UBC expertise: Molecular Medicine
Bioinformaticians are quite popular, laughs Jeroen during our meeting in the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht, where he started work on 1 May. He is referring to the prominent place that the analysts of large datasets currently have in a wide range of research projects. This means that bioinformatics is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. Life Scientists […]
Two CSC scholars join the UBC community
In October two Chinese bioinformaticians, Bohui Lui and Weiyang Tao, will start work as PhD candidates in the UBC community. They will do their research in the Radstake group at UMC Utrecht and the Heck group at Utrecht University. The UBC facilitated a serious selection procedure by inviting the candidates to Utrecht for several days. The candidates were interviewed […]
Sara Pulit receives BioSB Young Investigator Award 2016
Sara Pulit (UMC Utrecht) is the winner of the BioSB Young Investigator Award 2016. She received the prize of € 500 at the annual Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference. Chair of the Award Committee, Berend Snel: “Sara’s PhD dissertation was exceptional. It contains eleven chapters, including a number of first authorships in nature genetics and other top journals. […]
HPC facility: kickoff event
The High Performance Computing facility aims to provide high-performance computing power to all Life Scientists at Utrecht Science Park. Funding for new developments Recent funding and commitments by Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht made it possible to enlarge the HPC facility, enabling the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center to offer a computational infrastructure to all Life Scientists at […]
UBC vision on Education
Whether you know it or not, as a Life Science researcher, bioinformatics is always a part of your work, from simple tasks like creating nice plots to writing complex scripts for data analysis. At the UBC, we believe that developing your bioinformatics knowledge and skills will significantly improve your research. To that end, UBC teaches […]