On World Ocean Day, we celebrate the power of marine microbes
The ocean is one of Earth's biggest allies in buffering climate change. But some of its most important work happens out of sight, at the scale of molecules and microbes. At the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology, Sammy Pontrelli and his team study how marine microbes control the fate of carbon in the ocean, and what that might teach us about the future of our climate.
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An EPIC research trip to Stockholm
Eva Van Bun, PhD student in the Verstrepen lab, recently spent four weeks at the lab of Vicente Pelechano at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, to learn advanced methods for polysome profiling and RNA-sequencing. It was an intense month with long lab days, intense scientific exchange, new collaborations, and memorable Swedish traditions, all of which left her eager to return.
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The very first cell division - Meet Tom Dendooven
Following a PhD and postdoc at Cambridge, Tom Dendooven recently joined the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology as group leader. Backed by an ERC Starting Grant, his research tackles sperm development and how this goes awry in male infertility. Vita Cooman and Florence Thys (both PhD students at CSB) ask him a some questions, ranging from moving abroad to his favorite beer.
