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Timo M. Breit did his PhD studies on molecular genetic
mechanisms of gene rearrangements (Erasmus University
Rotterdam). He worked as post-doc on gene expression
studies (University of Utrecht) and later for several
years in the lab of Fred Alt (Harvard Medical School,
Boston, USA). He continued as a group leader of the
Micro-Array Department (MAD, 9 people) (University of
Amsterdam).
During this period micro-array technology was
successfully validated and implemented at the MAD along
with the necessary bioinformatics tools.
He also became heavily involved in the Dutch
transcriptomics research field and initiated the
national Micro-Array Operators-Platform (MAOP).
Here he was also the project leader of WTCW ICES-KIS-II
sub-project “Biotechnology & Bioinformatics” and formed
a close (bio)informatics collaboration with the adjacent
sub-project “Virtual Laboratory” at the Institute for
Informatics, which resulted in collaboration in the
national programs “Virtual Laboratory for e-Science –VL-e”
(ICT infrastructure), “BioRange” (bioinformatics
research) , and “Bioinformatics Support Program –
BioAssist” (bioinformatics support). The latter three
projects are of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC)
of which he is a member of the national advisory
committee and management team.
Because of the bioinformatics research, a new group was
established; Integrative Bioinformatics Unit (IBU, 9
people), which focuses on research, development and
application of bioinformatics methodology related to
discovery of fundamental cellular phenomena and solving
multi-facetted biological problems by concurrent
exploration of genome-wide biological data from all
cellular levels produced by various techniques. Within
the framework of the VL-e project recently, his group
created the e-BioLab,
an interactive and creative environment for
multidisciplinary collaboration and e-BioScience domain
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