Advanced Bioinformatics best Master’s course
The Utrecht University Graduate School of Life Sciences awarded ‘Advanced Bioinformatics: data mining and integration for Life Sciences’ the best Master’s course of the academic year 2018-2019. The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is very proud of the teaching team who realised this course: Joep de Ligt, Pjotr Prins and Mark Wilkinson. Blended learning Course coordinator […]
A very successful 6th UBC symposium
On 7 October the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center symposium took place for the sixth time. The program reflected the breadth of bioinformatics within life sciences, and showed diversity of research carried out in the different computational groups at Utrecht Science Park. Keynotes and Principal Investigators Our keynotes prof.dr.ir Thijs Ettema and dr Sara Pulit presented their innovative […]
Brush-up your research data management skills!
For the first time, a research data management-focussed workshop series consisting of four separate sessions will be held in autumn and winter 2019. Data Management Planning – 19 September [expired] Documentation Writing and Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) – 24 October Data Archiving and Data Publishing – 7 November FAIR data and SPARQling Genomics – 19 December This […]
BioSB2020: Keynotes & draft program
The UBC board is excited to organise next year’s BioSB2020 conference, which will include three excellent keynote speakers. The conference will start with an opening keynote by Erik van Nimwegen, who is a Professor of Computational Biology at the University of Basel and uses mathematical models and experimental approaches to study the function and evolution […]
Intro UBC newsletter October 2019
While preparing the third newsletter of 2019 we were both excited and grieved. The news that Ben Hesper passed away in July saddened us. We mourn this loss, and we wish to express our condolences to all he inspired. Besides the personal loss, Ben’s passing also engenders mixed feelings in preparing the events for the […]