Ready for a deep dive 🌊 in #IR? Follow the Frontiers Webinar on December 5 'Enabling sustainable crop protection with induced resistance in plants' including MoBi's Tina Kyndt ! forum.frontiersin.org/science-event-…

Join Prof Tina Kyndt for the next #FrontiersForum webinar to explore how induced resistance in plants can help reduce pesticide use, increase crop resilience, and boost crop quality. 👉 events.frontiersin.org/enabling-susta…

Sunny December morning in the EPIC/EDIT lab at the Proeftuinstraat 🥰 ❄️ ☀️ #research #PhDlife Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

🎉 On Monday was the public defence of Eva Degroote from the EPIC lab Tina Kyndt. "Novel protective agents against nematodes and their application in the field." Congratulations! 👏🎓

💪 PhD life at MoBi Tip-Filling Party at EDIT and EPIC labs earlier this week! 🎉🧪 What’s better than tackling this chore together with music and good vibes? 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 #LabLife #TeamSpirit #ScienceFun Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

The Glyco team collaborated with IRC - VIB/UGent to unravel the structure of Nictaba, a stress-inducible lectin from tobacco 🌿, uncovering how it binds GlcNAc-containing carbohydrates!🧬 academic.oup.com/glycob/article… #PlantScience #StructuralBiology #Lectin #Glycobiology Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

New Review provides a comprehensive exploration of effector–plant transcription factor dynamics! : bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

MoBi article alert! 🚨#plantresearch 🌱 Decoding Plant–Pathogen Interactions: A Comprehensive Exploration of #Effector–Plant Transcription Factor Dynamics By Hui Xiang_ugent Boris Stojilkovic Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent dx.doi.org/10.1111/mpp.70… in Molecular Plant Pathology

🌱 New publication by Els Van Damme GLYCO group: "The Future of Plant Lectinology: Advanced Technologies and Computational Tools" in BBA Advances! 📖 lnkd.in/eiqwKVrY Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent #lectins #plantresearch #glycobiology 🍬

Vacancy Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Gembloux! Full-time academic position in #plantgenetics to study plant genetic resources for supporting the agroecological transition #vacancy #plantresearch gembloux.uliege.be/upload/docs/ap…

March IPBO Online Café Series! ☕🌱 Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social and Steven Runo will discuss Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and gene editing to manage witchweed in crops 📅 Friday, March 7th, 2025 ⏰ 3:30 PM (EAT) 🖱️ Register: lnkd.in/gEMSBa3f

🌱✨New article by Karen De Kock and EPIC group on fennel byproduct extracts as novel bioprotectants is now published in the journal Plant Stress! Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent Read the article here 👉 lnkd.in/eW2Gg-Zn Thanks to FWO

#Agrobacterium 2025. The 45th American Crown Gall meeting and the 5th European Agrobacterium conference: registration and abstract submission is now open! #deadline May 1, 2025. Thanks to our sponsors we will select some students for travel grants. kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…

Excited to announce Patrick Shih UC Berkeley as an invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025! He’ll present on ‘Utilizing synthetic biology for engineering Agrobacterium.’ Recent work ShihLab: nature.com/articles/s4158…. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…"

Big news for #Agrobacterium2025 in Leuven, Belgium. Thanks to our amazing #sponsors, we’re able to offer travel awards for grad students + poster prizes! 🏆✈️ 📢 New abstract deadline: May 10 👉 kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2… #SciComm #PhDLife #Microbiology #PlantScience

Last week, Mobi explored how to use AI to transform our research and education 🤖. Great hands-on sessions by Evelyne De Caluwé and AnneMarie Leuridan that went far beyond ChatGPT 🚀✨ #PromptEngineering #VibeCoding #AITrends

Fantastic PhD defense of Dr. Henry Mwaka Henry Mwaka (Ph.D) on🧬 RNAi-based protection of East African Highland #banana 🍌 against nematodes 🪱 and weevils 🐛! Nice example of plant biotechnology and a great collaboration between Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent and NARO Uganda.

🎉 Great news from MoBi! Gerard Serrat Mayayo will start as an FWO SB doctoral fellow in Prof. Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social EDIT group, and Dylan Cool obtained a Baekeland mandate with Prof. Tina Kyndt (EPIC), Prof. Kris Audenaert & BASF Congrats — we look forward to 4 exciting years! 👏