Last week, we kicked off our VIB Technologies day with a great talk by Joris de Wit @synapse-lab.bsky.social on how the right tech stack makes tough neuroscience questions tractable. https://beakon.ghost.io/wiring-the-brain-one-synapse-at-a-time/

Spatial proteomics webinar 👇 On Wed 26 Nov, Evelien Van Hamme and Elina Kuznecova share practical lessons from running high-plex projects on MACSima. https://www.the-scientist.com/spatial-proteomics-for-all-insights-from-the-vib-core-facility-73583

Today we celebrate 20 years of the VIB NANOBODY® VHH Core! 🎂 🦙 🎉 From the pioneering VUB origins of single-domain camelid antibodies to today’s global impact, our VHH Core has grown into a reference center for nanobody discovery and application. ✨ @viblifesciences.bsky.social

What a day. 🙌 VIB Technologies Day 2025 brought our community together in Leuven around three things: technology, talent, teamwork. Thanks to every speaker, host, and participant!

Our job shadowing program is a peer-learning initiative that helps colleagues step into other cores, swap know-how, and tighten workflows across disciplines. 👉 Inspired to start shadowing someone in your field or line of work? https://beakon.ghost.io/slipping-into-anothers-lab-coat/

Called to Science Season 2 is out now and features Elina Kuznecova from the VIB Spatial Catalyst ✨ Tune in to hear her story, the realities of working in high-tech spatial biology, and practical advice for carving your own route in science. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gYKOhiWSqcsnwTTfyasHE

Our Tech Watch Core is testing Meteor Biotech's CosmoSort platform for precise cell and tissue isolation in spatial biology. CosmoSort uses an infrared laser to pick out defined cells or tissue regions while keeping their surroundings intact, combining imaging and cell retrieval in one workflow.

Greetings from Barcelona! 👋 🇪🇸 A big week for our core community: VIB Technologies core heads and staff joined peers at a Core for Life meeting in Barcelona to deepen collaboration across institutes and countries. See you all next week! 😎

Our Tech Watch Core is evaluating Syncell’s Microscoop® Mint platform for unbiased, subcellular spatial proteomics. Tech Watch scouts promising tools early, brings them in under controlled pilots, and determines where (and if) they add value for VIB scientists.

Proud that VIB Technologies helped power new @cmn-vib.bsky.social research: C9orf72 cases show muted microglial activation. Kudos to the Nucleomics Core (Lim, Kizi, Jolien, Stefaan) and BioImaging Core Ghent (Femke, Riet) for the tech lift. https://tinyurl.com/y6ufutu9 #pushingtheedgeofscience

On Monday, the VIB Flow Core Ghent celebrated the installation of its second BD FACSDiscover™ A8 with an event co-hosted with BD. 🙌 100+ registrants 🙌 Another milestone in our long-running partnership with BD 👉 Next up: hands-on A8 trainings every 4th Thursday at VIB Flow Core Ghent

Our mission is simple: to empower your research with top-tier instrumentation and expert support. To make sure we are investing our efforts where it truly matters, we’re running a new user survey. Check your inbox (or VIB Home) for the invitation or DM us and we’ll share the survey link directly.

Some proteins refuse to express. GNAT did... That's until the @masscheleinlab.bsky.social and @vibtechwatch.bsky.social trialed Nuclera’s cell-free microfluidics and cracked the conditions in days. Now the VIB Protein Core offers it as a routine service. https://tinyurl.com/yndte7xf

Cross-platform benchmarking in Paris: the @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social joined @thermofishersci.bsky.social at @pasteur.fr for BigFoot sorting and parallel runs on a BD FACSAria™ Fusion.

Had a fantastic time catching up with Lotte Carr from @stemcell.com! We definitely had some exciting collaboration possibilities simmering.! Can you guess what's “cooking up” next? 😉 Stay tuned! 👀 #CollaborationGoals#VIBTechnologies #stemcelltechnologies

We're growing the VIB.AI Machine Learning Unit, and we're hiring! 📌 Head of the Machine Learning Unit 📌 LLM Engineer Both roles are based in Leuven, Belgium, at the heart of a thriving research ecosystem. https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list Apply by October 31st.

