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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.

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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/

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...