VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology

🎉 Congratulations to Luca Tiraboschi on being awarded an @EMBO scientific exchange grant, joining the group of @SibylleVonesch to collaborate on developing novel gene editing techniques! (@KU_Leuven , @VIBLifeSciences)

🚀📄The @KevinVerstrepen lab is making the most of summer—another paper published! In this one, Sasha and the team managed to valorize a byproduct stream in bioethanol fermentation, laying the groundwork toward sustainable, high-value bioproduction. 👇pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

🚨 We're hiring at the @SibylleVonesch lab! Excited about CRISPR technology development, HT genetic screens, and exploring fundamental questions in genetics? Apply here! 🔬 Postdoctoral Researcher jobs.vib.be/j/117184/post-… 🧪 Research Technician jobs.vib.be/j/117186/resea…

📃🥳 Excited to share a new paper from the @KevinVerstrepen lab! Jolien et al highlight the power of combining biodiversity with precision metabolic engineering for sustainable microbial bioproduction. Read all about it 👇: …robialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @KU_Leuven @VIBLifeSciences

🎉 Proud to announce that Doris van Bergeijk, postdoctoral researcher at @RaesLab (@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences), has been awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @FWOVlaanderen, to study how the gut microbiome can shape our mental health. 🧠🦠

Want to learn more about Joleen's research? Listen to @VIBLifeSciences's new podcast, Called to Science, where she talks about hunting microbes, being proactive, and the thrill of discovery. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Youtube! 🎧

🥳 Huge congratulations to Prof. Joleen Masschelein ( @Masschelein_Lab, @VIBLifeSciences, @KU_Leuven) for being awarded the 2025 EFMC Academia Prize (@EuroMedChem)!

Microbes are at the heart of a more sustainable future. #Microbes25 will showcase how they affect your food, health, and circular economy. 📢Join us in Leuven, 6-7 Nov 2025, and discover the key drivers of progress in applied #microbiology, vibbio.tech/42KATH4. #MicrobialBiotech #microbes #MicrobialEcology

🎉 Huge congratulations to @sammy_pontrelli for obtaining a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen Odysseus grant! 🎉 Sammy's research will investigate how microbes make "mistakes" to create accidental, long-lived molecules from carbon dioxide! Find out more here: pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

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🥳 The province @vlaams_brabant has invested in the innovative MicrobeSpotter project of @LabMichiels (in collab with @VIBLifeSciences, @KU_Leuven, @imec_int and Comate) to develop a diagnostic platform, revolutionizing UTI treatment with faster diagnosis & reduced antibiotic use

We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in dissolved organic molecules! jobso.id/m9nq

@VIB_microbes Here's our lab website: pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

We are a starting lab at @VIB_microbes in Belgium, a super collaborative, interdisciplinary, and motivated environment. Our lab also has its own mass specs and microbiology setups that you can use at your heart's delight!

🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined @vib_microbes to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 👉 Read more: vibbio.tech/3QbzyTI

🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined our center to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 🤩 Read more: prez.ly/xCcd

Researchers at @VIB_microbes and @CBD_VIB revealed the relationship between #ProteinAggregation and #BacterialDormancy, states during which bacteria are not susceptible to #antibiotics. 🧫 flanders.bio/news/new-study…

🔬 New research by @Janmichiels0 @LiselotDW @BollenCelien and colleagues (@VIB_microbes) in @NatureComms shows how protein 'clumps' drive bacteria into a state of dormancy, with implications for antibiotic resistance. 👉 Read here vibbio.tech/4jx0JFY @FWOVlaanderen @KU_Leuven

🎙️🎧 This month, the Verstrepen lab's research on non-alcoholic beers 🍺(@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences) has featured in 2 international podcasts (#BBCCrowdScience @BBCSounds and #DeNachtVan @NPORadio1)! Listen to them here: cfm.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

📣The lab of @KevinVerstrepen is looking for an ✨executive admin✨to ensure that our center and lab keeps running strong 💪 Want to join a young, dynamic and international team of scientists and admins? See and apply here 👇 jobs.vib.be/j/100273/manag…