Thursday, August 16, 2012


NGI-NBIC Distinguished Visiting Scientist Award for Prof. Roland Siezen

A Distinguished Visiting Scientist stipend for the period 2010-2013 has been awarded by NGI-NBIC to Prof. Dr. Roland Siezen of the Bacterial Genomics group at the Center of Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI), UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen. He will visit international host institutes to set up new collaborations in genomics and bioinformatics of food- and health/disease-related bacteria, in particular in relation to microbial diversity. This will also involve exchange and developments of bioinformatics tools and databases. These host institutes at universities in South Africa and USA are of high international reputation, with excellent scientific infrastructure and computational facilities.
Prof. Siezen’s goals are to increase the international visibility of the NGI, NBIC, the Kluyver Centre and TI Food and Nutrition programmes and science at the host institutes by giving guest lectures, and by discussing NBIC/Kluyver/TIFN research projects with local scientists and students. The collaborations should lead to joint international publications (1-2 per host institute) with these NGI institutes.
The first visit in March 2011 was to the Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research of Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and to the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), University of the Western Cape in Capetown. He was accompanied by PhD student Anita Schürch of the Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), in Bilthoven, the Netherlands
The second visit in September 2012 will be to the Food Science and Technology Department, University of California, Davis, USA. Host scientist will be Dr. Maria Marco. Prof. Siezen will be accompanied by NBIC PhD student Lex Overmars of the CMBI, Nijmegen.

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