Vidi grant for Daniel Tamarit

One of this year’s Vidi grants has been awarded to UBC member Daniel Tamarit for his project Blueprints of the Third Domain. The Vidi grants are awarded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Daniel investigates how archaeal genomes evolved at the dawn of eukaryogenesis, using phylogenomics and large-scale evolutionary genomics to uncover the origins of complex life. […]

Berend Snel and Laura Villanueva on VPRO Tegenlicht

Watch our fellow UBC members Berend Snel and Laura Villanueva discuss their research in a new episode of Tegenlicht, produced by the Dutch public broadcasting network VPRO. The documentary explores one of evolution’s most remarkable questions: how complex life first arose on Earth. Through their insights, the episode uncovers the ancient fusion event that enabled […]