Great mix of talks from across all @viblifesciences.bsky.social research areas at our first-ever #VIBAIScienceDay. Sharing another mini photo dump while we digest lunch and gear up for more science this afternoon.

I really enjoyed being on the Called to Science podcast to talk about my journey as a scientist 🧑🏽‍🔬🧬 We discussed my passion for microbes, moving across countries, microbiology & sustainability (incl. HealthFerm), and finding purpose in science. 🎧 link below👇🏽 #Microbiology #SciencePodcast

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks” Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

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

GTDB release 10 based on RefSeq 226 (R10-RS226) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 732,475 genomes (22% increase) and has 143,6141 species clusters (37% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r226.

Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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...

Bacteria expressing an anti-tumor cytokine act as a potent cancer immunotherapy go.nature.com/4ettzUR rdcu.be/eBeA1

R.I.P. 🪦 Tesla @Mexico City

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal by @duhitasant.bsky.social et al from @timbarra.bsky.social with Tom Bell, @kayla-king.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

@skamrad.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social show xenobiotics impact growth of gut bacteria and their metabolic homeostasis by affecting amine metabolism ➡️ www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The paper is definitely worth a read—and if you're curious for a glimpse behind the scenes of how the story developed, don’t miss this short blog post by Anne and Jacobo. communities.springernature.com/posts/silent...

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

Great timing a couple of weeks ago where I got to present our work on the discovery of new phage DNA modifications and their implications for phage defence at #EESMicrobiology one hour after the paper came out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! Fantastic conference!

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Online now @ Cell is the yeast multicellular engineering paper from Fankang Meng - the fruits of his productive PhD in our group. He developed modular synthetic biology tools to bring multicellular behaviours to yeast - specific adhesion, juxtacrine signalling and more. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🚀 New ERC Classes video released! Thinking of applying to the open call for ERC Synergy grants? Learn how to apply, build your team, and prepare for the evaluation steps. ▶️ Watch the full video now 👉 youtu.be/qGKoTFqs8Eg 📥 Also new today: Info for #ERCSyG applicants 👉 europa.eu/!w7gPHV

If you're feeling low on science mojo (if you are not, read more), I recommend talking to a room of excited high schoolers/ undergraduates about science & its future. I was a vampire for hope & enthusiasm today in the Pathways program started by the late Beverly Torok-Storb @fredhutch.bsky.social

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

Big big congratulation @dorisvanbergeijk.bsky.social !!

🎉 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. 🧠🦠

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

#MVIF 39 recordings are now available! Huge thanks to Adeshile Oluwatosin for putting together all the talks, available on both platforms: @cassyni.bsky.social ▶️ cassyni.com/s/mvif-39 #YouTube ▶️ youtube.com/playlist?lis... Enjoy!

CRISPR-associated transposase variants with enhanced gene integration were generated via phage-assisted continuous evolution, enabling insertion of large DNA cargos at therapeutically relevant genomic sites in human cells without double-strand breaks. #NBThighlight www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In @nature.com we describe the use of scalable #proteinengineering & #machinelearning to predict millions of bespoke CRISPR enzymes, offering safer & more efficient genome editing tools 🧬🖥️ @rachelsilverstein9.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in CRISPR and gene editing? ✂️ 🧬 Join us for the upcoming course designed for PhD students, postdocs, and industry professionals eager to deepen their understanding of #CRISPR technologies and their applications in gene editing. Sign up here 👇🏽: training.vib.be/all-training...

Our @natrevimmunol.bsky.social review with @abhishekgarglab.bsky.social, @deadoc80.bsky.social and Kellie Smith is out! We attempt to integrate the data on CD8 T cell dysfunction into a new framework of hypofunctionality in cancer and chronic infections! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/2 New paper by our PhD student Sompot Antimanon, where he uses Pseudomonas putida as a biocatalyst for cinnamic acid production in a process that increase water use efficiency. Sompot reached a TRY of T=143 g/L, R= 2.25 g/L/h, and Y 1.50 g/g glc after 8 recycles. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our lab at the VIB Center for Microbiology/KU Leuven 🇧🇪 has as a fully funded PhD position at the interface of artificial intelligence 🤖 and microbiology 🧫 . Interested or know someone who might be? Check out the position here 👇🏽:

🚨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

Sweeteners are so common in food and drinks. New work expanding our knowledge base of sweetener-bacteria interactions 👇🏽. Kudos to @sonjablasche.bsky.social @indraroux.bsky.social and others from our lab

Interested in engineering streptomycetes? Struggling with existing genome engineering tools? Then check out our newest paper on CASCADE-Cas3 based genome engineering in streptomycetes! Some highlights below:

#gastrosky #liversky

What a wonderful paper!! Really clear results and extremely important research!! I will use it in my classes Congrats Thiago Gonçalves-Souza @natejsanders.bsky.social @jon-chase03.bsky.social @nickhaddad.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢Sarah Lebeer (@sarahlebeer.bsky.social) and colleagues at the Isala team call for a more comprehensive, global, and inclusive understanding of the #vaginal #microbiome, critically reflecting on the use of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in studies. Read the Opinion piece here: www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Yes! We need more of this 👇🏽

There are a few topics I could talk about for hours, CRISPR✨ is definitely one of them! I was invited to the podcast: ‘That’s a load of Science’ to talk about this. It was a lot of fun to dive into one of my favorite subjects. I had a great time recording this! youtu.be/afR7rPhMe8M

#StandUpForScience Science not silence!

We stood up for science in Seattle ✊🔬🧬🔭🥼🧪

Happy #InternationalWomensDay everyone! Now more important than ever.

🚀 New publication! We engineered a probiotic to produce indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), activating the AhR receptor. Injecting it into tumors of mice it improved survival & reprogrammed immunity #Microbiome #CancerResearch #syntheticbiology Link to publication👇🏽 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Termination of an existing contract, which passed through extensive peer and administrative review, without a justifiable cause? Illegal. Sue them. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ten Simple (Empirical) Rules for Writing Science journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Nieuwbouw M HKA wordt ankerpunt op Antwerpen-Zuid

Heterologous protein over-expression in E. coli is now woke because of 'inclusion bodies'

Starting my Bluesky adventure by highlighting a new paper from the lab!

See here for an exciting development in genome engineering for genetic code expansion and for understanding the pliability of components involved in protein translational termination - from the Isaacs Lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

REVIEW: Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release by Chris Voigt & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The previous (original) version of this article, including verboten words like 'equitable' and 'diversity', has now been restored on the website of ASM.