Dean’s Commendation for UBC
This month’s Commendation from the Dean goes to the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC). The Dean commended the cooperation by Berend Snel, Patrick Kemmeren (UMC Utrecht) and Bas van Breukelen with the Scientific Advisory Board and everyone who supports the UBC. Gerrit van Meer expressed his gratitude for all of their efforts on behalf of the […]
Cell-paper: Family tree of blood and immune cells has more branches than previously thought
The creation of blood cells and the cells involved in our body’s immune reaction is more complicated than scientists have assumed until now. The stem cells for all blood and immune cells differentiate into five different types of precursor cells, instead of the two that scientists have identified. That is the result of research conducted […]
Berend Snel in NRC-next: nextcheckt
“Men genetically are more like a male monkey then a woman”, is that really true? Bio-informatician Berend Snel checks this. Read the article in Dutch.
BioExcel center of excellence H2020 project started
Ten European partners, including our group, have recently been awarded funding to establish a Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research through the a project funded by the EC H2020 program, EINFRA-5-2015 (contract number 675728). The project, BioExcel, involves researchers from the KTH Department of Theoretical Physics (Sweden), from Utrecht University (Netherlands), the Institute for Research in […]
Mini symposium in honour of inauguration of Berend Snel
On October 9, Berend Snel will give his inaugural lecture as newly appointed professor in Bioinformatics at Utrecht University. For this occasion, a symposium will be held prior to this inaugural lecture. More details on the program are listed below. If you are interested in attending this symposium (free entrance), please send an email to […]