Excited to share our Focused review on the multi-scale mechanisms underlying root regeneration! Now online in The Plant Journal !! Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU UU_Plants 🌱✂️⚡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

🔊Symposium: Bioinformatics in Food Science. 🖥️🧀🌱🦠🧬 Join us at the Wageningen campus, NL, in November 2024. 📝Please complete this early registration form to help us plan the event (just 1 minute): forms.gle/LJhF8aXyh5g4zH… Repost to help spread the word!

The established methods were not sufficient, so we chose the cutting-edge, and since they were not fully realized yet, we expanded on them. Pangenomics discover secrets behind the rapid evolution of spinach downy mildew. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genomic

Science For Life Café Utrecht University, with Aldert Zomer and Michael F Seidl presenting outstanding work on Pangenome studies to understand the emergence of pathogenesis Faculty of Science, Utrecht University Bioinformatics

Please share! We are recruiting a PhD student to join us in the CropXR consortium to research the evolution of stress response networks in plants. More information, and application link, here: uu.nl/en/organisatio…

We finally put it together! The first ICTV Taxonomy Challenge provides a dataset of thousands of contigs from diverse viruses, asking bioinformaticians to classify them in an automated, reproducible way. European Virus Bioinformatics Center Phage Directory

Always a very special day to receive the final product of a PhD trajectory. Congratulations xin really looking forward to your defense! Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Westerdijk Institute

It is my great pleasure to host Michael Seidl Michael F Seidl from Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU for our Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen seminar series! Beautiful plant pathogen genomics from primary sequence analysis to the 3D organisation of the genome 🤩🧬

Asgardarchaeum abyssi helps validate the Asgardarchaeota phylum name in accordance with the SeqCode. We hope this brings stability to archaeal taxonomy by preserving this taxon name used in 500+ papers! And indeed, more on this theme soon!

Congrats Fabai Wu Lab and all main authors! Glad to have been able to participate on this interesting project. Make sure to read Fabai's thread for a nice summary of the main findings! 👇

Kick-off of the symposium to celebrate the PhD defense of xin Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Westerdijk Institute looking forward to reflect on her work of the last four years

Glad to have been part of this tremendous effort by Stephan Köstlbacher Jolien van Hooff Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 & others! Read Stephan's thread to find out how he used protein structural predictions to discover 'isomorphic' eukaryotic signature proteins beyond what sequence similarity searches can find! 👇

De functie van de kleuren bij bacteriën: beste-id.nl/nieuws/de-func… Bas E. Dutilh Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Utrecht University

Once more, it seems the #archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes was more complex than previously thought! 😀 (reminds me of the unicellular ancestor of animals). In this occasion, it is the use of de novo protein structure modeling & sensitive sequence similarity algorithms that helped

Join us in this exciting workshop on the evolutionary history and diversity of plant stemness 🌱🌳🌾🫚 With amazing speakers and venue, apply by November 15 for a funded early-career place! For more information: biologists.com/workshops/may-… Renske Vroomans Kirsten ten Tusscher The Company of Biologists

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: nature.com/articles/s4158…

To learn about the latest views, disputes and future research directions on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, read our review in nature here: nature.com/articles/s4158… Non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/dTFrR

An unbroken thread links us to the first cells. But understanding our ancestry still requires studying the most impactful and mysterious evolutionary transition: the origin of the eukaryotic cell Here we summarise current views in light of the latest advances. Exciting times!