📢 Proud to annouce that @CSB_UGent became one of the new #CoreFacilities at @ugent. Infrastructure for "High-Throughput Screening for #SyntheticBiology: from gene to product" (or in short "HTS for #SynBio") will be included and made available to others. 🧵1/4

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congratulations to Marc Kessels Solé, Hannelore Wilssens, Elise Elsacker, Lien De Wannemaeker and Marjan De Mey for their recent publication! They review how to develop multispecies engineered living materials with new functions 👉doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2026.1…

🔔 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🔔 Congrats to CSB alumnus @Carlos_AlvarezQ & co-authors on their publication in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics: 'Enhanced GDP-mannose 4-epimerization and dynamic insights into NDP-sugar 4-epimerase substrate specificity'. 👉lnkd.in/epz5TtU6

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congratulations to Jasmine De Baets, Marjan De Mey and Brecht De Paepe for their publication in Microbial Biotechnology! They have developed a model to predict the response of quorum sensing systems. Read all about it here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70…

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congratulations to Lobke Sips, Liam Jenkins, Jens Coture and Inge Van Bogaert for their recent publication in Biotechnology and Bioengineering! Read all about it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/bit.70227

📢 CSB at the International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025! 🌎 PhD students Miguel and Carla took the stage to present their cutting-edge work in #proteinlanguagemodels, #biosensor and #geneticcircuits. Thanks to Isobionics and @WUR for the organization!

🍄 Publication Alert! 🍄 👏 Congrats to @windels_alex, @DeclerckLuna & all co-authors for their latest publication in #JAFC (@ACSPublications)! They combined #biocatalysis & #precisionfermentation to convert mushroom chitin waste into valuable chitinpentaose. #Sustainability🌱

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to @Wouter_DM and co-authors @BrechtDePaepe , @Chiara_Guidi_ & @mademey for the publication of their review in Biological Reviews! Read all about bet-hedging and the relation to chitin degradation here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #synbio #review

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢 Art-Science collaborations: What counts as knowledge? Who counts as a colleague? What counts as an outcome? Read all about in our latest article 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Congrats to all authors! @christinastadl7 @mademey

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Friederike Mey & @wael94517 for combining their #synbio and #ML power to improve in vivo chitooligosaccharides production! Read the full article here 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #MachineLearning #Metabolomics #Biotech

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT📢 Congrats to Jungho Lee, Iris Cornet, Kristien De Sitter and Inge Van Bogaert for their collaborative work on "Turning the non-pathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola into a powerful long-chain dicarboxylic acid production host" 👇 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢 New review paper out by @BrechtDePaepe & @mademey in ACS Synthetic Biology! With the end of the year in sight, this review discusses lots of biosensor research opportunities for 2025! 🚀 Read the paper here 👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Last week, @EmmaDeBeul successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Exploring and engineering the substrate specificity of glycoside hydrolases and phosphorylases." Today, we celebrate not only this incredible achievement but also her birthday! Congratulations and happy birthday Emma🥳

🎤 CSB at #NGSB24 @DeclerckLuna, Hamza Malik & Carla Piñeira presented part of the MEMO-research at #NGSB24. Luna even took the stage and pitched her research! Our PI @mademey presented our scale-up work in an invited talk. Thanks @VIBLifeSciences for organizing this event!

🎤📢 CSB presenting at #ASBE7 Special shout-out to two of our colleagues @LobkeSips & @BrechtDePaepe who both got the opportunity to present their work in Brno. A lot of biosensor development work in their talks 💪 Thanks to @EFBiotechnology for organizing this conference!