Register for a hands-on, on-campus, microcredential on reproducible data analysis 👇 🗓️ 29 Sep: Reproducibility in Practice 🗓️ 9–10 Oct: Intro to Git & GitHub 🗓️ 17 Oct: Intro to HPC (VSC) 🗓️ 23-24 Oct: Docker & Apptainer 🗓️ 27-28 Nov: Nextflow https://tinyurl.com/5btw89wy

Out this week: another example of @viblifesciences.bsky.social’s cores powering discovery. LNPs cue dendritic cells via their cargo—not the lipids. The team also built a readout for “immunogenic” vs “homeostatic.” Thanks to Flow Core & Single-Cell Core. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116150

Have you met the HeliXcyto? 🤩 It’s the latest tool in the VIB Nanobody® VHH Core toolbox, and allows you to measure the binding kinetics of your fluorescently-labeled molecules directly on the surface of living cells.

Jochen took the stage at the Nordic Flow Cytometry Meeting 2025 in Copenhagen. 🎤 He showcased how we're enabling VIB researchers to push the boundaries of biomedical research by putting the most advanced tools in their hands. Like the BD Biosciences FACSDiscover™ S8 for example!

🎬 Lights, camera, nanobodies! Check out the new video from the VIB Nanobody® VHH Core. 👀 We take you behind the scenes of the Core's state-of-the-art lab, where tiny molecules become powerful tools for research and innovation. Full video via 👉 https://nanobodycore.sites.vib.be/

Small But Mighty: Single-domain antibodies (nanobodies) derived from llamas against SARS-CoV spike protein are potent & neutralizing 📷 Sieglinde De Cae et al @vibtechnologies.bsky.social VIB Ghent, Belgium in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @rooph.bsky.social

We had some fun with the new Nikon NSPARC detector: Supercharging your NSPARC time-lapse by processing with NIS Enhance.ai @vibtechnologies.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social @healthcare.nikon.com www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/en_EU/resour...

New collaborative work done with the Fordyce lab (Stanford), Lammertyn lab (KU Leuven), and the VIB Flow Core in Ghent. By merging droplet microfluidics with high-speed flow sorting, enabled by a 3D‑printed corkscrew mixer, the team processed over 1 million droplets at ~480 Hz with 89% accuracy. 👏

New paper by the Gevaert lab on a streamlined 96-well EV proteomics workflow, with support from experts at the VIB BioImaging Core Ghent and the Proteomics Core. 🙌 https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jev2.70103

Ever get that "chosen one" feeling? ⚡ The @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social is‬ now one of only 6 facilities in EMEA running the newly released BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Chorus v6.1 software. This means: ✅ More powerful sorting (4 & 6-way) ✅ Simplified spectral unmixing ✅ Enhanced data control & collaboration

Nikon celebrates 100 years of microscopy innovation! 🎉 Cheers from all of us at VIB Technologies, and a special shoutout to Nikky Corthout from the VIB Bioimaging Core Leuven for being featured in Nikon's centennial tribute. 🔬 #NikonMicroscopy100

The VIB Flow Core Ghent has officially inaugurated their brand-new BD FACSDiscover™ A8. 🎀 ✂️ 🎊 🥂 This cutting-edge cell analyzer combines high-throughput spectral capabilities with real-time single-cell imaging, unlocking new frontiers in spatial and morphological research.

We're at the European Conference on Drug Discovery: 👉 Dominique Audenaert (VIB Screening Core) gave a talk today on how target-based and phenotypic screening can accelerate early-stage drug discovery 👉 Sofie Coelus, our business dev manager, is at our booth connecting with researchers & innovators

With BD CellView™ Image Technology, the ‪vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social‬ helped Samantha Pretto et al. track SREBP2 nuclear translocation in T cells, revealing a key metabolic shift that boosts anti-tumor function. A powerful example of how imaging flow cytometry advances cancer research. 🙌

Ultrapotent SARS coronavirus-neutralizing single-domain antibodies that clamp the spike at its base: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60250-1 Exciting new research at VIB CMB, powered by 👇 ⚙️ VIB Nanobody® VHH Core ⚙️ VIB Flow Core Ghent ⚙️ VIB Bioimaging Core Ghent ⚙️ VIB Protein Core

The VIB Flow Core teams from Leuven & Ghent are diving deep into #CYTO2025! Catch their posters, talk & workshop today and tomorrow. Come say hi & talk science with them! ‪@vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social‬ @viblifesciences.bsky.social#CYTO2025

Jochen Lamote and Dharshini Raju from the @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social joined the BD Horizon meeting in Eindhoven last week, diving into spectral panel design, the S8 platform & new antibody previews. Need help updating your cytometry panels? The Flow Core’s got you covered.

