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Ben Van Houten

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Scientist studying mechanisms of DNA repair using single molecule approaches.

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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I am incredibly proud of Matt Schaich, Emily Xu, and Elisa Dallo who presented their work at the Trondheim meeting.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Attending a wonderful DNA repair meeting in Trondheim, Norway. Thanks Barbara van Loon for being a splendid host.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thanks to Roman and Maurice from LUMICKS for arranging the trip.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Spent a lovely day at Masaryk University CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, wonderful tour of the Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility / CEITEC by Jitka Holková
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Brno is a center of innovation, since the days of Mendel.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Spent the last five days in the Czech Republic. Prague us a beautiful city.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Inspiring talks (especially Representstive Summer Lee) at the Standup for Science 2025, Pittsburgh, the home of the Salk polio vaccine.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/01/2025
Instead of lowering prices, the Trump Administration is disrupting the work of researchers who are studying life-saving medicines and treatments.
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Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
To my colleagues and friends at NIH, I feel your pain. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy New Year! Celebrating a new dawn. May your 2025 be a prosperous and healthy year.
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PacBio @pacbio.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A little birdie told us we should migrate to bluer skies. 😉 Hello Bluesky world. 👋🌎 Please re-share this post so we can follow you and help to grow the genomics community on here! 🧬✨
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
The final Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. The entire page is mostly white as they're in the winter snow. The pair is walking with a sledge, nicely duffled in in scarves, hats, gloves. Calvin delightedly exclaims 'wow, it really snowed las night! Isn't it wonderful?'. Hobbes follows up with 'Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand-new!' -- A new year... a fresh, clean start!' adds Calvin. As they look over the landscape, Hobbes observes 'it's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on!' -- 'A day full of possibilities!' Calvin affirms. They get ready on their sledge and Calvin tells his friend 'it's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... let's go exploring!', and the pair sledges off into the wintery landscape.
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Orlando D. Schärer @orlandoscharer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
What are your plans for October 2025? It would be a fantastic time to visit Norway for the Endogenous DNA Damage and Repair conference with a stellar set of speaker covering a wide range of topics. www.endodnadamage.com
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving! A good time to pause, and appreciate all that is good in our lives, and to be grateful for friends and family. Enjoy!
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Bluesky is taking off, checkout these numbers: www.fastcompany.com/91230935/the...
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The website tracks how fast Bluesky is growing in near real time
Bluesky has added millions of new users since the election—and this site lets you watch each one as they sign up.
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Happy to celebrate Brittiani Schnable's PhD work on thymine DNA glycosylase! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thymine DNA glycosylase combines sliding, hopping, and nucleosome interactions to efficiently search for 5-formylcytosine - Nature Communications
Thymine DNA glycosylase is an essential DNA repair enzyme involved in oxidative demethylation of 5- methylC. In this study the authors have tracked specific and non-specific DNA binding of TDG at the ...
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Ben Van Houten @benvh123.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Decided to start an account here to keep in touch with fellow scientists, so sad to see what has happened to Twitter.
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