/en en Sun, 04 May 2025 09:54:42 +0200 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:16:00 +0200 /en/news/call-for-participants-public-engagement-academy-2025 Apply now for the Public Engagement Academy: a training programme specifically targeted at postdocs and other early-career researchers at the Faculty of Science. 148686 Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:16:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/study-reveals-how-plants-grow-thicker-not-just-taller Using a computer model that reveals how plants grow thicker over time, biologists have uncovered how cells are activated to produce wood tissue. Understanding the fundamentals behind this growth, they hope to advance forestry practices and CO₂ storage in trees. 144672 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/review-10th-utrecht-bioinformatics-center-annual-symposium Celebrating its tenth annual symposium, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) welcomed over 200 participants. The symposium offered a chance to look back on a decade of progress in bioinformatics and explore what lies ahead. 144075 Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:27:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/genetic-insights-shed-light-on-how-and-where-bacteria-form-brightly-coloured-colonies-without The findings might have implications for the development of new innovative materials that use bacteria to replace non-sustainable dyes. 141855 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/bioinformatics-industry-day-a-new-platform-to-explore-future-careers Over 170 bioinformatics students, researchers, and company representatives gathered for the Bioinformatics Industry Day, organized by the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC). 140963 Fri, 31 May 2024 08:46:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/science-professors-visit-elementary-schools Along with 104 other Professors from Utrecht University, computational biologist Kirsten ten Tusscher and experimental physicist Raimond Snellings visited elementary schools today. 138864 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:19:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/even-in-their-own-environment-specialist-microbes-are-dominated-by-generalists Researchers developed a new method to distinguish generalist and specialist microbes and applied it to a large, global dataset. 129261 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/computer-simulations-visualize-how-stem-cell-protein-opens-wrapped-dna A key protein for converting adult stem cells back into a state that resembles embryonic stem cells has been visualized in unprecedented detail by an international team of researchers. 123514 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:11:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/new-banana-disease-is-spreading-fast-and-poses-a-threat-to-africas-food-security A new banana fungus is spreading rapidly across the world and now also in Africa, genetic research shows. 123509 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:34:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/toxin-degrading-bacteria-griftpark-mapped Microbiologists from Utrecht University have identified the bacteria that can biologically clean up the groundwater in the Griftpark in Utrecht. 120333 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:33:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/4-million-euro-grant-for-predicting-and-improving-soil-biodiversity-0 A €4 million grant has been awarded to a new research programme that uses artificial intelligence to better predict soil life in fields and meadows, thereby producing more sustainable food. 120527 Tue, 31 May 2022 13:46:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/4-million-euro-grant-for-predicting-and-improving-soil-biodiversity A €4 million grant has been awarded to a new research programme that uses artificial intelligence to better predict soil life in fields and meadows, thereby producing more sustainable food. 117385 Tue, 31 May 2022 13:46:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/plant-pathogen-evades-immune-system-by-targeting-the-microbiome A fungus responsible for crop losses appears to evade the plant’s immune system by targeting its microbiome. This discovery may lead to new approaches to curtail the fungus and protect crops. 112181 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:16:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/making-sense-of-the-cell-using-computer-power Bas van Breukelen is one of the founders of Utrecht Bioinformatics Center and the popular Master’s programme Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity. What was the key to its success? 110332 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/computer-model-of-root-growth-could-lead-to-more-eco-friendly-cultivation The way plant roots grow turns out to be surprisingly well described by a new computer model. The model could help to cultivate crops that require less fertilisation, pesticides, and watering. 108960 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:18:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/human-microbiome-could-shed-light-on-higher-morbidity-rate-in-minoritized-populations A new study is the first to explicitly address the gut microbiome as a pathway to understanding how environmental inequities could lead to health disparities. 107459 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:59:00 +0200 Nieuws /en/news/Scientists-present-vision-for-todays-challenges Joint perspective on how these sectors can contribute to solving urgent scientific and societal issues 102586 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:48:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/new-protocol-for-modeling-membrane-associated-protein-assemblies The Utrecht computational structural biology group has developed a new protocol for the modeling of membrane-associated protein assemblies. 102468 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:37:00 +0100 Nieuws /en/news/timeline-of-early-eukaryotic-evolution Publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution: Utrecht Bioinformaticians have reconstructed the evolutionary events leading to the creation of eukaryotic cells 100777 Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:04:00 +0200 Nieuws Eukaryotic cell /en/news/how-plants-vascular-cells-turn-into-holes Theoretical biologists have solved a unique puzzle in the structure of plants’ vascular tissue. They can now explain how two different mutations with opposite effects lead to the same result. 97213 Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0200 Nieuws