UBC coordinator: Adrien Melquiond
Adrien is a senior postdoc in the group of Computational Structural Biology, headed by Prof. Alexandre Bonvin. As an insider in the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center, he is the perfect fit to become the coordinator of the focus area Integrative Bioinformatics for Life Sciences and Sustainability. What sort of work do you do? “As a researcher, I […]
UBC symposium: 5th edition
With an exciting, full day program centered around Big data in the Life Sciences, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center celebrated its’ fifth anniversary with fellow bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Relevance of bioinformatics The day was initiated by Berend Snel, chair of the UBC, Gerrit van Meer, former dean of the Faculty of Science and Isabel Arends, […]
Students’ opinions about the Bioinformatics Master’s profile
The Bioinformatics profile introduces life science students into techniques and algorithms that are used in bioinformatics. Students learn more advanced bioinformatics skills by doing an internship in UBC research groups. What are the experiences of our first graduates? Most of the Master’s profile students want to learn how to analyse and leverage the results of […]
5th anniversary: UBC is relevant and important
We celebrated the metaphoric birthday of the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center with our 5th UBC symposium. During the symposium bioinformatic research in life sciences was displayed from medical sciences to evolution of ancient protein complexes. In scientific perspective, we want to highlight the excellent talks by young PhD candidates who showcased how different clever computational approaches […]
UBC expertise – Computational Immunology
Dr. Aridaman Pandit is a Computational Immunologist, and an expert in a unique interdisciplinary field combining knowledge of immunology, mathematical modeling and bioinformatics. This is how Aridaman Pandit became an expert in his field of interest: “In short, this is my story. I finished my Bachelor’s in Biotechnology, showed the world how HIV continuously evolves, […]