VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology

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 with @camille_goemans @EPFL_en nature.com/articles/s4156…

🎉 Proud to announce that Doris van Bergeijk, postdoctoral researcher at @RaesLab (@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences), has been awarded a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship by @FWOVlaanderen, to study how the gut microbiome can shape our mental health. 🧠🦠

Microbes are at the heart of a more sustainable future. #Microbes25 will showcase how they affect your food, health, and circular economy. 📢Join us in Leuven, 6-7 Nov 2025, and discover the key drivers of progress in applied #microbiology, vibbio.tech/42KATH4.…

🎉 Huge congratulations to @sammy_pontrelli for obtaining a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen 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

We are searching for a postdoc in Marine Phytoplankton Metabolism and Carbon Storage! You'll get the chance to combine high-throughput metabolomics and enzymes to study how microbes naturally sequester atmospheric carbon in dissolved organic molecules! jobso.id/m9nq

Here's our lab website: pontrellilab.sites.vib.be/en

We are a starting lab at @VIB_microbes in Belgium, a super collaborative, interdisciplinary, and motivated environment. Our lab also has its own mass specs and microbiology setups that you can use at your heart's delight!

🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined @vib_microbes to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 👉 Read more: vibbio.tech/3QbzyTI

🌊 Marine microbes manage to not only capture carbon from the atmosphere but also integrate this carbon into stable, persistent molecules. New PI @sammy_pontrelli joined our center to unravel the secrets of those microbes. 🤩 Read more: prez.ly/xCcd

Researchers at @VIB_microbes and @CBD_VIB revealed the relationship between #ProteinAggregation and #BacterialDormancy, states during which bacteria are not susceptible to #antibiotics. 🧫 flanders.bio/news/new-study…

🔬 New research by @Janmichiels0 @LiselotDW @BollenCelien and colleagues (@VIB_microbes) in @NatureComms shows how protein 'clumps' drive bacteria into a state of dormancy, with implications for antibiotic resistance. 👉 Read here vibbio.tech/4jx0JFY @FWOVlaanderen @KU_Leuven

🎙️🎧 This month, the Verstrepen lab's research on non-alcoholic beers 🍺(@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences) has featured in 2 international podcasts (#BBCCrowdScience @BBCSounds and #DeNachtVan @NPORadio1)! Listen to them here: cfm.sites.vib.be/en/news#/new...

📣The lab of @KevinVerstrepen is looking for an ✨executive admin✨to ensure that our center 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/manag…

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

📢Interested in breaking the code of posttranscriptional regulation? The team of @KevinVerstrepen (@KU_Leuven, @VIBLifeSciences, @ERC_Research) is looking for postdoc in bioinformatics or computational biology! More information can be found here: jobs.vib.be/j/96693/erc-fu…

🍻 Curious about the science behind your favorite beer? 🍺 Dive into our VIB KU Leuven free online MOOC to explore malting & brewing secrets, and get virtual tours of some iconic Belgian breweries.🧑‍🔬Enroll today! 👉 edx.org/learn/beer/ku-…