Join Benjamin Pavie and Bob Asselbergh in Antwerp for two hands-on trainings in image analysis: 🗓️ 18 June 🔬 Basic Image Processing using Fiji https://lnkd.in/eiTpqukh 🗓️ 19 June 🔬 QuPath: Quantitative Pathology & Bioimage Analysis https://lnkd.in/eFPJrkBC

📸 Picture thread! Some snapshots of a great milestone and event with the @vibnucleomicscore.bsky.social today! 🎂

Hip hip hooray! 🥳 Celebrating 25 years @vibnucleomicscore.bsky.social today with a tech deep dive and a tour of the facility. @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Celebrations @viblifesciences.bsky.social! 25 years of sequencing at our beloved nucleomics core! Stefaan takes it away with a story back to the future. The core has been elemental to our @vibtechnologies.bsky.social program. Big congrats and looking forward to the next 25! #ngs #celebration

Knowledge for Growth is in full swing, and of course, VIB Technologies is right in the mix. Sofie Coelus, is present, alongside the entire VIB Business Development team. Together, we’re highlighting how technology, expertise, and collaboration drive innovation across research and industry.

Yesterday our Spatial Catalyst team gave a training on how to start with spatial technologies. It was such a pleasure to meet lots of curious minds! Thanks @vibtrainconf.bsky.social for your help and support in delivering this training 🙏 #SpatialOmics #SpatialTranscriptomics #VIB

Diving deep into the future at @synbiobeta.bsky.social! 🚀 Exploring the intersection of AI, design-based drug discovery, DNA synthesis, and automation—synthetic biology is evolving fast. Now, a powerhouse panel with DNA synthesis leaders @ansabio.bsky.social , @ElegenBio, and @twistbioscience.com 🧬

“We had to rethink everything: the samples, the systems, the scale.” The @vibnucleomicscore.bsky.social turns 25 this month! From microarrays to automation and sequencing at scale, it’s been quite a ride. 💡 Read the full story: http://prez.ly/N4kd 🎉 Join us May 19th to celebrate!

“Our job is to understand the technology. To know how to get the best out of our microscopes, so when a scientist brings us a question, we can design the best experiment.” Perfectly put by Erin Tranfield, who stars in the very first episode of Called to Science. https://tinyurl.com/mtdfdcdy

Now on stage, our colleague Toon Swings in a duo talk with @jancools.bsky.social on the Tapestry technology of @missionbio.bsky.social! Truly a collaborative succes story between our Tech Watch team and the Cools lab @vibtechnologies.bsky.social.

🌟 A very special #FluorescentFriday this week featuring the winners of the annual VIB Bioimaging Core competition! 🤩 🔬 #neuroscience #microscopy #brain #bioimaging

⚡ This #TechnologyTuesday, we're being taken around the VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven with Bart Ghesquière, Camila Cologna and Pedro Magalhães! ✨ #metabolomics #proteomics #massspectrometry #biology #neuroscience #brain #research www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZuA...

In Episode 4 of @viblifesciences.bsky.social's brand new podcast Called to Science, @steinaerts.bsky.social reflects on the realities of doing science. 🎧 tinyurl.com/2wzmvymm

Over the past months, the Data Core rolled out eLabJournal. Today, around 80 research groups at VIB are using the new platform. Huge shout-out to Liesbeth De Milde, Flora D'Anna, Boris Depoortere, and the rest of the team for leading this transformation and putting researchers' needs at the center.

How do we keep core facilities agile, impactful, and aligned with fast-moving scientific landscapes? The @eu-life.bsky.social Core Facilities Working Group, including Saskia Lippens and Geert Van Minnebruggen, discusses the power of change management. https://tinyurl.com/t5d42aam

🎉 The VIB Nucleomics Core is gearing up for a festive and insightful day next month. Meet three of the speakers for the 25th anniversary celebration on May 19th in Leuven! Reserve your seat 👉 https://nucleomicscore.sites.vib.be/en/25y-nucleomics-core

Jochen Lamote @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social and Lidiia Rumiantseva (VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven) put the @thermofishersci.bsky.social Bigfoot Spectral Cell Sorter to the test at the @crg.eu in Barcelona. ✅ super gentle 200 µm nozzle ✅ accurate 384-well sorting ✅ loads of custom options