👩🏾‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬 #DiversityInSTEM is crucial for driving innovation and solving complex problems. HR director Marijke Lein tells us how VIB works towards supporting and promoting #womeninscience. #diversityatVIB 👇

Spatial Metabolomics, the last frontier? These two flagships from Waters Corporation will get us there. Studying metabolites in their in vivo setting! Thankful for the support of KU Leuven OTF and StichtingtegenKanker through the joint efforts of @FendtLab, Johan Swinnen and @vib_mec_core

👀🧫 Curious how group leader Joleen Masschelein (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Masschelein Lab) uses microbes as factories to produce medicines? Find out in this interview 👉 bit.ly/3YFf8Vs Here's Joleen's view on #womeninscience. 👇 #diversityatVIB

This one is special to me ! A crazy hypothesis from my thesis that turned out to be reality. Amazing work by @emile_dupuy and Sander E. Van der Verren from the Collet Lab and Han Remaut labs, now in Cell! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our second Tracer Metabolomics Course has started. In this 2-day course, researchers learn the ins and outs of mass spectrometry, metabolomics and tracer metabolomics. They've earned a peaceful weekend :-) KU Leuven @vib_mec_core VIB PostDocs

Extremely happy to announce the preprint of our Acinetobacter baumannii competence paper spearheaded by Nina Nina Vesel who also did almost all wet-lab experiments....🧵below .... 1/n

👩‍🔬 Science is for everyone! Group leader Inge De Clercq agrees (Inge De Clercq Lab, @PSB_VIB) 👇 #womeninscience #diversityatVIB

👩‍🔬🔬 Celebrating the brilliance and achievements of #womeninscience! Today and every day, we stand in awe of the contributions they make to advance #biotechnology. Here's to a future where all scientists are valued equally, regardless of gender. #diversityatVIB

The Annual Symposium #BSM2023 of the Belgian Society for Microbiology (BSM) was a great success! I found the scientific level very high, not only in the talks of our invited speakers, but also in the presentations of #ECRs. Congratulations to the award winners and all other presenters!

Hi Acinetobacter friends! Just a reminder about the conference in Portugal in person this June. More info here: 13acinetobacter.org

🧫 Using a new coculture system, the lab of Ludo Van Den Bosch (Ludo Van Den Bosch, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) identified astrocytes as a critical player in the abnormal immune response of #ALS. 👀 Read more: bit.ly/3ImIVLQ Their findings were published in Molecular Neurodegeneration. Image: ©️Katarina Stoklund Dittlau

not the two superbugs you want to see teaming up Cross-protection and cross-feeding between 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘦 and 𝘈𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘪 promotes their coexistence Lucie Paulsen Lab Macquarie University nature.com/articles/s4146…

Mijlpaal voor onze laatste spin-off! tijd.be/ondernemen/far…

🎇 Kicking off with the #VIBTechnologies campaign: we interviewed Geert Van Minnebruggen and Saskia Lippens at the head of VIB's Core Facilities and Tech Watch to reflect on the importance and value of technology integration in research. 👇 vibbio.tech/3ZDGr2G

Just Published! Short article. The evolution of copiotrophy/oligotrophy concept during last century. All started reading an old paper by Winogradsky. We link copiotrophy/oligotrophy to fast/slow growth using Monod curves.

An essay on the many ways microbes can be used to help humanity. Kenneth Timmis ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

#CoreFacilities ensure scientists can access the latest #technology & #expertise. Beyond making top technology accessible, they provide expertise in a relatively permanent & continuously growing way. 👩‍🔬 Intrigued? Read all about it here!👇 bit.ly/3YAIXWG #VIBTechnologies

🔥 Exciting! First research article from the lab SUBMITTED! Time for celebrations 🎉🍾

📢 #VIBspinoff Exevir Bio, together with researchers from our Center for Medical Biotechnology (VIB Medical Biotechnology), have published a pre-print paper detailing positive results for a new antibody binding to the S2 subunit of the infamous #Covid19 #spikeprotein. bit.ly/40kHogX