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!

🌱 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 defence: Towards Fair and Explainable Machine Learning Modeling in Mental Health PhD defence of G. Sogancioglu (Faculty of Science / Social and Affective Computing)

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...

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@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
#HeysemKaya

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.

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

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...
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#WesterdijkBiodiversity

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
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#PhytoWUR @keygene.com