Engineering Microbes for Drug Discovery & Lead Optimization | Exploring the Biosynthetic Creativity of Microorganisms @BiologyKULeuven @VIB_microbes
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20 Nov 2024
Our lab is moving to another platform. You can now find us here! 🚚👇
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25 Nov 2024
🔬 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 vibbio.tech/3CUm0bB
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6 Oct 2024
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! 👉bit.ly/3zNeE8I
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5 Sep 2024
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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5 Sep 2024
@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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26 Aug 2024
📢 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! 👇bit.ly/3T38qIi
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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 cfm.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#…
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25 Jul 2024
🔓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👇
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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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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13 Jun 2024
Excited to speak at the 15th Global Industrial Microbiology Congress & Metabolic Engineering Summit in Shanghai this fall. Abstract submissions are still open! gim-mes2024.org 🌎🦠🧬
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16 May 2024
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: bit.ly/49YzyhV
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5 Feb 2024
🚨 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: warwick.ac.uk/naturalproduct….
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24 Feb 2024
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! 👇
jobs.vib.be/j/73247/business…
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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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16 Feb 2024
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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7 Feb 2024
Check out our back-to-back papers in @NatureComms today! 1st paper describes development of 16 orthogonal LoxPSym sites for easier genetic engineering - rdcu.be/dx2Yr. 2nd paper shows use in promoter shuffling for metabolic pathway optimization rdcu.be/dx20C
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26 Dec 2023
🌟 Happy Holidays 🌟
From groundbreaking scientific discoveries to inspiring moments of innovation, join us in celebrating 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ at VIB through our editor’s pick of the Top 10 Stories.
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