The Virtual Laboratory research group

Bram van Dijk, with Who? Role Research Focus Sultan A. Nazir PhD candidate Phages, pathogenicity, and HGT Alkmini Zania PhD candidate The origin of life and inheritance Lőrinc Kóródi MSc student Fungal disease in agriculture Jesse Wils HAN intern Bacterial transposon distributions Lira van dinther Msc student Lysogenic decision making in complex ecosystems Ben Ronai BSc student toyLife developmental programs Gemma Veenstra BSc student Why are virulence traits mobile? Joep Zandbergen BSc student The eco-evolutionary benefits of mobile chromosomes Konstantinos Psallidas Argyropoulo Volunteering student Getting fit in space: faster or slower?

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Educational materials

Below I collected some PDFs, videos, or links to blogs that me and my colleagues have produced over the years. These can be used to get you started in various fields of computational biology (mathematics, modelling, metagenomics).

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Theoretical Biology

• Basic Mathematics for Biologists
• Biologische Modellen en Statistiek (Dutch, first-year course)
• Theoretical Biology (English, first-year course)

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Learning to code

• Getting started with Cacatoo, a browser-based modelling toolbox"
• Video tutorials on Cacatoo
• Blog series on programming with Javascript/NodeJS

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Other

• The basic principles of metagenomics (workshop syllabus)

Simulations

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