#NSABS2022 is now officially closed, big congratulations to the three winners of best poster and three winners of the best oral presentation. Also a big thank you for the organizing committee, especially Dieter Vandenheuvel and Irina Spacova Hope to see you all next year!

Congratulations to Bart Dequeker, Sang D. Nguyen, Hannelore Peeters, Fien Waegenaar, Emma Cremelie and Veronica Santoro on their well-deserved #NSABS2022 awards!

Proud to present our manuscript in Nature Communications on deep mutational scanning as a means to aid drug discovery! @LiselotDW disq.us/t/4dqsg27

Exciting news! We're hiring a tenure-track Professor in Microbial Metabolomics and Enzyme Engineering for cutting-edge research at KU Leuven & VIB . Get a generous startup package, yearly research endowment & full salary. Apply here! kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Planning to apply for ab MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship? We would be delighted to welcome you to our team! More info here michielslab.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/jo…

Extremely proud of our long-time friend and colleague #LiselotDW who is spreading her wings and has accepted a professorship at de Duve Institute @UCLouvain_be. We wish you all the best in your career and hope to continue collaborating in the future!

Ready to dive into some New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology EMBL Heidelberg! Visit our posters on ObgE* inhibition of LpxA/LPS synthesis, protein aggregation and CRISPRi screening of persister cells at numbers 113, 85 and 186. #EESMicrobiology Celien Bollen @LiselotDW

We’re hiring! Fully funded postdoc position available in our group VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology. Interested in developing highly multiplexed CRISPR/Cas-based tools for functional genomic screens in a non-model yeast? Please apply: jobso.id/g7sd

Next up at #FEMS2023, our own Jan Michiels of the Michiels lab VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology. I'm biased but what a nice crispri approach to study persister awekening. Could use some awekening myself.... 😋 Luckily the talks keep me awake.

Our lab is well represented at #FEMS2023. Visit our posters at numbers M161 and M323 (today), and T25 and T252 (tomorrow)!

Returning home with plenty of new ideas and two poster prizes! Thanks #fems2023 and hooray for Sofie Louwagie and Silke Vercauteren!

We are hiring! For a project on mutational robustness and evolvability in bacteria we are looking for a new PhD or postdoc colleague. More info here michielslab.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/jo…

Want to learn about Antibiotics: Tolerance Mechanisms, ABC Transporters and Bacterial Responses? Feel free to attend our mini-symposium on Feb 23 in Leuven (registration: tinyurl.com/yfk94jen)

Thrilled to announce our latest review article in collab. with Michiels lab, featured in Nat. Prod. Reports! We explore the power of Bacillus subtilis for uncovering and engineering novel #naturalproduct biosynthetic pathways.🦠🧬Read the full story here: bit.ly/49YzyhV

Online now: Protocol for assessing single-cell persister recovery kinetics and physiology in Escherichia coli using spectrophotometry dlvr.it/T5VG9h #protocol #starprotocols #cellpress

Delighted to see our work on evolutionary routes towards increased survival in the face of different antibiotic regimes published in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

Researchers at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research revealed the relationship between #ProteinAggregation and #BacterialDormancy, states during which bacteria are not susceptible to #antibiotics. 🧫 flanders.bio/news/new-study…

🔬 New research by Jan Michiels @LiselotDW Celien Bollen and colleagues (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) in Nature Communications shows how protein 'clumps' drive bacteria into a state of dormancy, with implications for antibiotic resistance. 👉 Read here vibbio.tech/4jx0JFY FWO KU Leuven

🥳 The province Vlaams-Brabant has invested in the innovative MicrobeSpotter project of Michiels lab (in collab with VIB, KU Leuven, imec and Comate) to develop a diagnostic platform, revolutionizing UTI treatment with faster diagnosis & reduced antibiotic use

The data was generated by 5 different people Lieze Agten Sang D. Nguyen, Nele Geerts, Laurence Van Moll and Laure Verstraete. It was fun to put this together with Philip Ruelens! Big thanks to everyone else involved and of course to my funding FWO