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...
Core Life Analytics is a spin-off based on research that Wienand Omta and David Egan carried out at UMC Utrecht, which was part of a collaboration between Cell Biology at the UMC Utrecht and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University. What’s their story? They developed innovative, web-based,...
Prof. Alexandre Bonvin participates in the BioExcel-2 project, which is a continuation of the successful BioExcel Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research that was launched in 2015 with support from the European Research Council. The group of Bonvin (Utrecht University) is internationally renowned for...
PhD candidate Ilja Gubins started working on a research project on the classification of bio-molecular complexes using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET). Innovative computational methods are an integral part of the research approach. As Ilja says: “Machine learning has revolutionized every industry, starting from automation of manual labour...
A novel computer model uses microorganisms’ DNA to determine the metabolites used and produced by the bacteria in different parts of the human body....