Science

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.

Inside the science of endometriosis-associated pain

An Interview with Eleonora Persoons from the Vriens/Voets Lab and Vaidi Plovie from Endo.Insideout vzw

On dealing with large volumes of sensitive data

How the De Preter lab became the first users of VIB Data Core’s new secure compute cluster

Two labs, one question: MAGISTER begins

First laureates of the Fund Stéphanie Willems (King Baudouin Foundation), tackling glucocorticoid resistance in polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Proteomics for patients and society

How the VIB Proteomics Core is rebuilding its pipeline to power clinical studies, patient diagnostics, and biomarker discovery

From discovery to diagnosis: turning research insights into tools for patients

An interview with Siele Ceuppens, Senior Scientist at VIB Discovery Sciences

1 million Euro for research into Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Albena Jordanova receives Generet Prize for rare diseases

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).

Dimitra Sokolova studies astrocytes, microglia and T cells from autism to Alzheimer’s disease

Meet Polina Novikova

Polina Novikova joins the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology

Eight novel genes expand the clinical and molecular spectrum of peripheral neuropathy

Last year, scientists across the globe were able to link eight new genes to peripheral neuropathy—three of them by researchers at the Jordanova lab (VIB-UAntwerp). Postdoc Ayşe Candayan explains that more than any single technology, it was close collaboration and creative problem-solving that made these discoveries possible.

New study highlights intestinal macrophages as early drivers of Parkinson’s disease 

A new Nature publication by Sebastiaan De Schepper and collaborators strengthens the growing view that Parkinson’s disease is not exclusively a 'brain-first' disorder. By looking at very early events in the body, particularly in the gut, the study adds new clues about how disease processes might begin outside the brain and later progress into the nervous system.