Being a PI can be sometimes stressful, especially when projects are not immediately granted. However, having a very nice group with amazing people makes up for a lot. I do think that they want me to relax a little bit more 😊

Extremely delighted to share our research into "engineering the engineer" which is now out 👨‍🔧🦠🌱 Efficient CRISPR-mediated base editing in Agrobacterium spp. pnas.org/content/118/2/… Very grateful to all co-authors 😁 Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈

Together with my first PhD student Savio Rodrigues and his co-supervisor Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social we aimed at optimizing the generation of #Agrobacterium mutants in order to study their interaction with plants. So happy to see our work being published. pnas.org/content/118/2/…

Honored to be part of a new KU Leuven Institute: the Leuven Plant Institute. We combine the power of fundamental and applied plant, ecological and agricultural research to combat the challenges of the future using plant-based solutions.

Open post-doc position in the Panstruga lab at RWTH Aachen #postdocjobs : bio1.rwth-aachen.de/PlantMolCellBi… ! Apply if you're excited about the cell biology in plant-pathogen interactions! The position involves teaching (also in German). Great lab, colleagues, and environment!

Please join us at the online Agrobacterium 2021 meeting which will be organized by Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social @GoossensLabVIB and Hans Rediers on 11-12 October 2021

Eagerly looking forward towards your talk @GoossensLabVIB 😃 Very curious and excited 😄

We had a very fruitful first day of our writing retreat. Tomorrow we’ll finish those manuscripts 😀PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈

Today we also celebrated my lab technician’s 40th year KU Leuven. She helped me to start up the PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 5 years ago and she is still enthusiastically helping students, PhD students and postdocs with their experiments 🧫🔬🌱

Liese Vlasselaer presenting her recent PhD work on the microbiome of hydroponically grown lettuce upon infection with Phytophthora cryptogea miCROPe. Research in collaboration with PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 and Team PME&BIM. Proud supervisor 🥬

Here we go, looking forward to our 3-day workshop on cyclic lipopeptides from beneficial bacteria. All partners of the EOS FWO-FNRS Rhizoclip project will present their results FWO

Busy week PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈. Yijie Zhao 🐰 presented her work on strawberry and Botrytis at #ISC2022, Kilian Van Loocke presented his work on lettuce and biocontrol at SABB and Hèba Ibrahim presented her work on induced systemic resistance at the EOS FWO-FNRS workshop. Well done!

Image contest for #Rooting2023 ending soon. Maybe your image will be selected as cover for this meeting!

With cutting-edge omics technologies the @GoossensLabVIB uncovered an exciting novel function of the RolB protein. A very nice and rewarding collaboration which started six years ago when some labs joint forces to study the interaction between tomato and rhizogenic agrobacteria.

Want to learn more on how to control plant diseases with microorganisms. Visit PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven on 27/05 from 5 pm onwards in the #plantscience jungle Nerdland festival

🎉 Huge congrats to Savio Rodrigues for securing a prestigious FWO postdoctoral fellowship in collaboration with PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 and Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social . 🌱 Excited to see him dive further into the fascinating interaction between rhizogenic agrobacteria and Arabidopsis 🔬🧪

And now it’s the plant pathologists at #TRIC23 kicking it off with Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 KU Leuven Open Science Chair: Julia Bailey-Serres

Let’s start the Agrobacterium23 Conference I2BC Paris-Saclay with a great talk of Barbara De Coninck @Barbaraconinck from KU Leuven KU Leuven Plant Institute on the development of tools to unravel the interaction between rhizogenes agrobacteria and plant roots

NGTs can provide us with plants which are climate resilient, require reduced input of pesticides/fertilizers and/or possess higher nutritional value. The possibilities with NGTs are endless and can lead us to a green future! #GiveGenesAChance GeneSprout Initiative 🍀 Öko-Progressives Netzwerk e. V. @letsreplanet

My lab is recruiting a postdoc on an FWO/FNRS funded project. Interested in researching how secondary metabolites from beneficial bacteria trigger immune responses in plants? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs… PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven KU Leuven Plant Institute BIOSYSTEMS Department -KU Leuven