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🌱 We're hiring! Join our team as a PhD candidate to explore plant–microbiota host specificity. Plant biology/microbiology background needed; bioinformatics skills a big plus💻! Apply by mid-June. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #uubeta #plantmicrobiome #microbiota
PhD Position on Decoding Plant Microbiota–Host Specificity Using AI
Join us to generate data and build AI-driven models to decode plant–microbiota host specificity!
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May 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Gizem Soğancıoğlu will defend her #PhD thesis on #fair and #explainable #MachineLearning on May, 15th. She is the 2nd graduate of the Social and Affective Computing group.

If you are in #Utrecht, join us:

www.uu.nl/en/events/ph...

#UUBeta
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
#HeysemKaya
PhD defence: Towards Fair and Explainable Machine Learning Modeling in Mental Health
PhD defence of G. Sogancioglu (Faculty of Science / Social and Affective Computing)
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May 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Many thanks to
@TheBoonsGroup @UU_Glycoscience @UUBeta, and if you do not have access, please check the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors
H5Nx viruses continue to wreak havoc in avian and mammalian species worldwide. The virus distinguishes itself by the ability to replicate to high titers and transmit efficiently in a wide variety of h...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
📽️ YouTube video out now 📽️

Go to our page and watch the great seminar on "Probing compact objects with gravitational waves from binary inspirals "by Tanja Hinderer from @UUBeta.

#physics #science #blackhole #gravitationalwave #gravity

youtu.be/UCX1CwcCknU
January 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yesterday, our dear colleague Saskia van Wees delivered her inaugural address, 'Plants are anything but defenceless creatures'. A fascinating exploration of plant resilience, hormones and innovation. 🌱 Read more: www.uu.nl/en/news/inau... #Science #uubeta #UtrechtUniversity #Plants
Inaugural lecture by Saskia van Wees: "Plants are anything but defenceless creatures"
Saskia van Wees investigates the intricacies of plant resistance and the role plant hormones play in these processes. Today, she delivers her inaugural lecture.
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November 29, 2024 at 6:09 PM
We welcome Petros @pskiadas @UUBeta today for a seminar. Check his quote from age 16!
May 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Excited to share the last chapter of
#XinZhang's PhD thesis on the evolution of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters in the fungal genus Aspergillus biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@binfutrecht.bsky.social #UUBeta
#WesterdijkBiodiversity
February 26, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Happy to see our most recent work on genome evolution of Fusarium isolates infecting banana published in
@NewPhyt nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Congratulations especially to #AvWesterhoven
and to all involved colleagues
@binfutrecht.bsky.social #UUBeta #WURplant
#PhytoWUR @keygene.com
February 26, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Grading Advanced Graphics for @UUBeta / Utrecht University. Best time of the year. People casually producing wavefront path tracers is awesome.

Some shots, by:

Arthur Baars
Dimas Leenman & Jesse Rosendahl
Hui En Lin
Roel de Jeu & Chris Lokhorst

I'm not even done yet. :)
January 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Very happy to see our latest review on PISA for drug delivery () highlighted on the cover of @JPolymSci!
Many credits to @EHochreiner for leading the writing process & designing the cover! @UUPharmaceutics @UUUIPS @UUBeta
July 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Very happy to see this Review on the current status & future of PISA for drug delivery published in the @JPolymSci! Many congrats to @EHochreiner for this beautiful and inspiring (first!) paper. @UUPharmaceutics, @UUUIPS, @UUBeta
July 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Excited & grateful to receive a #ERCStG from @ERC_Research! We will develop new tools to prepare & analyze polymeric gene delivery vehicles in a quest to optimize their therapeutic potential. Keep an eye out for exciting updates! @UUBeta @UUPharmaceutics
ERC Starting Grant for seven Utrecht-based researchers
The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding no fewer than seven ERC Starting Grants of €1.5 million each to Utrecht-based researchers.
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July 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
We have updated our website! Check out everything that is happening on research and educational level in our group: .
@UUPharmaceutics @UUUIPS @UUBeta
July 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Back @UtrechtUni, @UUBeta! Now as an assistant professor @UUPharmaceutics! Looking forward to all the great science in the upcoming years!
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Of course I got a lot of help along the way! Many thanks to all the labs that I had the privilege of working in during the last decade: @Voets_lab, @TNO, @theHelgesonLab, @HawkerNation, & Van 't Hoff lab of physical & colloid chemistry @UUBeta. Your support is highly appreciated!
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Very excited to announce that I will be starting as an assistant professor in the @UUPharmaceutics group @UUBeta as of July 1st! Looking forward to work with all my new colleagues including @TVermonden, Rene van Nostrum and of course many others!
July 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Our structural and functional analysis of 47D11, a SARS-CoV-2 cross-neutralising antibody, is now online @ScienceAdvances! A huge congratulations to everyone involved! @VET_UniUtrecht @UUBeta @Bijvoet_Centre @UniUtrecht...
November 22, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Back in March, my @VET_UniUtrecht colleagues discovered 47D11, a human monoclonal antibody which can neutralise SARS-CoV & SARS-CoV-2. In collaboration with the @UUBeta #CryoEM group, we now describe the 47D11 epitope! A huge thanks to all involved!...
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Interested in out-of-equilibrium colloidal assembly? Check out our latest feature article in @ACS_Langmuir. @Voets_lab, @EelkemaLab and Willem Kegel from @UUBeta
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Just accepted by the Journal of Colloid and Interface Sciene (@ELSchemistry) : Controllable Synthesis of Patchy Particles with Tunable Geometry and Orthogonal Chemistry. Congrats to Fuqiang Chang (@UUBeta) and all other coauthors!
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Check out our new Feature Article in @ACS_Langmuir on how to use chemical reaction networks to assembly colloids in an out-of-equilibrium fashion. Many thanks to @EelkemaLab, Willem Kegel (@UUBeta), @IKVoets / @Voets_lab!
July 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Excited to be hosting Mikael Elofsson and members of his group tomorrow! I encourage anyone interested in virology, chemistry or glycobiology to come see his talk tomorrow 👇🏻 @UniUtrecht @UUBeta @Bijvoet_Center
November 22, 2024 at 8:47 PM