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The 2025 VIB.AI International PhD Call closes June 22nd.

We’re offering 4 fully funded PhD positions across labs tackling big questions in biology with AI and machine learning, covering protein design, computational neuroscience, gene regulation, and more.
👉 https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

Congratulations to Klaas Vandepoele @vandepoelelab.bsky.social on receiving an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant!

His multiCODE project aims to decode the regulatory code of gene expression in plants using a powerful combination of single-cell genomics, AI, and synthetic biology.

Congratulations! 👏

Two days left to apply before our group leader call closes.

Build your own group. Access core funding, top infrastructure, and a collaborative research environment at the intersection of AI and life sciences.

https://tinyurl.com/y35m6khy

We want to build models that help us understand how biological systems work. And for that, we need scientists who live at the interface of machine learning and biology.

We’re recruiting Group Leaders!
https://tinyurl.com/y35m6khy
Call closes June 14th

The @joanampereira.bsky.social lab is hiring a PhD student via the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025!

Work on deep learning & network-based methods for protein bioinformatics, evolution & structure-function prediction.
📍 Leuven
🗓️ Apply by June 22nd → https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

We want to connect:
To link model builders with data generators.
To bring together scientists asking why cells behave the way they do, and others figuring out how to model that behavior.

If you're working on AI in biology, consider joining!
https://tinyurl.com/y35m6khy

Join the @steinaerts.bsky.social Lab via the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025!
Use ML to decode how DNA sequences control gene activity.
Work with single-cell & spatial genomics, deep learning models, and CRISPR validation.
📍 Leuven
🗓️ Apply by June 22nd → https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

The @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social lab is recruiting a PhD student via the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025!
Join to develop machine learning tools for neuroscience, focusing on simulation-based inference & neural circuit modeling.

📍 Leuven
🗓️ Apply by June 22 → https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

The Vorobieva Lab is recruting a PhD student through the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025!

Work on protein design, membrane proteins & nanopores using AI-driven methods.
📍 Based in Brussels
🗓️ Apply by June 22→ https://vib.ai/en/vibai-international-phd-call-2025
📅 Start in Autumn/Winter '25/26

Looking to start or relocate your lab?
We're hiring Group Leaders to join our growing center at the intersection of AI and biology.

Based in Belgium (Leuven or Ghent)
Start: Q1/2 2026
Deadline: June 14, 2025
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/110906

Please share!

"Crazy, chaotic, tiring, but extremely exciting!"

That’s how @joanampereira.bsky.social sums up the first months of launching her lab at VIB.AI, combining deep learning, network analysis, and bioinformatics to study protein diversity and evolution.

👉 https://blog.vib.be/meet-joana-pereira

Cool positions for AI x biology in Belgium!

VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open!
https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs.

🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd

PS: Love hard puzzles? We're recruiting!
vib.ai/en/opportuni...

In Episode 4 of @viblifesciences.bsky.social's brand new podcast Called to Science, @steinaerts.bsky.social reflects on the realities of doing science.
🎧 tinyurl.com/2wzmvymm

🔥 Just published! Thrilled to share that our work on funkyheatmap has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software 🎉

Don't miss the opportunity to join the Machine Learning in Life Sciences Summer School, organized by
@viblifesciences.bsky.social and @sib.swiss.

Expect a dynamic hackathon-style format with expert guidance and inspiring lectures.

✉️ Submit your application by Tue!
https://tinyurl.com/krvaajwb

We are looking for additional Group Leaders to join the growing computational biology community at VIB.

If you are excited about combining AI and machine learning with fundamental biology, we would love to hear from you!

https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/110906

PhD Position in AI in Microbiology - VIB About the labThe lab of Jeroen Raes (VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications. In additi...

🚨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

We released our preprint on the CREsted package. CREsted allows for complete modeling of cell type-specific enhancer codes from scATAC-seq data. We demonstrate CREsted’s robust functionality in various species and tissues, and in vivo validate our findings: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CREsted: modeling genomic and synthetic cell type-specific enhancers across tissues and species Sequence-based deep learning models have become the state of the art for the analysis of the genomic regulatory code. Particularly for transcriptional enhancers, deep learning models excel at decipher...

New tool 💪 from @steinaerts.bsky.social lab: CREsted, a DL-based approach for predicting cell type-specific reg. elements, applying it to many datasets, incl. mouse cortex, human PBMCs & glioblastoma, demonstrating its ability to identify key TF binding sites: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@joanampereira.bsky.social is off to an amazing start of her lab at vib.ai, congrats to the team !

Congratulations to @joanampereira.bsky.social on being awarded a prestigious FWO Odysseus grant! 🙌

The grant will power the growth of her newly established lab at VIB.AI and the KU Leuven Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

The remarkable ambition to map 37,200 billion cells in the human body More than 3,000 scientists are busy building an atlas of every cell in our body. This should point the way to new medical breakthroughs. Like in a lab in Ghent, where they want to grow immune cells wi...

You can now also read an English translation of the article on the @viblifesciences.bsky.social blog: blog.vib.be/the-remarkab...

How can AI help us unlock the next era of medicine?
@tijd.be spoke to @yvansaeys.bsky.social (VIB-UGent), Tom Taghon (UGent) and Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge) about the @humancellatlas.org and how efforts in Ghent contribute to it.
📰 https://tinyurl.com/y292t9es
📸 ©Jonas Lampens

Fantastic study and collaboration led by stellar postdoc @ioansarr.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to host you in the lab (& thanks to @embo.org for the visiting fellowship)

How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz
Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social

Congratulations to Camiel Mannens, postdoc in the Aerts lab, on obtaining an MSCA fellowship to investigate how genes control brain cell types across different species.

👏

The start of a fantastic adventure!

Insights on human and animal brain cell evolution using AI Researchers in Belgium have used AI, trained on human and animal data, to shed light on how different brain cells have evolved over time and how this may give clues to brain diseases.The study, at…

👩‍💻 By integrating #AnimalResearch and new approaches, we create a path toward clearer, more robust insights
Researchers at @vibai.bsky.social & @viblifesciences.bsky.social used AI on human & animal data to reveal how brain cells evolved in the last 300M years