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Today in #Belgium, we celebrate #Sinterklaas; the not-so-#woke predecessor of Santa who hands fruit & candy to good children who put out their shoe with a letter; but whips & kidnaps the bad ones. Luckily, the lab kids generally behaved well this year. Generally. Sam is missing…

The results of our very own #cop23 parallel meeting hosted by ⁦VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology⁩ are in! 😀

Turning the tide from #BlueMonday at work! 🚀 Celebrating the "start" of the year with a Potluck, bringing good vibes and delicious treats to the table.

🔬 From baby roots to cancer diagnostics and imaging ‘phantoms’, come explore microfluidics at VIB! 👉 vibbio.tech/3OfgJyj With thanks to @KULBiosensors @DanielVanDamme1 RaesLab Switch Lab Jan Cools VIB BioImaging Core VIB Flow Core Ghent VIB Technologies

Check out our back-to-back papers in Nature Communications today! 1st paper describes development of 16 orthogonal LoxPSym sites for easier genetic engineering - rdcu.be/dx2Yr. 2nd paper shows use in promoter shuffling for metabolic pathway optimization rdcu.be/dx20C

⚠️ A new toolbox that allows for genome engineering without CRISPR is now available. Read more here: vibbio.tech/3Svs6DE "This opens routes for many research projects" says Kevin Verstrepen from VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and KU Leuven. Publications in Nature Communications. #microbiology

.Kevin Verstrepen & co develop orthogonal LoxPsym sites that allow multiplexed site-specific recombination in prokaryotic and eukaryotic hosts #synbio #BiotechNatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Combinatorial optimization of gene expression through recombinase-mediated promoter and terminator shuffling in yeast Kevin Verstrepen, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology #synbio #BiotechNatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats Dr.Cautereels! What a PhD! Magnificent work resulting in 2 papers in Nature Com & a patent describing development & application of 16 novel orthogon. LoxP sites for genome engineering #proud! rdcu.be/dAgsR & rdcu.be/dAgsX KU Leuven VIB

Our new paper “Predicting and improving complex #beer flavor through #MachineLearning learning” is out in Nature Communications ! Read how we used #AI to make #belgian 🍺 even better: rdcu.be/dCyGX Comments in The Guardian theguardian.com/technology/202… KU Leuven VIB

newscientist.com/article/242433… rdcu.be/dCyGX

Scientists brew the future with AI that 'tastes' Belgian beer to make it better zmescience.com/future/ai-belg… via @zmescience

Looking for a comprehensive overview of different mutagenesis techniques for evolutionary engineering of microbes, including CRISPR-Cas, oligonucleotides, recombinases, and polymerases? Anna and Julian's new paper in Trends in Microbiology is here for ya: cell.com/trends/microbi…

Perfect post for a Friday nearing beer-o'-clock...

♻️ Right now, we make plastics flexible with petroleum-derived plasticizers. But what if we could make sustainable plasticizers with... yeast? Read all about in our latest blogpost by Sasha Yogiswara! (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology Kevin Verstrepen) vibbio.tech/3LKBxfj

Looking for a comprehensive overview of different mutagenesis techniques? Check out this review by the lab of Kevin Verstrepen from VIB and KU Leuven in the new September issue of Trends in Microbiology! 👇 cell.com/trends/microbi…

Kickoff meeting of our EPIC European Research Council (ERC) synergy project -2 days in Stockholm of discussing science, data exchange and techniques with our teams from Karolinska Institutet TU München and KU Leuven VIB Excited to unravel the code for post-transcriptional regulation!

The annual Sibylle Vonesch - Verstrepen lab retreat in Rochefort was a blast, yet again. A day of science and a day of fun, including a (rather adventurous) hike, casino and bar games, trivia and a party with various yeast fermentation products 🍻😁 We even had 🌞 ! VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology

There is a fly in my beer! How studying beer preference of fruit flies can help improve biological pest control. Work by Kevin Verstrepen (VIB, KU Leuven) and @SilkeSachse (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) and colleagues. iScience journal: cell.com/iscience/fullt… More info below 👇

Another one leaves the nest. Lloyd Cool defended his thesis in the coolest auditorium of KU Leuven and officially became Dr. Cool 😎 🎓(and yes, that’s his real name). Thanks Gianni Liti for being a jury member (and explaining the steam engine). VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology