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🏆 NOMINATION ALERT 🏆

Our CSB colleague @chiaraguidi.bsky.social got nominated for the 'Wijste Gentenaar' as founder and CEO of B-COS! B-COS aims to make the agricultural sectore more sustainable by creating innovative plant vaccins.🪴🔬

Vote here 👉
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03.07.2025 07:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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📣 Publication Alert! 📣

Congrats to Carlos Alvarez, Koen Beerens, Tom Desmet and all co-authors for their latest publication called:

"Protein flexibility drives sugar rotation and high substrate promiscuity in a GDP-sugar 4-epimerase"

Check out the full article here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

05.06.2025 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 CSB at the International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025! 🌎

PhD students Miguel and Carla took the stage to present their cutting-edge work in #proteinlanguagemodels, #biosensor and #geneticcircuits.

Thanks to Isobionics and WUR for the organization!

14.05.2025 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🍄 Publication Alert! 🍄

👏 Congrats to @alexwindels.bsky.social, Luna Declerck & all co-authors for their latest publication in #JAFC (@pubs.acs.org)!

They combined #biocatalysis & #precisionfermentation to convert mushroom chitin waste into valuable chitinpentaose. #Sustainability🌱

14.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢

Congrats to Wouter Demeester, @brechtdepaepe.bsky.social, @chiaraguidi.bsky.social & @mademey.bsky.social for the publication of their review in Biological Reviews!

Read all about bet-hedging and the relation to chitin degradation here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

07.04.2025 08:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢

Art-Science collaborations: What counts as knowledge? Who counts as a colleague? What counts as an outcome?

Read all about in our latest article 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to all authors!

22.02.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢

Congrats to Friederike Mey & Gaetan De Waele for combining their #synbio and #ML power to improve in vivo chitooligosaccharides production!

Read the full article here 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#MachineLearning #Metabolomics #Biotech

27.01.2025 08:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT📢

Congrats to Jungho Lee, Iris Cornet, Kristien De Sitter and Inge Van Bogaert for their collaborative work on "Turning the non-pathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola into a powerful long-chain dicarboxylic acid production host"

👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

15.01.2025 10:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢

New review paper out by Brecht De Paepe & Marjan De Mey in ACS Synthetic Biology!

With the end of the year in sight, this review discusses lots of biosensor research opportunities for 2025! 🚀

Read the paper here👇
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

23.12.2024 18:09 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Last week, Dr. Emma De Beul successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Exploring and engineering the substrate specificity of glycoside hydrolases and phosphorylases." Today, we celebrate not only this incredible achievement but also her birthday! Congratulations and happy birthday Emma 🥳

18.12.2024 09:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎤 CSB at #NGSB24

Luna Declerck, Hamza Malik & Carla Piñeira presented part of the MEMO-research at #NGSB24. Luna even took the stage and pitched her research!

Our PI Marjan De Mey presented our scale-up work in an invited talk.

Thanks @viblifesciences.bsky.social for organizing this event!

13.12.2024 10:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0