Looking forward to visiting @nyuniversity today and meeting fellow @CellAtlas colleagues and presenting our work @theMehtaLab. Talk’s at 3:30 pm in CGSB 805 if anyone wants to stop by :) Huge thanks to @shhuang1 for the invitation!

In our recent work @PlantBiotechJ we show that the 5´UTR of a gene can be edited for improved trait in potato #lowacrylamid. Fruitful collaboration with CRA-W and Max Rubner-Institut. #EAPR14 #CRISPR https://t.co/60T1LhEYHS

🌅Delighted to share a paper that spanned the start of not one but TWO labs, now out in @ScienceAdvances. With @LabUhrig we discovered that plants sense the duration of TWILIGHT via their clock genes LHY/CCA1! A 🧵on what this really means: https://t.co/Mevo5CZ8hs

Yesterday, we turned off the lights in our university greenhouse. Multiple generations of students have conducted their experiments here. Now, we’re preparing for a new chapter and look forward to the opening of our new greenhouse in 2025! #Greenhouse #NewBeginnings

Delighted to share that the lab was awarded a @VLAIO_be agriculture grant with @bramvandepoel @InagroBeitem @PGroenteteelt @pcsierteelt and PC Hoogstraten! Looking forward to working with new collaborators! https://t.co/ck3ApjvXtY

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: https://t.co/V63xhKtjPo @lab_php @CropBioLeuven @LeuvenPlantInst @biosystkuleuven

Our new paper in Plant Physiology reveals how "Ethylene inhibits photosynthesis via temporally distinct responses in tomato plants" @LeuvenPlantInst @CropBioLeuven @biosystkuleuven

[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2024-01-15 15:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Devang Mehta @drdevangm (Assistant Professor, Plant Science Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium) Title：Closing gaps in plant chronobiology: from genome to proteome and from molecules to future geographies

🚨We're HIRING! A fully-funded 4-year PhD position developing & studying how the plant circadian clock works and how this complex protein network will change under future agricultural climate scenarios! Apply Here: https://t.co/i0Nl4VeE5K

The plant sensor work of the @bramvandepoel lab featured on the KU Leuven homepage. PhD student Batist Geldhof developped a new sensor for capturing plant motion to detect plant stress. Thanks to @FWOVlaanderen @biosystkuleuven

A new academic year, a new crew! I am happy to be surrounded by so many talented master students, PhD's, postdocs and a great lab-tech! Let's discover together! @CropBioLeuven @biosystkuleuven @LeuvenPlantInst @KU_Leuven

💡We're hiring! A 4-year funded PhD position on developing & using interaction proteomics tools to study transcriptional regulation in the plant circadian clock! #plantscijobs Please apply here: https://t.co/fZHrQgNsSv (no citizenship requirements, Master's degree required)

Our research and advocacy for enabling the use of #NGTs #CRISPR in EU agriculture was profiled on @ORF yesterday. (🇩🇪 audio) Many thanks for the opportunity (and for giving us the last word🙂) https://t.co/CL5KkgxTsg

@hv_lab from @CropBioLeuven @biosystkuleuven @LeuvenPlantInst @KU_Leuven just gave a lecture at @sithitb in Indonesia. A very nice one and very well received by the students. We thank you very much, Prof. Vanderschuren. https://t.co/cwuHKD4rfI

A new chance for genome editing in Europe https://t.co/qRGTaGR4As https://t.co/SsUli7Eg0O

Read our newest PI’s editorial on #NGT #CRISPR in European agriculture in this week’s issue of @Nature! @theMehtaLab writes, “Speeding up plant breeding is an essential part of feeding the world in the face of accelerating climate change” https://t.co/XvYiwFIXqE

Today we’re delighted to host @drwelegba from @BNARI7 for a @LeuvenPlantInst special seminar! Dr. Elegba gave a powerful talk urging institutions in developed countries to “think globally, not just locally”.

Exciting to see our colleagues and alumni reconnect during the #VIBAlumni Series this evening on the eve of the #TRIC23. Thank you Gwen Swinnen @unil, Ward Decaestecker @Inari_Ag, Jenny Neukermans @KU_Leuven, & Nick Vangheluwe @euroseedsEU for your excellent contributions! 🙌

For those interested in a #PhDposition with @bramvandepoel on #agrivoltaics: https://t.co/iJik7OO20m. Join our team at @CropBioLeuven @biosystkuleuven @LeuvenPlantInst #agrisolar #APV #agrivoltaico

A massive thank you to @cspbscbv for recognizing my postdoctoral work, both in science & in research culture with the Carl Douglas Award! My lab is always going to be a member, so hope the society is ready for a Belgian contingent bearing 🍺 and 🍫at meetings for years to come!