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).
UBC expertise: Fungal Genomics
“Knowledge about Bioinformatics is vital to unravel the large data sets we work with in our field of Fungal Genomics.”
Nature Microbiology: global collaboration of scientists uncovers human microbiome virus in one-third of all countries
We are all the same, yet we are all different. New research from bioinformatician Bas Dutilh at Utrecht University has shown how a family of tiny viruses lives the guts of humans around the world, yet changes depending on which country we are from. In a global collaboration with more than 100 scientists drawn from […]