Back-to-back recognition! 💪🏼 A huge shoutout to Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen Raes for once again making @clarivate.com global #HighlyCited2025 list! 🌍✨ @viblifesciences.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Tiny scientists in action! 🧫 At the #Kinderuniversiteit @uzleuven.bsky.social, kids explored bacteria on their hands, in their guts, and under the microscope! @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Ethical partnerships matter 🌎 Congrats to our colleague @rytito.bsky.social for this inspiring work with the Matsés Peoples from the Peruvian Amazon 🇵🇪 showing how culturally informed, trust-based collaboration can strengthen microbiome research 🧫✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

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

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...

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...

📄 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🧵

We are immensely proud of our postdoctoral researcher Doris van Bergeijk @dorisvanbergeijk.bsky.social for being awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social 🎉👏 Her hard work and dedication is truly inspiring. 🧠🦠 Huge congrats Doris! 💪🌟 @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

💩🦠 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/

🚨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

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

Upcoming seminar: 🎓Professor Jeroen Raes, Vice director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology 📢"Quantitative microbiome profiling in health and disease" 📅 4-5PM, Thurs 13 Feb 📍JCBC @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social @raeslab.org @vibmicrobes.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social 🧪

🚀 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

We must have been on the good list this year! Sinterklaas didn’t skip the Raes lab ! 🎅🎁 Everyone got a small treat! 🌟🍬 @vibmicrobes.bsky.social

A big congratulations to our incredible team at RaesLab! We’re excited to share that two of our colleagues, Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen, have been honored on the global #HighlyCited2024 researchers list by @Clarivate🤩🙌🏼 @viblifesciences.bsky.social clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Although I'm not a big fan of individual recognitions in science- collaboration and teamwork are the real driving forces- I'm honored to be recognised as #HighlyCited2024 by Clarivate. Grateful to all colleagues, mentors and collaborators who made this happen.