Justin J.J. van der Hooft

Training from Schiphol towards #Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social after #ECMNP25 (European Conference on Marine Natural Products), I will leave you with this (action) shot of #Piran, #Slovenia, in the morning light.... 😎

Larissa Della Vedova (UU/WUR) on Optimization of a Mass Spectrometry and Computational Metabolomics Workflow to Unveil Microbial Dynamics in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

#metabolomics for #microbialecology

NWO-XL project by @lizscurious.bsky.social and colleagues
#NIME2025

Ready for #ECMNP25 in Piran, Slovenia! 😎 It was great seeing many familiar faces at the welcome reception, and to meet new colleagues in the marine natural products field! 😊

The eScience blog is back from a well-deserved holiday period. Checkout @egpbos.bsky.social 's latest post about user-friendliness.
blog.esciencecenter.nl/be-like-jurr...

Me after a week of teaching..(and the other work activities)....

Aaand it's out! Meet MITE - the natural product tailoring enzyme database, just published in @narjournal.bsky.social! MITE DB captures the substrate- and reaction-specificity of tailoring enzymes, allowing to capture this information in a human- and machine-readable way! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Good morning from #Wageningen 😎

Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes In microbial ecosystems, metabolic interactions are key determinants of species’ relative abundance and activity. Given the immense number of possible interactions in microbial communities, their expe...

New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@mehdibeni.bsky.social drove it forward, and it was a pleasure to contribute with @robinschmid.bsky.social, @Wout Bittremieux, @Olivier Cailloux, and @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social.
It places the scalability of MS-based metabolomics for natural extracts as a central challenge rather than a side issue.

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Looking up in #TheHague today 😎

We're looking for a postdoc who wants to tackle multi-modal federated learning applied to drug discovery.

There will be:
- A great team
- Loads of data
- An interesting and important application
- A beautiful, modern campus
...

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Visited a green sanctuary in #Utrecht 😎

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Visited an exotic part of the Netherlands 😊 😎

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham Apply now for the Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III.

Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

#Wageningen tonight 😎

Street #theater festival in #Amersfoort #spoffin spinoff! Yesterday was one day full of acts across the city center 😎 With the future of #acrobatics (who controls who?), a tender dance of two, a slippery scene, and the premiere of an acrobatic group (who is loyal to whom?), it was an enjoyable day!

#leiden #bmd2025 #metabolomics #compmetabolomics #naturalproducts… | Justin J.J. van der Hooft Traveling back from #Leiden Leiden Early Drug Discovery and Development (LED3) Universiteit Leiden after today's kickoff of the FAIRify your metabolomics TTDC project (watch this space!) Looking bac...

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#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #BeNeLux #community

Great sessions today at the #BMD2025! 😎 This included talks by Alexandra Zhernakova on metabolic dynamics during pregnancy, Federico Padilla on retrospective mining for toxic alkaloids associated to wheat, and our own Felicia Wolters introducing her FAIR plant paired omics dataset! #CompMetabolomics

Ready for day 2 of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden 😎 #metabolomics #CompMetabolomics

#CompMetabolomics

Great final session of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden today! 😎 With our own @mmzdouc.bsky.social presenting #FERMO, including a flashback to his talk 3 years ago in Utrecht at the #BMD2022, and a fantastic keynote by Jonathan Martin on the #metabolomics of #exposomics!

Great #CompMetabolomics session during the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden! 😎
From targeted approaches with Pablo Vangeenderhuysen, to untargeted approaches with Janne Heirman, to knowledge graphs with Elham Memarian, complemented with vendor talks by Waters BeNeLux & SCIEX!

#metabolomics

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.

Make bacteria great again!

With metabolomics tours like the one by Laura Hetzel and presentations by #BMC PI Board members like Bart Ghesquière, the #BMD2025 in #Leiden at Universiteit Leiden is in full swing! 😎
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics

On the look out for good #metabolomics #research and #networking opportunities?! The #BeNeLux Metabolomics Days 2025 just started in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden! 😎 #CompMetabolomics

(and it still is)