NWO Vici-grant for Berend Snel
Berend Snel, Professor of Bioinformatics at Utrecht University, has been awarded a Vici grant of 1.5 million Euros. Prof. Snel aims to use the Vici grant to determine whether there is a system behind the phenomenon of similar genes fulfilling different functions in different organisms. This will eventually make it possible to make better predictions […]
BioSB PhD retreat – 18 April 2016
All PhD-candidates, young researchers and students in the fields of computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology and related fields are most welcome to attend the annual retreat. Keynotes will be given by Fiona Nielsen, founder and CEO of Repositive and Jonathan Karr, Fellow at the Institute for Genomics & Mul!tiscale Biology at the Mount Sinai School of […]
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.