Breaking Science: four UBC participants on 20 March
Four UBC members participate in the Breaking Science competition and have a shot at winning 1500,00. Come and support them while pitching their bioinformatics research on Monday 20 March in Café Hoffmann (Janskerkhof, Utrecht). What is Breaking Science? Increasingly, researchers are asked to explain their research in a (very) short timeframe and to an audience […]
Netherlands eScience Center grants two projects to UBC scientists
This year, the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) awarded two out of five ASDI projects to scientists from the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. The proposals submitted by Jeroen de Ridder and Alexandre Bonvin will each receive € 500,000; 50% in direct funding and 50% in in-kind funding in the form of support from eScience research engineers. Googling […]
Virtual reality meets proteins
Marijne Schijns wins poster award at Science for Life conference
Marijne Schijns (Utrecht University) is the winner of the public poster award for students at the Science for Life Conference 2016. The jury, 257 of the 400 congress attendants, indicated Marijne’s presentation about Protein-protein binding affinity prediction applied to the docking problem, as the best Students’ presentation. Marijne receives a voucher for attending a congress or summer school of her own […]
ECCB 2016: 15th European Conference on Computational Biology
UBC community members played a major role in the 15th European Conference on Computational Biology. Two of seven key note speakers were from UBC Utrecht and the main computational biology event in 2016 had it’s poster prize sponsored by UBC. About 1.200 experts in bioinformatics, biology, computational biology, medicine and systems biology met in The Hague […]