UBC communicy in Covid-19 times – introduction newsletter May 2020
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 community which, right from the start of this whole crisis, […]
New Master’s programme Bioinformatics and BioComplexity
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 details. We will start with an essentials course, covering […]
Classification of ancient evolutionary connections between viruses made possible with new taxonomy
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has announced a fundamental change to the way viruses are systematically classified. The new taxonomy system allows scientists to classify viruses in a hierarchical structure similar to that used for cellular organisms, like animals, bacteria and plants. The ICTV describes their decision and its implications in a […]
Anna-Lena’s expertise: Software Technology
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. UBC asks Anna-Lena about her work in bioinformatics . Bioinformatician […]
Wandering in the virosphere
The detailed knowledge we have of a small number of viruses conceals the fact that we know nothing or hardly anything about the vast majority of them. More genetic research is needed to map the origin and evolution of viruses Thorough exploration of the viral world has barely begun, says Bas Dutilh in the interview […]