ERC Consolidator Grants for Ruben van Boxtel and Bas Dutilh
The European Research Council has awarded the latest ERC Consolidator Grants; two of them will go to research related to Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. An ERC Consolidator Grant is worth two million euros and will enable a research group to do five years of research. How do bacteriophages and bacteria interact? Bas Dutilh explains what he […]
UBC expertise: Clinical Infectiology
Dr Aldert Zomer is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University. His personal interest within the research expertise Clinical Infectiology focuses on zoonotic pathogenic bacteria and drug resistance. The bioinformatic methods he uses and develops are quite suitable for any microbiology field. Zomer believes that antimicrobial resistance will become a particularly […]
Predicting metabolites based on bacterial genes
A novel computer model uses microorganisms’ DNA to determine the metabolites used and produced by the bacteria in different parts of the human body.