Open Science NL Grant for Duong Vu
UBC member Duong Vu has been awarded funding from Open Science NL, together with co-applicants Jos Houbraken and Wieland Meyer. Their project will build an open, central hub connecting fungal collections and datasets from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute with international resources. By integrating morphology, genomics, ecology and more, the platform will support fungal identification, AI-driven research, […]
NWO ENW-XS grant for Vivek Bhardwaj
UBC member Vivek Bhardwaj has received an NWO Open Competition ENW-XS grant to pursue bold, innovative research on identifying and studying the rarest cells in the human body using microfluidics and genomics. These fast-track grants support breakthrough ideas with up to €50,000 in funding. Read more about the nine UU and UMC researchers awarded this grant here
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 […]
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 […]