Message from the Executive Committee

Vice-dean of the Strategic Theme Life Sciences welcomes UBC members

2023 has brought some changes for the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. Apart from having a new daily board, the UBC is now embedded in the Strategic Theme Life Sciences. Although the process of embedding may not have been apparent to all UBC members, joining the Strategic Theme promises to create broad range of opportunities, says vice-dean […]
Meet UBC Executive Committee member Jayne Hehir-Kwa

How can bioinformatics help understand childhood cancer? Childhood cancer is different to adult cancer. While adult cancer is often influenced by environmental factors, these factors play less a role in childhood cancer. Instead, childhood cancer can be considered a collection of individually rare developmental disorders. Bioinformatics is important not only for analysing the genomic data, […]
In-person UBC Seminar (16:00Jul3)@MIN 2.01, UU. “Identifying the system wide impact of genomic alterations”

On Monday, July 3 at 16:00, Prof. dr. Sanne Abeln from AI Technology for Life, UU will share her most recent bioinformatics related research. Just come without registration. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about how bioinformaticians and computer scientists can work together and to catch up with other UBCers with drinks! Identifying […]
UBC Webinar(16:00Jun5) “Our archaeal origins: Inference and reconstruction of the Asgard archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes”

On Monday, June 5 at 16:00, Dr. Daniel Tamarit from TTB, UU will share his most recent bioinformatics related research. Our archaeal origins: Inference and reconstruction of the Asgard archaeal ancestors of eukaryotes The origin of eukaryotes is one of the most mysterious major transitions in evolution. This process was essential to the gain […]