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
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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 -
New Master’s programme Bioinformatics & Biocomplexity
The Graduate School of Life Sciences offers a new Master’s programme: Bioinformatics & Biocomplexity (BiBC)....
24 September, 2019 -
UBC expertise: Fungal Genomics
“Knowledge about Bioinformatics is vital to unravel the large data sets we work with in our field of Fungal Genomics."...
22 August, 2019 -
Nature Microbiology: global collaboration of scientists uncovers human microbiome virus in one-third of all countries
We are all the same, yet we are all different. New research from bioinformatician Bas Dutilh at Utrecht University has shown how a family of...
15 July, 2019 -
PNAS publication UBC members: System that controls cell division resembles a mosaic
The protein complex that the cells of animals, plants, and fungi use to control cell division was created long ago from at least 40 differen...
18 June, 2019 -
National e-learning platform for Bioinformatics
The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center and BioSB join forces to develop and offer interesting bioinformatics and systems biology courses online....
15 April, 2019
