VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, UGent

The Department entered VIB in 1996 as a research group working on actin organization and using state-of-the-art protein chemistry.  It then also formed the core of the Department of Biochemistry of the Faculty of Medicine of the Ghent University.  While its original structure was highly integrated (the Department was smaller and researchers were younger), the actual structure is more segmented, though still reflecting the same basic lines of research.

Department directors (a.i.): Kris Gevaert and Jan Tavernier

VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, UGent

Scientists & research:

  • Jan Gettemans Lab
    single-domain antibody - protein domain knockout - intrabody - cancer - invasion
  • Kris Gevaert Lab
    COFRADIC - gel-free proteomics - bioinformatics - protein processing - protein modification
  • Mohamed Lamkanfi Lab
    NOD-like receptors - inflammasomes - innate immunity - signal transduction - inflammatory caspase
  • Lennart Martens Lab
    computational - proteomics - degradomics - interactomics - systems biology
  • Jan Tavernier Lab
    signal transduction - protein interactions - leptin - cytokine receptors - innate immune responses

Contact

VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, UGent
Albert Baertsoenkaai 3  9000 GENT BELGIUM
Tel:
+32 9 331 33 17
Fax:
+32 9 331 35 97

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