VIB scientists overview

  • Wim Annaert Lab
    • membrane transport in Alzheimer’s disease and congenital disorders of glycosylation type II​
    • ER-Golgi/endosomal trafficking - APP - gamma-secretase

  • Claudia Bagni Lab
    • cellular and molecular studies of synaptic plasticity in Fragile X Syndrome
    • regulation of synaptic protein synthesis

  • Francesco Battaglia Lab

     ​Battaglia’s research group is focusing on the mechanisms of learning and memory systems in the brain, hippocampal interactions and memory consolidation.

  • Tom Beeckman Lab
    • formation of lateral-root primordia in the pericycle
    • involvement of cell-cycle regulation in the initiation of new organs
    • Auxin in the pericycle​

  • Eva Benková Lab
    • ​Interaction of hormonal pathways with auxin transport and signalling
    • Auxin-cytokinin interaction in lateral root formation

  • Geert Berx Lab
    • Invasion and metastasis of cancer cells
    • identification of new target genes of transcription factors Snail, Slug, SIP1/ZEB2 and delta-EF-1/ZEB1

     

  • Rudi Beyaert Lab
    • NF-kB signal transduction
    • Innate immunity and inflammatory diseases
    • Cytokine and Toll-like receptor signalling

  • Wout Boerjan Lab
    • bio-energy research on poplar and Arabidopsis 
    • biosynthesis, polymerization and structure of lignin

  • Vincent Bonin Lab
    • visual processing in the mammalian brain
    • ​network dynamics and computations
    • neural circuits and behavior

  • Patrick Callaerts Lab
    • Genetics and neurobiology of aggressive behavior in the fly
    • Pharmacogenomics of psychotropic drugs

     

  • Nico Callewaert Lab
    • ​Biological systems engineering (synthetic biology)
    • Glycoconjugate engineering
    • High-throughput glycan profiling (glycomics)
    • Mycobacterium-host interactions

  • Peter Carmeliet Lab
    • ​Angiogenesis & Lymphangiogenesis
    • Neurobiology & Neurodegenration
    • Vessels, Oxygen & Metabolism

  • Jan Cools Lab
    • ​novel oncogenic mutations in leukemia
    • targeting deregulated pathways for leukemia therapy
    • cooperation of oncogenes during leukemogenesis

  • Pierre Cornelis Lab
    • uptake of iron via siderophores in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and P. fluorescens
    • antibiotic efflux systems with a central role in quorum sensing circuitry

  • Guido David Lab
    • role of syndecans and glypicans in the control of morphogen signalling and cell fate determination
    • vesicular trafficking

  • Patrick De Baetselier Lab
    • ​myeloid cell heterogeneity and functions - functional genomics
    • invasion and metastasis
    • trypanosome infection biology

  • Geert De Jaeger Lab
    • develop interactomic technology to study gene and protein networks regulating plant growth
    • use network knowledge to discover new approaches for the engineering of plant growth

  • Peter De Jonghe Lab
    • ​molecular genetics of peripheral neuropathies, idiopathic epilepsy syndromes, progressive external ophthalmoplegia and spastic paraplegias
    • mapping of additional loci and identification of genes for inherited peripheral neuropathies and inherited epilepsy syndromes

  • Bart De Strooper Lab
    • ​Basic mechanisms of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
    • Secretases of the amyloid peptide
    • Intramembrane proteolysis as a signaling mechanism

  • Lieven De Veylder Lab
    • mechanisms that control the timing of cell cycle exit
    • cell cycle adjustment by DNA stress checkpoint mechanisms

  • Jurgen Del-Favero Lab
    • genetic and genomic determinants causing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
    • implementation and development of state-of-the-art methods and technologies for unraveling causes leading to SZ and BPD

  • Ann Depicker Lab
    • ​agrobacterium-mediated transformation: T-DNA integration
    • RNA silencing in plants
    • molecular farming

  • Carlos Dotti Lab
    • ​basic mechanisms of neuronal polarization
    • neuronal membrane protein sorting and transport
    • modulators of gamma secretase cleavage

  • Jiří Friml Lab
    • polar auxin transport
    • polar targeting in plants
    • endocytosis and recycling in plants

  • Holger Gerhardt Lab *
    • importance of tip cell biology in vascular patterning, tumour angiogenesis and ischemic disease

     

  • Jan Gettemans Lab
    • Intracellular Nanobody® technology (Intrabodies)
    • Immunomodulation 
    • Use of Intrabodies in perturbing tumor cell migration, invasion & apoptosis

  • Kris Gevaert Lab
    • Proprietary peptide-centric and mass spectrometry-driven proteomics techniques (COFRADIC)
    • Development of proteome informatics tools

  • Rose Goodchild Lab
    • ​Molecular and cellular pathology of hereditary dystonias
    • Dystonia proteins in neurodevelopment

  • Sofie Goormachtig Lab
    • ​elucidation of strigolactones (SLs) signalling networks
    • implications of SLs biology for economically relevant models and crops
    • functions of SLs in root biology, arbuscular mycorrhization and nodulation

  • Alain Goossens Lab
    • gene discovery in plant metabolism​
    • plant secondary metabolism and metabolic engineering
    • jasmonate signalling cascades
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