Assistant professor @UAntwerpen addressing urban health and biodiversity challenges through microbiome-based solutions
Joined February 2018
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Irina Spacova retweeted
📢 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED!!
There will be no further extensions, so if you would like to share with us your emerging microbial technology, please submit your abstract via emt2025.ugent.be/en/abstract…
⚠️ Submission is possible until the 14th February 2025.
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Irina Spacova retweeted
REGISTRATION COST: 0 €!!
We are thrilled to announce that the Emerging Microbial Technologies conference 2025 would be for free!!!
Registrations is still needed, and will open on 1st February 2025.
Remember to also submit your abstracts before 31st January 😉
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22 Oct 2024
Curious why #vitamin B2 is important for #women and how we can use vitamin-producing #microorganisms to promote #health? Check out our newest review in @Nature_NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes!
19 Oct 2024
New publication from @Isala_UAntwerp team funded by @ERC_Research & @FWOVlaanderen - #Riboflavin or #vitaminB2 for #womenshealth and emerging #microbiome strategies | npj Biofilms and Microbiomes @carolinedricot @isabelerreygers nature.com/articles/s41522-0…
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19 Sep 2024
Presenting at #ELM2024 on our collaborative research on antiviral microbial therapeutics and their modification with @SarahLebeer @ShrikrishnanS @ilkedeboeck @VanTenteIlke @marcblanch94
@UAntwerpen @Leibniz_INM. There is a bright future in engineering bacteria for human health!
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Exciting news🚨‼️
The Gregor Reid Award is now open for applications from eligible Outstanding Scholars in Developing Nations! The award includes a speaker spot at the 2025 ISAPP meeting and a $1500 cash prize 🙌
Deadline: 10th of November 2024.
isappscience.org/about/grego…
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Irina Spacova retweeted
31 Aug 2024
Please share with your networks. #africanmicrobiomes for #globalhealth Be part of this #transformative journey in microbiome research. Register today: rb.gy/gy6h9m
@gatesfoundation @GIFT_for_Africa @SciforAfrica @KEMRI_Kenya @UCTIDM @DTHF_SA @CAPRISAOfficial
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17 Aug 2024
🚀 Our team @UAntwerpen is excited to launch the BUGS #citizenscience project! With Agustina Santullo, @RoelandSamson, @_Wenke_, @C_Allonsius, Stijn Verhulst and others, we explore people's interactions with #urbangreen and how #microbes from urban parks benefit human #health 🌿
Welkom bij het burgerwetenschapsproject BUGS gelanceerd door de Universiteit Antwerpen met de steun van IMPETUS! Volg ons en kijk op onze website om op de hoogte te blijven van onze aankomende activiteiten en meer te leren over stedelijk groen en de gezondheidsvoordelen ervan!
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Irina Spacova retweeted
1 Aug 2024
Proud to see our paper on ‘Host and environmental factors shape upper airway microbiota and respiratory health across the human lifespan’ publishes today in @CellCellPress
doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.…
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13 May 2024
Sea spray aerosols could stimulate your immune cells! Find out more about the potential immune pathways in our publication in @SciTotEnv doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.… with @itsyunmeng, @MaartenDeRijcke, @SarahLebeer, @MDekeukeleire, @BoonUGent, @jaasselm & @JanssenColin
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Irina Spacova retweeted
30 Apr 2024
Are you interested in nature and mental health and eager to pursue a PhD on this topic? @ItaTrigueroMas has an exciting opportunity to do a fully funded PhD with the University of Barcelona! 🌳🫶👩🎓
➡️webs.uab.cat/touch/jobs/a-tr…
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Irina Spacova retweeted
24 Apr 2024
@UAntwerpen zoekt 1.000 vrouwen voor vagina-onderzoek
vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/04/24/… @Isala_UAntwerp Check isala.be voor de inschrijving
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Irina Spacova retweeted
24 Apr 2024
🌟BIG NEWS!🌟 The Isala train is back on track! We are looking for 1000 women to participate in groundbreaking research on women’s health! Head to the Isala website and register to write history together! isala.be/en/
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Irina Spacova retweeted
13 Mar 2024
Join us next week with @Irina_Spacova and @_Wenke_ to discover the microbial diversity in school playgrounds and its impact on children's health. Registration is free but essential: ebi.ac.uk/training/events/mi… #datascience #lifesciences #bioinformatics #microbiology #metagenomics
ALT Graphics image showing webinar at EMBL-EBI about Microbial biodiversity at schools and its link with children’s health. The webinar will run on 20 March 2024 at 15:30 GMT. The speakers are Irina Spacova and Wenke Smets.
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Irina Spacova retweeted
14 Mar 2024
First achievement presenting the project in the frame of the @FWOVlaanderen Frank De Winne PhD at @UAntwerpen, carried out at @SCKCEN, in collaboration with @RosaBiorosa, @AriannaMazzoli, @Irina_Spacova, @NatalieLeys, @SarahLebeer and Felice Mastroleo.
doi.org/10.14293/P2199-8442.…
Congratulations to the winners of the "Best Poster Award" & "Best Talk Award" Hanne Hendrix, Lene Bens & Mart Sillen at #BSM2024.
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Irina Spacova retweeted
9 Mar 2024
Proud of all (joint) PhD students with a passion for microbiology presenting their work at the annual meeting of @MicrobioBel @itsyunmeng @IErreygers Gabriele @MDekeukeleire @VanTenteIlke @CauwenberghsE Brianne & Maline … @BirUantwerpen
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Irina Spacova retweeted
24 Feb 2024
⚠️JOB ALERT
Looking for an exiting opportunity to work in disease ecology as junior professor (10%) and senior postdoc (90%)? @UAntwerpen and @africamuseumbe are looking for an experienced postdoc (biology/epidemiology) for a long-term study (8 years) of disease dynamics.
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Irina Spacova retweeted
23 Feb 2024
📢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
👉bit.ly/48maAaV
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Irina Spacova retweeted
16 Feb 2024
Our new @TrendsinBiotech paper: Probiotic Cities: #microbiome-integrated design for healthy urban ecosystems
Part of a wider Probiotic Cities project (creating healthy cities), this one focuses on the potential of microbial inoculants🦠🌳🏙️
Free access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1icEs…
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