Exciting to see our colleagues and alumni reconnect during the #VIBAlumni Series this evening on the eve of the #TRIC23. Thank you Gwen Swinnen Université de Lausanne, Ward Decaestecker Inari, Jenny Neukermans KU Leuven, & Nick Vangheluwe @euroseedsEU for your excellent contributions! 🙌

Today we’re delighted to host Wilfred Elegba from BNARI-GAEC for a KU Leuven Plant Institute special seminar! Dr. Elegba gave a powerful talk urging institutions in developed countries to “think globally, not just locally”.

Read our newest PI’s editorial on #NGT #CRISPR in European agriculture in this week’s issue of nature! Mehta Lab writes, “Speeding up plant breeding is an essential part of feeding the world in the face of accelerating climate change” rdcu.be/dhhW0

A new chance for genome editing in Europe go.nature.com/3EFmfFh rdcu.be/dmaoQ

VANDERSCHUREN LAB from Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven KU Leuven Plant Institute KU Leuven just gave a lecture at SITH ITB in Indonesia. A very nice one and very well received by the students. We thank you very much, Prof. Vanderschuren. instagram.com/stories/dieldi…

Our research and advocacy for enabling the use of #NGTs #CRISPR in EU agriculture was profiled on ORF yesterday. (🇩🇪 audio) Many thanks for the opportunity (and for giving us the last word🙂) tvthek.orf.at/profile/Fokus-…

💡We're hiring! A 4-year funded PhD position on developing & using interaction proteomics tools to study transcriptional regulation in the plant circadian clock! #plantscijobs Please apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… (no citizenship requirements, Master's degree required)

A new academic year, a new crew! I am happy to be surrounded by so many talented master students, PhD's, postdocs and a great lab-tech! Let's discover together! Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven KU Leuven Plant Institute KU Leuven

The plant sensor work of the Bram Van de Poel 🌈 lab featured on the KU Leuven homepage. PhD student Batist Geldhof developped a new sensor for capturing plant motion to detect plant stress. Thanks to FWO BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven

🚨We're HIRING! A fully-funded 4-year PhD position developing & studying how the plant circadian clock works and how this complex protein network will change under future agricultural climate scenarios! Apply Here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

[IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) Seminar] 2024-01-15 15:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Devang Mehta Devang Mehta 🌱👨🏽‍🔬🧬 (Assistant Professor, Plant Science Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium) Title：Closing gaps in plant chronobiology: from genome to proteome and from molecules to future geographies

Our new paper in Plant Physiology reveals how "Ethylene inhibits photosynthesis via temporally distinct responses in tomato plants" KU Leuven Plant Institute Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

My lab is recruiting a postdoc on an FWO/FNRS funded project. Interested in researching how secondary metabolites from beneficial bacteria trigger immune responses in plants? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven KU Leuven Plant Institute BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven

Delighted to share that the lab was awarded a VLAIO agriculture grant with Bram Van de Poel 🌈 @InagroBeitem Proefstation voor de groenteteelt @pcsierteelt and PC Hoogstraten! Looking forward to working with new collaborators! vlaio.be/nl/nieuws/15-l…

Yesterday, we turned off the lights in our university greenhouse. Multiple generations of students have conducted their experiments here. Now, we’re preparing for a new chapter and look forward to the opening of our new greenhouse in 2025! #Greenhouse #NewBeginnings

🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in Science Advances. With UhrigLab we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

In our recent work Plant Biotechnology Journal we show that the 5´UTR of a gene can be edited for improved trait in potato #lowacrylamid. Fruitful collaboration with CRA-W and Max Rubner-Institut. #EAPR14 #CRISPR doi.org/10.1111/pbi.14…