📢 Awarding the best graphical abstracts for upcoming MICROB-PREDICT papers: 🏆🥇🥳 ..and the winners are... Lore van Espen from KU Leuven Marisa Keller from Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg moved to BlueSky and Alexandra Philipps from UCL Congratulations! Well deserved! Lore Van Espen Marisa Isabell Keller Prof Rajiv Jalan

New review out🎺🎉 Journal of Hepatology O pportunities for omics biomarkers M icrobiome to liver axis I mportant barriers C linical implementation S uccesful translation to clinics Maja Thiele Aleksander Krag Stine Johansen Lili Niu 🔗 journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-…

Excited to announce that #ViBioM2024 will be live streamed! Free access for all non-industry professionals. Registration deadline: 24 May 2024 Don't miss out on this exclusive opportunity to join us virtually. #Livestream evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibiom2…

I am so happy to be part of this research and present it! Looking forward to #ESCMIDGlobal #ECCMID24 🥳 If you are wondering what is in the air, your place is Hall B on the 30th of April, 8.30 🤠

Omics technologies will revolutionize liver biomarkers 🪄🔮 in 5 yrs clinical use of multiplex NILTs w. proteins-lipids-metabolites-microbiome-DNA-RNA 🧙‍♀️Main barrier? Regulatory approval - learn from Fibroscan, ELF, PROC3 🔮A look into the crystal ball: journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-…

It was an honor to host the #ViBioM2024 meeting in #Leuven @ the #RegaInsitute the last 3 days! Great science @ the interface of #Virology & #Bioinformatics! Fantastic to welcome old friends and make new ones! Hope to see you all again in Lisbon @ #ViBioM2025 🦠 🖥️

Thanks #MaxBrol ! I wish I could have been there with you at #EASLcongress ! Say hi to the entire MICROB-PREDICT bunch! ❤️

It has taken us a while to deliver this ba”bee” about #viruses in Belgian #honeybees and their association with #winterloss! Great collaboration between #KULeuven & #UGent & @DirkDeGraag & #EPILOBEE Ward D

Our third annual symposium is slowly getting closer! Abstracts due by August 1st! Come join us in Brussels 😎

Evidence that #viruses of #nematodes interact with the human immune system, potentially influencing disease outcome. Great collaboration between LSTM KU Leuven UAntwerpen Lander Deconinck Shannon Quek amber hadermann Robert Colebunders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39232205/

🪱🦠 Parasitaire rondwormen, die zowel mens als dier kunnen infecteren, dragen virussen met zich mee die op hun beurt interageren met het menselijk immuunsysteem. #kuleuven-viroloog Jelle Matthijnssens werkte mee aan de studie Nature Microbiology 👇 bit.ly/4dWBSbs

Mark your calendars for next year Sep 12th in Ghent!

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨 We're excited to announce #ViBioM2025, the International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting, happening 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Stay tuned for further details: evbc.uni-jena.de/vibiom2025/ #VirusBioinformatics

Examining the healthy human microbiome concept Nature Reviews Microbiology by Raphaela Joos et al from Prof Paul Ross Joel Dore Paul Cotter @colinhillucc @BEDutilh @Thuls_M Molecular Systems Physiology Group Tine Rask Licht Jelle Matthijnssens Pauline Scanlan Leo Lahti Dr Trevor Lawley nature.com/articles/s4157…

🚨 #PhDPosition Opportunity Alert 🚨 Join the Matthijnssens-lab KU Leuven to explore the early-life #virome dynamics and their impact on immunity in infants from Ghana & Zambia! 🌍🧬 📅 Start: June 2025 🔗 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… #microbiome #bioinformatics #phage #NGS

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 How did the #COVID_19 pandemic impact #rotavirus epidemiology in Belgium? Read all about it in our latest paper in Eurosurveillance : eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280… Mustafa Karatas Elke Wollants Marc Van Ranst

Check out our latest paper on how #wastewater can be used to track animal and #zoonotic #viruses in urban settings! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40318358/

💩🦠 Happy to present our paper on the engraftment of the enteric #virome in #UC patients receiving an #FMT-> temporal (~5 weeks) virome shift towards the healthy donor, primarily driven by #microviruses. Severine Vermeire RaesLab pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40371968/

Congratulations Severine Vermeire! The first female rector of the Sam Van Campenhout!

🚨 New paper in Eurosurveillance - Mustafa Karatas We used shotgun metagenomics on indoor air in a Belgian daycare to track respiratory, enteric & skin viruses. 👉 40/42 samples contained human viruses—even when kids seemed healthy! 📄 Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41000028/