Master’s profile Bioinformatics starting September 2016
The UBC presents a new Master’s profile on Bioinformatics in the programme of the Graduate School of Life Sciences. The profile consists of several vital courses on bioinformatics and an essential six month internship. Both Master students and PhD-candidates can enroll the Bioinformatics profile. Essential skills The Profile provides participants with essential bioinformatics skills such […]
UBC expertise: Molecular Medicine
Bioinformaticians are quite popular, laughs Jeroen during our meeting in the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, where he started work on 1 May. He is referring to the prominent place that the analysts of large datasets currently have in a wide range of research projects. This means that bioinformatics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. Life Scientists […]
Two CSC scholars join the UBC community
In October two Chinese bioinformaticians, Bohui Lui and Weiyang Tao, will start work as PhD candidates in the UBC community. They will do their research in the Radstake group at UMC Utrecht and the Heck group at Utrecht University. The UBC facilitated a serious selection procedure by inviting the candidates to Utrecht for several days. The candidates were interviewed […]
Sara Pulit receives BioSB Young Investigator Award 2016
Sara Pulit (UMC Utrecht) is the winner of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2016. She received the prize of € 500 at the annual Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference. Chair of the Award Committee, Berend Snel: “Sara’s PhD dissertation was exceptional. It contains eleven chapters, including a number of first authorships in nature genetics and other top journals. […]
HPC facility: kickoff event
The High Performance Computing facility aims to provide high-performance computing power to all Life Scientists at Utrecht Science Park. Funding for new developments Recent funding and commitments by Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht made it possible to enlarge the HPC facility, enabling the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center to offer a computational infrastructure to all Life Scientists at […]