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 […]
Overview UBC Seminars 2015
In 2015 we revived the UBC seminars and to shake your memory here is the overview of all the great seminars we have had.
A new round of seminars will commence on January 11th. We hope to see you all there again!