Ies Nijman

09:05 - 09:15 "Adding a pinch of biology to your omics data: running spatial multi omics on Nanostring's GeoMx and CosMx."

Ies Nijman received his PhD in 1999 on repetitive DNA elements from the Utrecht University. After Postdoc projects on genetic biodiversity in farm animal breeds he moved to the field of human and model organism bioinformatics in 2006 in the Hubrecht Institute and later UMCU. Throughout the years his focus was on innovation and implementation of next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics in various fields. As of 2018 he is managing the Utrecht Sequencing Facility as well as the Bioinformatic and high-performance compute facilities.