The bioinformatics group at WUR recently organized a two-days retreat at Hapert, The Netherlands. It was a lovely location amidst beautiful country side. The retreat mainly comprised of social events and scientific flash talks. I presented a flash talk on my research as a part of the NWO Groot project and also delivered a workshop on teams/project management in academia. The retreat allowed all the department members to interact closely with their fellow workers and group leaders in an informal way.
I have recently presented my work at the BioSB 2022 conference in Lunteren, the Netherlands, on the integrative omics using MEANtools (MEtabolite ANticipation tools) to discover biosynthetic pathways in plants.
Felicia C. Wolters defended her master dissertation (Master of Science, Major Phytopathology and Entomology) on the topic "Evolution of the Hydroxygeranyllinalool Diterpene Glycoside Pathway in Solanaceae". This work was jointly supervised by Iris Kappers (Plant physiology, WUR), Marnix Medema (Bioinformatic group, WUR) and me. Congratulations to Felicia on her successful defense and good luck for future scientific adventures.
We have presented a poster in the fourth edition of the X-omics festival “the future of multi-omics research is now!” on Monday April 11th 2022 https://x-omics.nl/festival/festival-2022. It was a great event and very well organized. Scientific poster session allowed us to network with others working with similar goals and our poster on MEANtools, Integrative omics for the discovery of biosynthetic pathways using MEANtools (MEtabolite ANticipation tools) was awarded the best poster prize of 2022.