👉 #PhDdefense in the time of #coronavirus KULeuvenBioTeC+ scientist Valeria Angarano successfully defended on campus/online: Photodynamic #Inactivation of #Biofilms! Congrats!! 🥳 🎉 Procter & Gamble Joost Vennekens Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #phdchat #phdlife Academic Chatter™ #AcademicTwitter

👉 The day you are challenged by the “youngstars” in #PSE/#powdertechnology during #PhD prelim: 👍 Satya Satyajeet Bhonsale Great collaboration with @JanssenBelgium Alain Collas & co, with support of VLAIO Baekeland Grant 🙏 Arenberg Doc School @maria_papathan Colin Hare @rschenkendorf

“And from now on, thou shall be rightfully addressed as Doctor Satyajeet Bhonsale” 🎉👨🏽‍🎓 #COVID19-proof #PhD defense at KULeuvenBioTeC+ Arenberg Doc School #phdlife #phdchat Many thanks Dries Telen Colin Hare @rschenkendorf @maria_papathan Alain Collas et al.! VLAIO @JanssenBelgium

The field of nutritional psychiatry is a hot area of research nowadays. @FeliceJacka, Micr Obesity, John F. Cryan & colleagues update the biological mechanisms of action of diet and depression in which gut microbes can play a pivotal role ow.ly/mGeL30rnIKZ

👉 Dora Akritidou, PhD 👉 KULeuvenBioTeC+

We join our Greek team members and all friends celebrating this historic day for #Greece: 200 years independence! Χρόνια Πολλά σε όλες και όλους! #1821ελλας2021 #χρονιαπολλα #200χρονια #GreekIndependenceDay #Greece200years Georgina Zimbitas @SGoulopoulou Maria Klapa Niki Loverdou

👉 Did it rain on this milestone day? Must be #Belgium 🇧🇪👇

Happy birthday Jan FM Van Impe from all of us at KULeuvenBioTeC+!!! 🎂🥂 Seems the surprise was highly appreciated 😊

When your supervisor Jan FM Van Impe appreciates your "greek" needs for a #freddoespresso, but you need to be a bit more convincing. KULeuvenBioTeC+

👉 Most probably the largest delegation from a single research team at #EFFoST2021: 7 KULeuvenBioTeC+ 🇧🇪 members present recent results in - #sustainable bioproduction - human gut #microbiota - bioprocess #optimization, ànd - our unique European MSc in #FoodSystems Engineering!

👉 The moment you realize that your #PhD mentor Jan FM Van Impe is checking on you(r poster) at #EFFoST2021 🤣 “Sweet protein #bioproduction: An approach towards cellular agriculture” #thaumatin #Pichiapastoris #bioreactors #sustainable EFFoST IUFoST Jewel Ann Joseph

👉 How can CAFE - Computer Aided Food Engineering help to produce “The Perfect Pintje” 🍺? 👍 Great talk by KULeuvenBioTeC+ postdoc Satyajeet Bhonsale in #EFFoST2021 Session Food Industry 4.0: #DataAnalytics #DataScience #datamining & model based multiobjective #optimization EFFoST

👉 #PhD scientist Dora Akritidou, PhD presenting her latest results of KULeuvenBioTeC+ #PSE4GUT project: #PSE Process Systems Engineering approach to better understand human digestion and the interplay gut microbiota/foodborne pathogens! Stimulating discussions at #EFFoST2021 👏

That #Epiphany/#Theophany team members start returning after the break: no need to make a choice, we got both 😋🙏 (“Terkenlis” patisseries founded in 1948 and from that time on considered a reference in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 Dora Akritidou, PhD) (Homemade 🍫 cake 🇵🇱 MonikaPolanska)

Our 🇺🇦 colleague D needs help, NOW: family stuck in #Kyiv #Kiev hiding in a #shelter. While grandmother keeps an eye on kids, their mother is queuing upstairs for food. Pictures from today… 😞 Help us KU Leuven to get his family here asap 🙏 #UkraineWar #UkraineUnderAttack

Cry for HELP… Our desperate 🇺🇦 colleague D (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow KULeuvenBioTeC+) counts on KU Leuven to help evacuate his beloved family asap from their #shelter in #Kyiv… In these dark days, demonstrate KU Leuven is indeed truly international… 🙏 Luc Sels Peter Lievens

Clearly, #SpringIsComing at KU Leuven - Gent, Industrieel Ingenieur ☕️… … and yet difficult to fully enjoy… We stand with our team member Dmytro and his family 🇺🇦🇧🇪 #StandWithUkraine KULeuvenBioTeC+ KULeuvenBiFTec-FOOD4S KU Leuven

Always delighted, when my supervisor Jan FM Van Impe appreciates the Greek traditions 😊😝

#PhD mates, office mates (desk mates even), lab mates (bench mates even)… so, prelim defences on two subsequent days, obviously! ** G R E A T J O B, Jewel & Dora! ** Stay tuned for their public defences, during the 30 years BioTeC+ Symposium, November 16-17 2024 in Gent 🇧🇪

Join @ProDigest at #FutureFoodTech in London later this week to discuss with Massimo Marzorati and Dora Akritidou about how we can support the development of your products and ingredients. #microbiome #prebiotics #probiotics #synbiotics #postbiotics #alternativeproteins #DIAAS