetic gene network.

An overview of the awarded NISB Glue Projects 2008 is downloadable from here: NISB_GlueProjects2008.

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