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 […]
Hanneke van Deutekom new head of bioinformatics at Genome Diagnostics in UMC Utrecht
After a PhD and a postdoc position in the bioinformatics field, I left science to work for a company that makes products for in vitro diagnostic use. At this company I was able to use my (bioinformatics) knowledge, but also to learn about managing a team and software products. Here, I got a good insight […]
New Master’s programme Bioinformatics & Biocomplexity
The Graduate School of Life Sciences offers a new Master’s programme: Bioinformatics & Biocomplexity (BiBC).