Op 19 juni 2025 geef ik een lezing over natuur- en landschapsbescherming op Goeree Overflakkee bij Deltawind. Aanmelden kan hier.

My colleague Bo Blanckenburg and me wrote a textbook on Next Generation Sequencing. NGS technology has come of age in recent decades and is now finding its way into many labs. This book explains the basics of NGS and NGS data analysis. It is aimed at University students as well as technicians who want to familiarize themselves with these techniques and the possibilities they offer.

Available through Syntax Media.

The paper (in Dutch) in Natuur.Oriolus describes how four students of the University of Applied Sciences Leiden used DNA to establish that a putative hybrid King Eider x Eider that was present along the Flemmish coast in June 2022 was in fact a pure King Eider.

The review resulting from the 2019 Lorentz workshop on predicting evolution, entitled: Towards evolutionary predictions: current promises and challenges has now been published in Evolutionary Applications.

A photo of the DNA walk I did with my colleagues at the Leiden Centre for Applied Biosciene Leiden in Octber 2022. A DNA walk is a guided tour, in this case through the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, during which I tell stories about the DNA of the plants and animals that we encounter.

On April 25th 2022 everyone with an interest in DNA could join me during a walk through the parks of Leiden, The Netherlands. The trees, birds and flowers seen during the walk each have their own DNA stories to tell.

A new citizen science project has launched in which we will look at the soil microbiome around Tulip bulbs

The manuscript of the review resulting from the 2019 Lorentz workshop on predicting evolution, entitled: The why, what and how of predicting evolution across biology: from disease to biotechnology to biodiversity is now in preprint.

Our new paper on whole-genome duplications in Hexapods is featured on the front page of BMC Biology

Today’s conference at which I was to give a bioinformatics workshop for Biology teachers was cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic