Next week I will submit a new research grant. One document that I needed to update for this submission was my scientific CV. I believe that such a CV needs to have a list of your scientific publications, or a selected relevant subset. I decided that I wanted to spice up the CV a little […]
I made this tutorial as part of the emblr sessions. I hope you enjoy it as well! Introduction In this tutorial I will give a short introduction on the functionalities of the purrr package. I love this quote by Rebecca Barter that exactly described my feeling about this package before I started working with it: […]
It’s November. For us Europeans, and most inhabitants of the Northern Hemisphere, that means that the days are getting colder and darker again. The trees are losing their leaves and people go nuts about collecting nuts in the forests. Still, I think November is a nice month. Why? Because October has ended. “What’s wrong with […]
At the end of May, I was happy to hear that my second first-author paper, entitled Carrot juice fermentations as man-made microbial ecosystems dominated by lactic acid bacteria was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. I’m especially proud on this manuscript as we used different molecular (DNA vs RNA based 16S sequencing), analytical (HPLC-RI and […]
In 2016, during Christmas break, I got bored and decided to experiment with an old Raspberry Pi that I had laying around. At that time, me and my colleague were in the middle of writing our first comparative genomics paper in which we compared an in-house sequenced bacterial isolate with all publicly available closely related […]
You should know that I’m a real DNA-junkie. When I heard about DNA the very first time in high school, I was really baffled with the fact that it can carry so much information just by repeating A, C, G and T’s in a very long string. It contains the blueprint for almost every important […]
FWO-SB is a very important funding channel for PhD students in Flanders (Belgium). After submitting a proposal in September, PhD candidates have to defend their project for a jury in November/December. Usually the results appear online in mid-December, and for this year’s call that was today: De resultaten SB beurzen oproep 2017 staan online https://t.co/2EG16ohL9I […]
Slack is a free to use communication platform for teams that allows its members to easily send messages, share files and manage to-do lists. As usual, when I hear that people are excited about a new tool or app, I can’t wait to test it out. So I introduced Slack to some of my colleagues, we […]