€5,7 million towards future-proof lettuce varieties
The LettuceKnow project, led by Utrecht University Professor Guido van den Ackerveken, has attracted a 4 million euro Perspectief grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Six major seed-breeding companies have topped up this sum with an additional 1.7 million euros to ensure the project’s viability. Thanks to the work done in the […]
Transforming HPC Research with AI Approaches
To investigate the enhancement of traditional HPC simulations, SURFsara selected four scientific use cases spanning very different scientific domains. Prof. Alexandre Bonvin decided to work with SURFsara as they bring domain-specific expertise in choosing the right AI tools and approach along with the ability to help specify and train the proper neural network to assist […]
UBC coordinator: Adrien Melquiond
Adrien is a senior postdoc in the group of Computational Structural Biology, headed by Prof. Alexandre Bonvin. As an insider in the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center, he is the perfect fit to become the coordinator of the focus area Integrative Bioinformatics for Life Sciences and Sustainability. What sort of work do you do? “As a researcher, I […]
UBC symposium: 5th edition
With an exciting, full day program centered around Big data in the Life Sciences, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center celebrated its’ fifth anniversary with fellow bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Relevance of bioinformatics The day was initiated by Berend Snel, chair of the UBC, Gerrit van Meer, former dean of the Faculty of Science and Isabel Arends, […]
Students’ opinions about the Bioinformatics Master’s profile
The Bioinformatics profile introduces life science students into techniques and algorithms that are used in bioinformatics. Students learn more advanced bioinformatics skills by doing an internship in UBC research groups. What are the experiences of our first graduates? Most of the Master’s profile students want to learn how to analyse and leverage the results of […]