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Postdoc position available jointly between the lab of @BEDutilh and myself: uu.nl/en/organisatio… Come join us!

MIBiG 4.0 is out! Thanks @MitjaMZ and Kai Blin for spearheading this huge effort, and to the entire community for investing time in extending this resource on BGCs of known function.

It was great to host 🧬Jacob L Steenwyk in Wageningen for a seminar today. Exciting discussions about orthology predictions, bioinformatic software/tool development and applications on interesting biological and biochemical problems...

Try it out!! Completely refactored, much faster and with a range of new features, including new interactive exploration options in the output user interface!

Preprint alert 🌲🌲🌲 We are excited to share our work integrating metabolomics & transcriptomics to discover plant biosynthetic pathways. MEANtools uses resources like RetroRules & LOTUS to integrate reaction and structural knowledge. Additionally, implementing a GNN-based

Join us for @ISBA2025 on Actinomycetes at the lovely beach of Egmond aan Zee (NL), from June 15–19, 2025. Topics include development, drug discovery, ecology and pathogenicity. universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025. Registration and abstract submission here: tinyurl.com/ISBA2025.

I am glad to announce that I am one of the 8 winners of the 4th Edition of the #FAIR Data Fund! 4TU.ResearchData is an international data repository for science, engineering and design. They offer research dataset curation, sharing, long-term access and preservation services.

🌸🧼We made the cover⚕️🌱 📢Check out the February issue of Nature Chemical Biology✨️ The cover illustration is an antique soapwort drawing from Flora Londonensis (1835), one of the many beautiful rare books in the collection of JIC Archives John Innes Centre 📜

Looking back at an amazing week revolving around the inauguration of Kelly Chibale of H3D Foundation as honorary doctor during Dies Natalis of Universiteit Leiden. We had a great picture taken in the senaatskamer of our academy building.

We’re supper excited for Justin van der Hooft’s visit University of Johannesburg!! As a starter, we urge you to join the @EMN_MSA journal club (on zoom) tomorrow morning. zoom.us/j/95774858876?… #metabolomics #CompMet #Metabolome

#Lichens, the secondary metabolite goldmine Singh et al. Garima Singh Francesco Dal Grande Marnix Medema Francis M. Martin 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

It was an honor to play a small role in this… great to see your vision on this topic out in this review, Garima Singh !

Exciting opportunity to join our group as postdoc! Apply now for this project on computational (meta)genome mining as part of a collaborative European research consortium: wur.nl/en/vacancy/pos… Please share!

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Breaking into #nature's secret medicine cabinet: #lichens – a biochemical goldmine ready for discovery A Research #review by Garima Singh, Francesco Dal Grande, Marnix Medema, Francis M. Martin 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

Deadline is today! Last chance to apply...

the organisers of the NPlinker symposium Marnix Medema Justin van der Hooft are ready for a fun afternoon celebrating 10 years of community science Wageningen U&R

Our paper on #biosynthetic genes coding for ribosomal #peptides is out now: rdcu.be/ekux7! We present the 1st report of #RiPP-BGCs presence & diversity in #lichens. Spoiler: they’re ubiquitous & make up ~15–20% of #BGCs. #secondarymetabolites #fungi #genomeMining

mid June we organized the ISBA2025 meeting in Egmond aan Zee, with 375 participants from around the world, to enjoy the biology, genetics, ecology and medical applications of Actinomycetes. My lab played a home match (see photo). Thanks all for making it a success!