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Welcome to the website of the Laboratory of Microbiology,         Prof. Dr W.M. de Vos
part of the Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group,                     Chair
Wageningen University



Microbiology in the news

Willem de Vos measures up!
The Resource reports that he has the top billing at Wageningen UR with an impressive h-factor of 77. To learn more about the importance of the h-index within the academic world and to read Willem's thoughts on the subject, take a look at pp. 12-15 of Resource no. 10 (12 January 2012) or click on the following link: h-index at Wageningen UR



Fons Stams and Michiel Kleerebezem in the top 20!
The Laboratory of Microbiology is proud to have no less than 3 professors on the list of the top 20 Wageningen UR academics with the highest h-factor. Fons and Michiel occupy the 14th and 17th places.  The list can be found on page 13 of Resource no. 10 (12 January).

Willem de Vos and John van der Oost on TV
On 19 October at 20.50 hrs, Willem de Vos was on the Dutch television programme Labyrint on the channel Nederland 2. The VPRO television crew was at the Laboratory of Microbiology on 20 September to film the footage for this segment.


And on 23 November at 20.50 hrs, John van der Oost appeared on the same programme. Footage for this segment was filmed in the United States at Yellowstone National Park.


http://www.wetenschap24.nl/agenda-gids.html

Two awards for Dr Matthijs Jore
Based on his thesis "CRISPR-mediated anti-viral defense in prokaryotes", Matthijs Jore has recently won 2 awards. The DSM Award (3rd place), a reward for outstanding young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD and who are conducting innovative research with clear potential for practical applications, and the 2011 Nat Sternberg Thesis Prize (1st place) for the most outstanding PhD thesis in prokaryotic molecular genetics.


Publications

Structures of the RNA-guided surveillance complex from a bacterial immune system - Matthijs Jore, Stan Brouns, John van der Oost et al. - published in Nature (Sept 2011)

 

Interference by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA is governed by a seed sequence - Matthijs Jore, Edze Westra, John van Oost, Stan Brouns et al. - published in PNAS (June 2011)



Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome - Michiel Kleerebezem, Sebastian Tims, Erwin Zoetendal, Willem M. de Vos et al. - published in Nature (June 2011)



Evolution and classification of the CRISPR/Cas systems - Stan Brouns, John van der Oost et al. - published in 
Nature Reviews Microbiology (June 2011)










     



















































 













News
17 Jan 2012
Fons Stams and Michiel Kleerebezem in the top 20
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Calendar
7 Feb 2012
Mandatory General Safety Lecture
8 Feb 2012
PhD PD Meetings: Presentations by Anisha Goel, Teun Veuskens, Elleke Bosma, Jing Zhang
9 Feb 2012
"Swarming bacteria as freight haulage systems" by Colin Ingham
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Contact
Laboratory of Microbiology
Dreijenplein 10
6703 HB Wageningen
The Netherlands
 
phone: 31 317 482105
fax: 31 317 483829
e-mail: Office.MIB@wur.nl
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