Wandering in the virosphere
The detailed knowledge we have of a small number of viruses conceals the fact that we know nothing or hardly anything about the vast majorit...
30 March, 2020
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NWO grant for Computational Structural Biology at Utrecht
NWO-ENW decided to give a computing grant of 4 Million CPU hours per year for two years to WeNMR which allows to maximise the impact of the ...
19 March, 2020 -
Utrecht biologists win prestigious Cozzarelli prize
Utrecht biologists are awarded a prize by the prestigious American National Academy of Sciences. They will receive the Cozzarelli Prize for ...
13 March, 2020 -
A common gut microbe secretes a carcinogen
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institu...
13 March, 2020 -
Bioinformatics activities for a broad audience
By itself, the number of revolutions around the sun does not intrinsically call for anything special. Yet, we decided to seize the opportuni...
27 January, 2020 -
50 years Bioinformatics: Biology of the future?
Bioinformatics is now a mature and thriving research field, indispensable in addressing life science research challenges....
23 January, 2020 -
ERC Consolidator Grants for Ruben van Boxtel and Bas Dutilh
The European Research Council has awarded the latest ERC Consolidator Grants; two of them will go to research related to Utrecht Bioinformat...
11 December, 2019 -
Million euros for research on disease-resistant spinach
Utrecht plant scientists and bioinformaticians will receive almost 1 million euros for a research project on downy mildew, the most importan...
08 November, 2019 -
Presence of the fungus Fusarium Tropical Race 4 in Colombia confirmed
DNA-sequencing and pathogenicity tests confirmed that the Colombian isolates belong to what has been previously defined as the Fusarium odor...
18 October, 2019 -
Advanced Bioinformatics best Master’s course
The Utrecht University Graduate School of Life Sciences awarded ‘Advanced Bioinformatics: data mining and integration for Life Science...
15 October, 2019 -
A very successful 6th UBC symposium
On 7 October the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center symposium took place for the sixth time. The program reflected the breadth of bioinformatics ...
11 October, 2019 -
Brush-up your research data management skills!
For the first time, a research data management-focussed workshop series consisting of four separate sessions will be held in autumn and wint...
10 October, 2019 -
BioSB2020: Keynotes & draft program
The UBC board is excited to organise next year’s BioSB2020 conference, which will include three excellent keynote speakers. The confer...
10 October, 2019 -
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 ...
10 October, 2019 -
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 diagno...
04 October, 2019
