Recent publications by UBC members
Below, you can find an overview of publications by UBC principal investigators during the period from September 2025 –December 2025. Metabolic engineering reveals the relative importance of different sugar catabolic pathways during consumption of plant biomass by Aspergillus niger, Current Research in Microbial Sciences, Volume 9, 2025 Tania Chroumpi et al. (With Ronald de Vries) A roadmap […]
Real-Time view of DNA repair
Tuncay Baubec and Richard Cardoso da Silva have developed a fluorescent probe that lets researchers watch DNA damage and repair unfold in real time inside living cells and even in whole organisms. The tool offers a much clearer view of how cells maintain their genomes and enables experiments that were not possible before. Their paper was recently […]
BioBeyond_NL consortium secures grant
The research consortium BioBeyond_NL has secured 17 million euros from NWO’s National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, with over half of the funding going to Utrecht. BioBeyond_NL, led by prof. Ron Heeren from Maastricht University, is a collaboration between Maastricht University, Utrecht University, Leiden University Medical center and Radboud Medical Center. The consortium will develop cutting-edge infrastructure to study how sugars […]
Review of the UBC Annual Symposium 2025: Bioinformatics in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the field of bioinformatics, and this development took centre stage at the 11th UBC Annual Symposium. The event brought together a vibrant community of researchers, students, and other professionals to meet and deepen our understanding of bioinformatics. The symposium, held on 7 November 2025 at the Princess Máxima Center, explored […]
NTR Focus episode: Superplant
In a recent NTR Focus episode titled Superplant NPEC biologists explain how harnessing the plant-microbiome can make our crops more resilient. The show is produced by the Dutch public broadcaster NTR, Dutch-spoken and without English subtitles.