This UBC newsletter finds you in unprecedented circumstances, with Covid-19 impacting our daily lives, research, teaching and the UBC as a community. We, of course, hope that you are all healthy and doing well given the circumstances. We are extremely proud and thankful to our...
With the current Covid-19 measures it is hard to estimate with how many students we will actually start, but we have high hopes that we can start this September with about 15 to 20 students. Work is in progress developing the obligatory masters course(s) in final...
Anna-Lena Lamprecht is an assistant professor in Software Technology at Utrecht University, within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. She describes herself as a Research Software Engineering (RSE) academic, focusing on software development processes in research, and developing methods and technology to improve them....
Utrecht biologists are awarded a prize by the prestigious American National Academy of Sciences. They will receive the Cozzarelli Prize for their publication in PNAS in 2019, in which they unravel the evolutionary history of a central protein complex in cell division. That was announced by PNAS on March 10. The Cozzarelli...
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. By exposing cultured human mini-guts to a particular strain of Escherichia coli bacteria, they uncovered that...