Microbiology

How microbiome research is moving from discovery to impact

What if the key to understanding diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s, or even depression lies not just in our own cells, but in the trillions of microbes that live within and around us? On World Microbiome Day, let’s look at how the microbiome has rapidly grown into one of the most exciting frontiers in life sciences. As scientists, including several research groups at VIB, move beyond simply cataloguing microbes; a new phase is emerging, focused on understanding how these invisible micro-communities actively shape human and planetary health.

The shock absorbers of biology

Kevin Verstrepen and his team on buffer proteins and the genetic variation they mask

Two weeks in Turku

Emma Lemmens dipped into untargeted metabolomics, ice-cold water, and a fresh dose of motivation

The lost world of farmhouse brewing

And the yeasts that survived it

Germ-free mice and gut inflammation - Meet Lars Vereecke

As newly minted VIB Expert scientist and associate professor at UGent, Lars Vereecke leads the Host-Microbiota-Interaction lab at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation research. His lab established the first Belgian germ-free and gnotobiotic mouse facility and is part of the Ghent Gut Inflammation group. He is also a group leader at the Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG).

“The science is ready – now we need to take action.”

A conversation with experts Kevin Verstrepen and Irina Borodina on unlocking the microbial future

Meet Sammy Pontrelli, who looks at marine microbes to learn about carbon sequestration

Sammy joins the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology as group leader and KU Leuven as Assistant Professor

"Bacteria are brilliant chemists"

VIB and J&J team up to harness bacterial enzymes for peptide synthesis

Engineering yeast to produce bioplasticizers

Little organisms, big impact: how microbes help us battle chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease. 

MIMOSA project reviewed.

BIOPET: transforming pet food for a greener world

Engineering gut microbes for disease detection and drug production

the MiStiC project