🌟 Happy Holidays 🌟 From groundbreaking scientific discoveries to inspiring moments of innovation, join us in celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ at VIB through our editor’s pick of the Top 10 Stories. vibbio.tech/3RqayrP

🚨 ECRs working on Natural Products 🚨 Join us for our annual 2-day symposium #CBNP17 on 4th– 5th July 2024. Running straight after Directing Biosynthesis (Birmingham) #DBVII. Sponsored by UK Research and Innovation and @RSC_CBBG. Registration & info: warwick.ac.uk/naturalproducts.

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

New toy in the lab! We are very excited to work with @Nuclera’s eProtein Discovery system: an automated benchtop platform for rapid access to soluble, active & purifiable proteins of interest! 🚀 Many thanks to VIB Tech Watch for making this possible.

📢PhD position available! Interested in advancing cancer treatment by engineering microbes to produce innovative protein-based chelators for radionuclide therapy? Apply below for this joint PhD position SCK CEN & our lab Biology | KU Leuven VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology 👉bit.ly/48maAaV

We are looking for a #BusinessDevelopment Manager at VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology! This is your chance to transform scientific discoveries and innovations🔬into practical applications and impactful industry collaborations.🚀 Apply now! 👇 jobs.vib.be/j/73247/busine…

Many congratulations to Hans Gerstmans for being awarded a senior FWO postdoctoral fellowship!! 🥳👏 Looking forward to the collaboration with Lammertyn lab and Colinda Scheele! Biology | KU Leuven VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology CCB_VIB_KUL BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven

Excited to speak at the 15th Global Industrial Microbiology Congress & Metabolic Engineering Summit in Shanghai this fall. Abstract submissions are still open! gim-mes2024.org 🌎🦠🧬

Throwback to our VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology retreat with RaesLab, Michiels lab, Masschelein Lab, Sibylle Vonesch and Kevin Verstrepen's team at the Antwerp Zoo!

🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess review by Joleen Masschelein & co Masschelein Lab VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology in our latest issue on using Bacillus subtilis as a host for natural product discovery & engineering of biosynthetic gene clusters Find it in full below👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

📢 Fascinated by microbial life? Want to join one of our teams VIB and KU Leuven as a management assistant, bioinformatician or postdoc? Our center is hiring! Check out cfm.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/jo…

📢 Our lab is hiring! Interested in harnessing the biosynthetic potential of beneficial, human-associated bacteria? We're looking for a passionate #postdoc to engineer gut bacteria for local, in vivo disease detection and drug delivery. Apply now! 👇bit.ly/3T38qIi

Masschelein Lab is in Leiden for a PhD defence from LeidenBiology and therefore we can enjoy her talk on lipid antibiotics

PhD defense of Nataliia Machushynets has started LeidenBiology Leiden University. thanks to Masschelein Lab Mark liles Marnix Medema Akos T. Kovacs daniel rozen Herman Spaink for being on the committee and to felliw promotor Nathaniel Martin

We're very proud of Luka Van den Berghe for securing an #FWO PhD fellowship! 🎉👏 As the 2022 iGEM KU Leuven Team Leader, Luka was recently invited to write a paper on live biotherapeutics for anticancer therapy in the iGEM competition. Read more here! 👉bit.ly/3zNeE8I

🔬 Peptides make powerful drugs, but they are difficult to synthesize. So, J&J Innovative Medicine teamed up with VIB scientists (Masschelein Lab VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) to harness the power of bacteria! 👉 Read here vibbio.tech/3CUm0bB