VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology
@VIB_microbes
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➡️ https://t.co/BfdQ9xVUhP @VIBLifeSciences - @KU_Leuven Home of @Masschelein_Lab, @LabMichiels, @RaesLab,@KevinVerstrepen,@SibylleVonesch, @sammy_pontrelli
Leuven, Belgium
Joined May 2018
🎉 Congratulations to Luca Tiraboschi on being awarded an @EMBO scientific exchange grant, joining the group of @SibylleVonesch to collaborate on developing novel gene editing techniques! (@KU_Leuven , @VIBLifeSciences)
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🚀📄The @KevinVerstrepen lab is making the most of summer—another paper published! In this one, Sasha and the team managed to valorize a byproduct stream in bioethanol fermentation, laying the groundwork toward sustainable, high-value bioproduction. 👇 https://t.co/hMfwiwKuMo
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3-Methyl-1-butanol (3MB) is a promising renewable solvent, drop-in fuel, and precursor for various industrial products, including flavors, fragrances, and surfactants. Due to the myriad of intertwi...
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🚨 We're hiring at the @SibylleVonesch lab! Excited about CRISPR technology development, HT genetic screens, and exploring fundamental questions in genetics? Apply here! 🔬 Postdoctoral Researcher https://t.co/HdtKdO8B0M 🧪 Research Technician https://t.co/Z6Edbp4L2P
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About the lab Research at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology (CfM) aims to increase our basic understanding of microbes and higher organisms, and translate this knowledge into envir
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📃🥳 Excited to share a new paper from the @KevinVerstrepen lab! Jolien et al highlight the power of combining biodiversity with precision metabolic engineering for sustainable microbial bioproduction. Read all about it 👇: https://t.co/UmGNcLGqHn....
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🎉 Proud to announce that Doris van Bergeijk, postdoctoral researcher at @RaesLab (@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences), has been awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @FWOVlaanderen, to study how the gut microbiome can shape our mental health. 🧠🦠
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Want to learn more about Joleen's research? Listen to @VIBLifeSciences's new podcast, Called to Science, where she talks about hunting microbes, being proactive, and the thrill of discovery. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Youtube! 🎧
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🥳 Huge congratulations to Prof. Joleen Masschelein ( @Masschelein_Lab, @VIBLifeSciences, @KU_Leuven) for being awarded the 2025 EFMC Academia Prize (@EuroMedChem)!
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Microbes are at the heart of a more sustainable future. #Microbes25 will showcase how they affect your food, health, and circular economy. 📢Join us in Leuven, 6-7 Nov 2025, and discover the key drivers of progress in applied #microbiology, https://t.co/peTR7WQTOr.
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🎉 Huge congratulations to @sammy_pontrelli for obtaining a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen Odysseus grant! 🎉 Sammy's research will investigate how microbes make "mistakes" to create accidental, long-lived molecules from carbon dioxide! Find out more here: https://t.co/O9xTYjSm2d
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Welcome to the lab of microbial metabolic and environmental interactions. We study how microbes capture carbon dioxide and sequester it in the ocean.
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🥳 The province @vlaams_brabant has invested in the innovative MicrobeSpotter project of @LabMichiels (in collab with @VIBLifeSciences, @KU_Leuven, @imec_int and Comate) to develop a diagnostic platform, revolutionizing UTI treatment with faster diagnosis & reduced antibiotic use
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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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We are a starting lab at @VIB_microbes in Belgium, a super collaborative, interdisciplinary, and motivated environment. Our lab also has its own mass specs and microbiology setups that you can use at your heart's delight!
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🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined @vib_microbes to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 👉 Read more: https://t.co/EATTbxqqWr
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🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined our center to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 🤩 Read more:
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Sammy Pontrelli joins the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology as group leader and KU Leuven as Assistant Professor
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Researchers at @VIB_microbes and @CBD_VIB revealed the relationship between #ProteinAggregation and #BacterialDormancy, states during which bacteria are not susceptible to #antibiotics. 🧫 https://t.co/ba0D3iKYew
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🔬 New research by @Janmichiels0 @LiselotDW @BollenCelien and colleagues (@VIB_microbes) in @NatureComms shows how protein 'clumps' drive bacteria into a state of dormancy, with implications for antibiotic resistance. 👉 Read here https://t.co/Z91cQEdGPD
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🎙️🎧 This month, the Verstrepen lab's research on non-alcoholic beers 🍺(@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences) has featured in 2 international podcasts (#BBCCrowdScience @BBCSounds and #DeNachtVan @NPORadio1)! Listen to them here: https://t.co/H0fhRWOXYP...
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📣The lab of @KevinVerstrepen is looking for an ✨executive admin✨to ensure that our center and lab keeps running strong 💪 Want to join a young, dynamic and international team of scientists and admins? See and apply here 👇 https://t.co/kKp2XoaUKG
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