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Basic Proteomics is happening today and tomorrow at the VIB Proteomics Core in Ghent!
Two hands-on days covering the full MS-based workflow: experimental design, sample prep (incl. S-trap), LC-MS/MS, and intro data analysis.
Kudos to the trainer team for sharing their expertise! 🙌

The VIB BioImaging Core (Ghent) team has really outdone itself this time. Meet the full crew and take a tour through their light microscopy (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) suite in a seriously dope MTV Cribs–style video.
🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4xjmgxAdYM

The Spatial Omics Summer School offers a structured, hands-on introduction to spatially resolved targeted transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

If you want to join, submit your application by 2 February 2026.

https://www.vibconferences.be/events/spatial-omics-summer-school

We are excited to have @minomatt.bsky.social as a keynote speaker at the Flanders Nanopore Day, alongside a wide range of @nanoporetech.com topics, spanning from microbes to plants to humans. All information - including free registration and free PromethION sequencing - at nanoporeflanders.be

Big delivery at the VIB Data Core! 😍

📦 📦 Two systems with B300 GPUs, an investment by @vibai.bsky.social
📦 A server with RTX 6000 GPUs

The systems will be racked and configured over the coming weeks, and the Data Core team will run full testing before integrating them into producti

The VIB Protein Core has significantly upgraded its fermentation capabilities with a new Infors Multifors 2 system. 🤩

This setup enables six simultaneous bioreactor runs, each with a final working volume of 1 L, ideal for accelerating the development of your candidate proteins.

Tech strategy is more than choosing platforms. It's about how we manage, evaluate, and improve them for lasting scientific impact.

This October, we share that approach in a hands-on workshop on KPIs.
https://training.vib.be/all-trainings/key-performance-indicators-core-facilities-metrics-success

Happy New Year from the VIB Flow Core in Leuven. 🎉
🎁 ✨ The BD FACS Discover S8 Chorus got a software upgrade
🎁 ✨ The Analyzer A1 Symphony now supports high-throughput screening in 96- and 384-well microtiter plates

More info: https://tinyurl.com/mt2vpa5y

Bring on your samples in 2026!

On HLN, Bart Ghesquière, Head of the VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven, shares his expert perspective on a recent large-scale metabolomics study exploring how a simple finger-prick blood test could help identify disease risk long before symptoms appear.

https://tinyurl.com/5n8ky4v9 (in Dutch)

For Elina Kuznecova, joining VIB meant more than starting a new job, it meant finding a team that shared her curiosity and passion for science: “I met many passionate people, including my team lead, and I knew this was the team where I wanted to work.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py0bDtkohM

What can we expect in 2026 when it comes to life science technology?

We asked our @vibtechwatch.bsky.social team: https://beakon.ghost.io/we-expect-the-boundaries-between-core-facilities-to-blur-even-further/

Here’s to a year of fewer walls, better tools, and smarter pipelines! ✨

Hélène Roberge from the VIB BioImaging Core Leuven won the first prize in the Awesome vEM Images 2025 competition 🏆🔬

Her image was awarded in the 'Bringing Meaning to the Data' category, recognizing computational analysis of volume electron microscopy data.

Congratulations, Hélène! 👏

Who's ready for a new challenge in 2026?

We're expanding our Tech Satellite in Antwerp and are looking for a Lab Technician to strengthen our support in Flow Cytometry & Single Cell Omics.

https://jobs.vib.be/j/127644/lab-technician-tech-satellite-antwerp-flow-cytometry-single-cell-omics

History tells two stories about transformative technology. One is the flash of discovery, the second is the decades spent building the infrastructure to make that discovery accessible. 🏗️

Reza Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh on the story of the VIB Nanobody® VHH Core 👉 https://tinyurl.com/ycxe2rp2

Next May, the Computational Cytometry Summer School returns to Ghent for its 3rd edition.

Sofie Van Gassen explains what participants can expect from this intensive hands-on program.
https://tinyurl.com/msmzk74f

Apply before 16 December 2025 ⚠️

Big VIB Technologies delegation in Antwerp today to join for the one and only #CMNday2025. 🙌|

#VIBtechies @cmn-vib.bsky.social

Great to be here to discuss how our different cores can support the research projects across VIB labs in Antwerp. 🙌

Kicking off #CMNday2025 with technology deep dives and updates from the Rademakers and @mancusorenzo.bsky.social labs, by Elise Coopman and Maxim van Hoek. 🚀
@vibtechnologies.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Today we had the pleasure of hosting Daniel Cipelewski, Director of Nikon Europe, for a visit to the VIB BioImaging Core in Leuven.

A big thank you to Daniel and the Nikon Europe team for the ongoing trust and partnership. We look forward to many more years of pushing imaging boundaries together!

In her eposide of the Called to Science podcast, Elina Kuznecova shares what drives her work as lab technician at the VIB Spatial Catalyst.

🎧
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py0bDtkohM
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3gYKOhiWSqcsnwTTfyasHE?si=V0fLWgfFTLaPTTSashuxfg

Making your genomic data FAIR just got a lot easier. 🧬 🚀

The VIB DataCore has developed a streamlined useGalaxy workflow that supports you in submitting raw sequencing reads and genome assemblies to ENA:

useGalaxy.be
slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17431102

#EVORA #ELIXIRbelgium

Jochen Lamote @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social was an invited speaker at #AFC2025 in Dijon last week.

In case you missed it, here's a sneak peak 👇

VIB Technologies day 2025: Meet the flow people.! 💪☺️

We speak fluent lasers, obsessed with glowing cells and we keep the magic flowing.! 📊🧬💡

#cellsorting #flowcytometry #VIBTechnologies #squadpower

Jobs Jobs at VIB Technologies

🚨 Job opportunity
The Proteomics Core is hiring a (Junior) Technical Support Team Member to keep its mass-spec proteomics services running smoothly.

🗓 Deadline: November 30, 2025
👉 Apply via the VIB job site https://vib.be/en/technologies/about-vib-technologies/jobs#/job-description/127269

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!

Heads-up for all VIB Techies: at our @vibtechnologies.bsky.social Day on Nov 6th, we’ll host a session on job shadowing and open the next call. Perfect timing if you’re curious, hunting for blind spots, or keen to co-optimize pipelines with neighboring cores!

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/