Ribosome Dynamics – Joana Silva
Transcription Regulation – Hanneke Vlaming
Recent publications by UBC members

Below, you can find an overview of publications by UBC principal investigators during the period from September 2025 –December 2025. Metabolic engineering reveals the relative importance of different sugar catabolic pathways during consumption of plant biomass by Aspergillus niger, Current Research in Microbial Sciences, Volume 9, 2025 Tania Chroumpi et al. (With Ronald de Vries) A […]
Real-Time view of DNA repair

Tuncay Baubec and Richard Cardoso da Silva have developed a fluorescent probe that lets researchers watch DNA damage and repair unfold in real time inside living cells and even in whole organisms. The tool offers a much clearer view of how cells maintain their genomes and enables experiments that were not possible before. Their paper was recently […]
BioBeyond_NL consortium secures grant

The research consortium BioBeyond_NL has secured 17 million euros from NWO’s National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, with over half of the funding going to Utrecht. BioBeyond_NL, led by prof. Ron Heeren from Maastricht University, is a collaboration between Maastricht University, Utrecht University, Leiden University Medical center and Radboud Medical Center. The consortium will develop cutting-edge infrastructure to study how sugars […]