Microbiology

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

Using microbes as factories

Joleen Masschelein's journey in microbiology

Catching up with VIB scientists all across the world

From fundamental to applied science and later policy-making: sustainability is the recurring theme in alumna Stien Beirinckx's career