✨ Day two, another round of brilliant science at #Microbes25! The second poster session brought more exciting discoveries and thoughtful discussions. Huge kudos to all researchers from our six labs for sharing their research! @vibtrainconf.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

How do you find new antibiotics hidden in plain sight? 🔬🧩 At #Microbes25, Hanne Vande Capelle of @vibmicrobes.bsky.social shares how she is engineering and screening sactipeptides — underexplored RiPPs with big antimicrobial potential. 🎥 Watch her pitch! #Microbes25 #Biotech

What if yeast could make the solvents of the future? 🧫✨ At #Microbes25, Quinten Deparis of @vibmicrobes.bsky.social shares how he and his colleagues are reprogramming microbes to build a greener chemistry — blending enzyme engineering, AI, and sustainability. 🎥 Watch his pitch! #SynBio #Biotech

The start of the final plenary session of today #Microbes25 with a selected, beautiful talk by Fatima El Arnouki Belhaji (@masscheleinlab.bsky.social). She focused on charting the biosynthetic landscape and expanding the catalogue of bioactive specialized lipids. 📰 Read more here: lnkd.in/g_qqaJxg

✨ What a wonderful first poster session today at #Microbes25! Proud to see so many researchers from across our six labs showcasing their innovative and impactful science. @vibtrainconf.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social

🦠 Microbes are transforming our world — from sustainable foods to smart materials! At the 3rd #VIBconf on Emerging Applications of Microbes, we kick off with Colin Hill on bacteriophages & the microbiome. Tiny partnerships, huge impact. #Microbes25 #Microbiology #PhageBiology vibbio.tech/4hOqqBm

Final week to register for the #Microbes25 conference! 🚀 Our OC members are buzzing with excitement! Today, Prof. @masscheleinlab.bsky.social shares one of her top picks! ⏳ Final deadline to register is 23 Oct 2025 ! 🌐 vibbio.tech/Microbes25 @vibtrainconf.bsky.social

We are entering the final week to register for the #Microbes25 conference! 🚀 Our Organizing Committee members are already buzzing with excitement-and we asked them what they’re most looking forward to. A sneak peek at what’s in store! ⏳ Final deadline is 23 Oct 2025-don’t miss it! 🌐 lnkd.in/e2ywpSED

🍺 Explore the science of malting and brewing, take virtual tours of iconic Belgian breweries and learn from experts with our free online edX course! 📅 New run starts Nov 16 – perfect for students, professionals, or anyone passionate about brewing science. 🔗 Enroll now: www.edx.org/learn/beer/k...

Huge congratulations to our colleague @arnauvich.bsky.social for presenting his research on FODMAP restriction and gut microbiota in IBS patients at United European Gastroenterology Week 2025 in Berlin🇩🇪👏! #UEGWeek @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

Another great day at #UEGWeek 2025! 🎉Congratulations to our colleague Jorge Vazquez Castellanos for presenting his exciting work on microbial dysbiosis, inflammation, and the gut–brain axis in IBS at the United European Gastroenterology Week in Berlin🇩🇪 @myueg.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Joost and Laura on being awarded a @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social PhD fellowship! ✨ We wish them both a successful and inspiring PhD journey! 🔬 @verstrepenlab.bsky.social, @masscheleinlab.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, UGhent

🌍 Celebrating #InternationalMicroorganismDay with a spotlight on BIOPET 🐾🌱 — part of @viblifesciences.bsky.social Grand Challenges program. 🔬 Great to see the labs of @verstrepenlab.bsky.social and Sibylle Vonesch explore Yarrowia yeast to help create more sustainable pet food! 🔗 lnkd.in/g_qbUXbR

🥳 Congrats to Hans Gerstmans (@masscheleinlab, @viblifesciences, @kuleuvenuniversity) on receiving the EQT Foundation 2025 Women’s Health Grant to develop a bacterial biosensor targeting BRCA1/2 breast cancer! 🔗 eqtgroup.com/news/eqt-foundation-announces-2025-womens-health-grant-recipients

Proud to share our comprehensive literature review on application potential, chemical synthesis and microbial production of α-ketoglutaric acid @chemsocrev.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Exams = stress. 📚 Our new study shows that a probiotic strain (L. rhamnosus CNCM I-3690) modulated the gut microbiome during academic stress, with ties to lower anxiety. 🔗 Vázquez-Castellanos et al. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Interested in improving microbes for sustainable food and biofuel production? Or keen on studying evolution and gene regulation using yeast? 🚨 We are seeking two enthusiastic lab technicians to join our dynamic, international team! More info & to apply, here 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Calling all #Microbes25 enthusiasts, it’s time to show off your finest science. Do not leave it trapped in your lab. Submit your abstract by September 4 & have a chance to win the Nature Microbiology Poster Prize: vibbio.tech/3UQkrkN. @natmicrobiol.nature.com #MicrobialBiotech #MicrobialEcology

Want to attend #Microbes25, but travel costs are holding you back? Our travel grants are here to help, but the deadline is today. 🧳Join your colleagues by applying before it’s too late and attend without the financial stress: vibbio.tech/46z4Tco #MicrobialBiotech #microbes #MicrobialEcology

🎉 Congratulations to Luca Tiraboschi on being awarded an @embo.org scientific exchange grant, joining the group of Sibylle Vonesch to collaborate on developing novel gene editing techniques! (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social)

Want to join us at #Microbes25, but worried about travel costs? We’ve got you covered. Next week is your last chance to apply for a travel grant. Don’t let this opportunity slip away. 🛬Final boarding call for a front row seat, apply here: vibbio.tech/40Rno8b #MicrobialBiotech #microbes #VIBConf

🚀📄 Our 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. Read all about it here👇: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics data analysis - Micro & molecular bio techniques are a plus! Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/119682/pos...

