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Dear UBC,
Just as bioinformatics continues to evolve rapidly, the UBC is to optimize its operations to best serve the Utrecht bioinformatics community. We also do this to fulfil our role as one of the core groups of the Data Science and Cohorts community within the Strategic Theme Life Sciences at UU. One significant update is that we are changing the organization of our advisory board.
Since the earliest days of the UBC, our Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) advised and reflected on our activities, providing valuable input and help on specific topics. In order to further strengthen the connections with bioinformatics research at different institutes, we decided to transform the SAB into a Stakeholder Committee.
We will meet the Stakeholder Committee members in an ad hoc fashion to ask for comments and advice on the activities of the UBC, as well as how to strengthen the connections between the UBC and their institutes. Most SAB members will continue their work in the Stakeholder Committee. With a broader representation, the Stakeholder Committee will undoubtedly keep on promoting awareness of the UBC at different institutes and stimulate others to join our community.
We’re also happy to share with you that the UBC Annual Symposium is approaching. Set to take place on 11 October 2023, we are currently finalizing the symposium’s program. More information about the symposium will be shared soon. We are looking forward to seeing you there, and wish you a great summer!
UBC Executive Board |
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Peter Luijten welcomes UBC members to Strategic Theme
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| Recently, the UBC joined forces with the Strategic Theme Life Science. UBC members can benefit greatly from the Strategic Theme's network, says vice-dean Peter Luijten in an interview on the UBC website. "Being part of the Strategic Theme makes it easier to gain access to life science initiatives on our campus. For example, it is much easier to join large research projects", says Lujten. |
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Meet UBC Board member Jayne Hehir-Kwa |
| UBC's previous Executive Board recently stepped down and handed over its duties to a new group of UBC members. One of the new Board members is Jayne Hehir-Kwa, associate group leader at the Princess Máxima Center. Using a combination of bioinformatics and systems biology, her team develops new techniques for analysing cancer genomics data. Read more about her research and how bioinformatics plays a key role. |
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€3.1m grant for pediatric cancer research |
| UBC member Patrick Kemmeren and his team receive a €3.1 million Euro grant to build a data collection of more than 4,000 childhood cancer genomes. The grant is provided by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant allows Kemmeren's team to collect large-scale data on the DNA abnormalities, gene activity and clinical data of children with cancer. This enables future research into new DNA abnormalities, that could ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer. |
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Netherlands Evolutionary Biology Prize for Julian Vosseberg |
The Netherlands Evolutionary Biology Prize has been awarded to Juilian Vosseberg, PhD candidate in the Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics group at Utrecht University. The prize is awarded annually by the Netherlands Society for Evolutionary Biology (NSEB) for the best peer-reviewed paper. Vosseberg's winning paper The paper describes the results of a sophisticated and robust bioinformatic analysis of genomic data of duplicated genes, to shed new light on genomic events that took place during the transition from prokaryotes to eukaryotes.
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Recent publications by UBC members |
Evolutionary origins and interactomes of human, young microproteins and small peptides translated from short open reading frames
Molecular Cell, Volume 83, Issue 6, 16 March 2023
Sebastiaan van Heesch's group
First Experiments with an Applied Gaming Intervention for reducing Loneliness of Children with Chronic Illness: Lessons Learned
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, April 2023
Remco Veltkamp's group
CAF-1 deposits newly synthesized histones during DNA replication using distinct mechanisms on the leading and lagging strands Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 51, Issue 8, 8 May 2023
Richard Scheltema's group
Improving the quality of co-evolution intermolecular contact prediction with DisVis
Proteins, 26 May 2023 Alexandre Bonvin's group
Cell type-specific transcriptomics reveals that root hairs and endodermal barriers play important roles in beneficial plant-rhizobacterium-interactions
Molecular Plant, 5 June 2023 Ronnie de Jonge's group |
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UBC Seminar with Sanne Abeln |
| Sanne Abeln, recently appointed as Professor of AI Technology for Life, will discuss her recent bioinformatics-related work at the UBC Seminar. The main emphasis is on a novel computation tool called CIBRA, to detect genomic alterations with a system-wide impact. CIBRA is an essential new tool to identify the impact of genomic alterations by combining multi-omics data types. The seminar will be organized in Utrecht University's Minnaert Building on 3 July 2023. |
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Save the date: UBC Annual Symposium |
Serving as the scientific rialto of Utrecht's wide-ranging bioinformatics community, the UBC Annual Symposium is the place to meet fellow UBC members and keep in touch with their research. This year's edition will be organised on 11 October 2023. The schedule of the day is still under construction. We will keep you updated on further develops surrounding the symposium.
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Looking back on BioSB2023 |
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