Masschelein Lab
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Engineering Microbes for Drug Discovery & Lead Optimization | Exploring the Biosynthetic Creativity of Microorganisms @BiologyKULeuven @VIB_microbes
Leuven, Belgium
Joined September 2016
Our lab is moving to another platform. You can now find us here! 🚚👇
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We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in dissolved organic molecules! https://t.co/orCCyZhzeh
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🔬 Peptides make powerful drugs, but they are difficult to synthesize. So, @JNJInnovMed teamed up with VIB scientists (@Masschelein_Lab @VIB_microbes) to harness the power of bacteria! 👉 Read here https://t.co/FCnoz2CvUl
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We're very proud of Luka Van den Berghe for securing an #FWO PhD fellowship! 🎉👏 As the 2022 @iGEM_KULeuven Team Leader, Luka was recently invited to write a paper on live biotherapeutics for anticancer therapy in the iGEM competition. Read more here! 👉 https://t.co/FYFIcnP7Vh
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PhD defense of Nataliia Machushynets has started @LeidenBiology @LeidenU. thanks to @Masschelein_Lab Mark liles @marnixmedema @EvolvedBiofilm @derozenleiden @SpainkHerman for being on the committee and to felliw promotor @NatMart_Chembio
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@Masschelein_Lab is in Leiden for a PhD defence from @LeidenBiology and therefore we can enjoy her talk on lipid antibiotics
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📢 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! 👇 https://t.co/5L7MgtiGHL
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📢 Fascinated by microbial life? Want to join one of our teams @VIBLifeSciences and @KU_Leuven as a management assistant, bioinformatician or postdoc? Our center is hiring! Check out
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🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess review by Joleen Masschelein & co @Masschelein_Lab @VIB_microbes 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👇 https://t.co/vztZlS6o6v
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Covering: up to October 2023 Many bioactive natural products are synthesized by microorganisms that are either difficult or impossible to cultivate under laboratory conditions, or that produce only...
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Throwback to our @VIB_microbes retreat with @RaesLab, @LabMichiels, @Masschelein_Lab, @SibylleVonesch and @KevinVerstrepen's team at the Antwerp Zoo!
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Excited to speak at the 15th Global Industrial Microbiology Congress & Metabolic Engineering Summit in Shanghai this fall. Abstract submissions are still open! https://t.co/33zYLdxMKB 🌎🦠🧬
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Many congratulations to @HansGerstmans for being awarded a senior @FWOVlaanderen postdoctoral fellowship!! 🥳👏 Looking forward to the collaboration with @lammertyn_lab and @ColindaScheele! @BiologyKULeuven @VIB_microbes @vib_ccb @biosystkuleuven
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Thrilled to announce our latest review article in collab. with @LabMichiels, featured in @NatProdReports! We explore the power of Bacillus subtilis for uncovering and engineering novel #naturalproduct biosynthetic pathways.🦠🧬Read the full story here:
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Covering: up to October 2023 Many bioactive natural products are synthesized by microorganisms that are either difficult or impossible to cultivate under laboratory conditions, or that produce only...
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🚨 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 @UKRI_News and @RSC_CBBG. Registration & info: https://t.co/jJzfhgA2FC.
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We are looking for a #BusinessDevelopment Manager at @VIB_microbes! This is your chance to transform scientific discoveries and innovations🔬into practical applications and impactful industry collaborations.🚀 Apply now! 👇 https://t.co/NMwPONutLT
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📢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 @SCKCEN & our lab @BiologyKULeuven @VIB_microbes 👉 https://t.co/c7hEFyGovD
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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 @VIBTechWatch for making this possible.
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Check out our back-to-back papers in @NatureComms today! 1st paper describes development of 16 orthogonal LoxPSym sites for easier genetic engineering - https://t.co/PLmtwuIQJH. 2nd paper shows use in promoter shuffling for metabolic pathway optimization https://t.co/Rajv9g9Bq1
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