🚨 We're hiring at the Vonesch lab! Excited about CRISPR technology development, HT genetic screens, and exploring fundamental questions in genetics? Apply here! 🔬 Postdoctoral Researcher jobs.vib.be/j/117184/pos... 🧪 Research Technician jobs.vib.be/j/117186/res...

📃🥳 Excited to share our new paper! Jolien and colleagues highlight the power of combining biodiversity with precision metabolic engineering for sustainable microbial bioproduction. Read all about it 👇: microbialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #Kluyveromyces #LacticAcid #Bioplastics

📄 New collaborative publication: "Dietary convergence induces individual responses in faecal microbiome composition" Astrid Vermeulen et al., now in eGastroenterology. 🔗 egastroenterology.bmj.com/content/3/2/... 1/5🧵

🎉 Proud to announce that Doris van Bergeijk, postdoctoral researcher at @raeslab.org ( @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social), has been awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social, to study how the gut microbiome can shape our mental health. 🧠🦠

💩🦠 Happy to present our paper on the engraftment of the enteric #virome in #UC patients receiving an #FMT-> temporal (~5 weeks) virome shift towards the healthy donor, primarily driven by #microviruses. @daanjansen.bsky.social @raeslab.org pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40371968/

📃🥳 Proud to share the latest research from our lab! Yanmei and colleagues used high-throughput screening and parallel metabolic engineering to optimize S. cerevisiae chassis strains for the production of limonene 🍋. You can read all about it here 👇: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to welcome our new Agilent Revident Q-TOF! We’re developing new approaches combining mass spectrometry and enzyme assays to study microbial interactions and carbon sequestration. We're hiring postdocs — reach out if interested! pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our team! Info here www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Proud to share our latest work on constraint-based modeling in combination with Optknock to identify gene that improve C12 fatty acid production in E. coli rdcu.be/eljsg

🥳 Huge congratulations to Prof. Joleen Masschelein (@masscheleinlab.bsky.social, @viblifesciences.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) for being awarded the 2025 EFMC Academia Prize!

🦠 Microbes are everywhere and changing the world. The 3rd edition of #Microbes25 is here for it. From the lab to real-world impact, don’t miss the opportunity to explore the latest in #microbiology. Join us in Leuven, Nov 6-7, 2025, vibbio.tech/4lGy968 #MicrobialBiotech #microbes #MicrobialEcology

🚨PhD position in AI in Microbiology! We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research. 🌍 More info & apply: jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social

🎉 Huge congratulations to @sammy-pontrelli.bsky.social for obtaining a prestigious FWO Odysseus grant! 🎉 Sammy's research will investigate how microbes make "mistakes" to create accidental, long-lived molecules from carbon dioxide! Find out more here: pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

🥳 The province Vlaams-Brabant has invested in the innovative MicrobeSpotter project of @michielslab.bsky.social (in collab with @viblifesciences.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, Imec and Comate) aiming to revolutionize UTI treatment with faster diagnosis & reduced antibiotic use!

We're a starting lab at KU Leuven and VIB (@vibmicrobes.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social) with our own mass specs and microbiology setups that you can use at your heart's delight! pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to work in Belgium to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in organic marine molecules! t.co/orCCyZhzeh

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬Requirements: - PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field - Expertise in omics - Strong publication record Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

🌊 Marine microbes can not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI Sammy Pontrelli joined our center (@viblifesciences.bsky.social, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) to unravel these microbes' secrets. 🤩 Read more: prez.ly/xCcd

Thrilled to start our Bluesky journey by sharing this exciting work on mapping of antibiotic cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity @typaslab.bsky.social @nazgulsakenova.bsky.social rdcu.be/d2gwr

Proud to present our latest model of aggregation-induced dormancy, published in #NatureComms @liselotdewachter.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7EcI

🔬 New research by @michielslab.bsky.social @liselotdewachter.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social in @naturecomms.bsky.social shows how protein 'clumps' drive bacteria into a state of dormancy, with implications for antibiotic resistance. ➡️ Read here vibbio.tech/40Qxc2M 🙌 FWO Vlaanderen - KU Leuven

🍺 This month, the Verstrepen lab has been featured in 2 international podcasts on their non-alcoholic beer research! ✨ Listen to them here: cfm.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

📣We are looking for an ✨executive admin✨to ensure that our center (@vibmicrobes.bsky.social) and lab keeps running strong 💪 Want to join a young, dynamic and international team of scientists and admins? See and apply here 👇 jobs.vib.be/j/100273/man...

🚀 Today is the launch of the exciting #PerPrevCID project, in which the @raeslab.org is collaborating! Its mission is to optimise patient outcomes for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Curious to know more? 🔗 www.perprev-cid.eu #EUfunded #RA #IBD

🚨 We're hiring a postdoc! 🚨 Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease. 🔬 Requirements: PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field Expertise in omics Strong publication record jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post... Apply now! 🌟 @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

💼 Our team at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and @viblifesciences.bsky.social keeps expanding! We are looking to recruit an executive admin to ensure that our Center and labs keep running strong! 💪 Want to know more? See and apply here 👇 jobs.vib.be/j/92784/mana...

Excited to share our study led by @SakenovaNazgul! We used chemical genetics to identify and understand cross-resistance & collateral-sensitivity (CS) between antibiotics and reduced AMR development with CS drug pairs @embl.org with @camille_goemans @EPFL_en www.nature.com/articles/s41...