Bastiaan Bijl

On Tuesday, October 29, Single Cell Discoveries and Bisc Global, a Belgium-based bioinformatics company, are organizing a conference on single-cell bioinformatics. Entrance to the conference is free of charge, but if you want to come, please make sure to sign up by going to the registration page below. About the event When?Tuesday, 29th of October 2019,…

We are very excited to welcome the newest member of the team, the Opentrons OT-2 pipetting robot! The robot will help us with increasing the output of our processes and further develop our services. The OT-2, nicknamed “Otis”, was conceived in New York, US and born in Shenzen, China. Being only a few weeks old, he is already…

We are proud to announce the final program for the Single-cell Sequencing Conference on April 9, 2019. We have invited top-notch scientists from the UMC Utrecht, the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and the Hubrecht Institute to share their research and their experience with single-cell RNA sequencing analyses. THE CONFERENCE IS FULL! Response to the conference has been overwhelming and we…

We are pleased to announce that as of February 1st, Lotte Koopman has joined the team as Lab Manager NGS. At Single Cell Discoveries, Lotte will be responsible for managing lab processes, customer samples and product optimization. Lotte completed her bachelors in Biomedical Sciences and her masters in Biology of Disease at Utrecht University. She will in June finish…

A few weeks ago, the Single Cell Discoveries labs were visited by a television crew from local news station RTV Utrecht. Single Cell Discoveries CEO Mauro was interviewed by Henk Westbroek about the single-cell sequencing technology. In the interview, Mauro explains to Henk in layman’s terms how single-cell sequencing works, and what the benefits are for scientific and clinical…

Last week Friday, January 11, a film crew from the local TV station RTV Utrecht visited the Single Cell Discoveries labs. During the visit, our CEO Mauro Muraro was interviewed about the single-cell sequencing technology and its applications. Mauro started by explaining the basics of cell biology to Henk Westbroek, the presenter of the show. After this, he…

Late last night, the renowned scientific magazine Science announced single-cell sequencing to be the scientific breakthrough of the year 2018. In fact, 12,000 of its readers voted for single-cell sequencing in the poll. Consequently, the technology left other developments like multimessenger astrophysics and a new molecular CT scan behind. In an article in the Dutch daily newspaper Volkskrant, Single Cell Discoveries…

We are pleased to announce that as of November 1st, Bastiaan Bijl joins the team as Business Development Manager. At Single Cell Discoveries, Bastiaan is responsible for discovering new markets for our single cell sequencing services and help customers in need of our services get in touch. Bastiaan has a BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences and an MSc degree…

As a service provider of Single Cell Sequencing, questions we get on a daily basis are: “Why would you want to sequence single cells?”, or “How does single cell sequencing work?”. Giving an easy and short answer to these questions is not always easy. The technique is not so simple to explain in just a…

Single Cell Discoveries has launched on September 11th 2018! The event took place at the Hubrecht Institute, where director Alexander van Oudenaarden kicked off the event with a speech. Single Cell Discoveries CEO Mauro Muraro continued with a brief overview of the short history of the company, our mission and an overview of our services. Finally,…