🎄🔬 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Messens Lab! 🔬🎄 For a 2025 full of ideal oxidation and reduction reactions—where everything is perfectly structured and balanced! Thank you for being part of our journey—let’s make next year reactively amazing!

The Messens lab proudly hosted: "From Lab to Life: A symphony of redox sensations"; the 15th BCRB Fall Symposium, paired for the first time with the 3rd Biosensor Brussels Symposium🎉It was a day filled with groundbreaking science, inspiring talks, and exciting collaborations🔬✨

The Messens lab shined at the Thiol-Based Redox Regulation and Signaling GRS/GRC, Spain. Julia and Shen wowed the audience with their contributions. Julia won the best talk award (GRS)🎤 Shen took the best poster prize (GRC) and an award for the best scientific question (GRS)🌟

Congratulations Dr. Caccamo🎓We are happy to announce that our colleague Anna Caccamo successfully defended her PhD thesis bringing us one step closer to fully understand APX2 function in photosynthesis🌱🔬Thank you Anna for your amazing work and best of luck in your next steps✨

Last Friday, the Brussels Center for Redox Biology celebrated its 14th Fall Symposium! Our team members Daria and Israel presented their biosensor breakthroughs👩‍🔬👨‍🔬in snowy Brussels❄️❄️ Thanks to the organizers for crafting such an exciting day! #redox #biosensors #communication

Julia from our lab delivered a stellar double performance at the Düsseldorf Meeting on Compartmentalized Redox Biology! 🎤 Her poster presentation and selected talk left us all in awe. Way to shine, Julia! 🌟🌟🌟 #redox #biology #internationalconference @juliamalopueyo

The Messens lab made a notable presence at the IMOB23 Optical Biosensors Meeting (Uppsala, Sweden). Daria and Israel's poster presentations captivated the audience, showcasing the lab's dedication to advance the field of biosensors. Thanks to all the organizers and participants!

Today, our postdoc Daria will present at the @SFRR_Europe “Emerging Leaders” webinar at 15:00 CET. Don’t miss it if you want to hear the latest news about “Fluorescent protein-based redox biosensors: the aspects less considered”! #redox #biosensors #communication

@Israelhabanero presented today his research at the Leuven Biosensor Symposium. Thank you Israel for your interesting talk and to the audience for the fruitful discussion! #biosensors #redox #sciencecommunication

Trustworthy predicted structure of the homotrimer ‘MERRYCHRISTMASWISHESANDAHAPPYNEWYEAR’ revealed. Wishing you all a structured (peaceful and healthy) 2023, The Redox Signaling lab.

We are happy to announce that Ting Luo successfully defended his doctoral thesis and is now allowed to call himself doctor of Science: Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and doctor in Bioengineering Sciences. Congratulations Dr. Luo! We are proud of you!!

It was great to finally meet the Redox community at the @EMBO workshop "Thiol oxidation in biology: Biochemical mechanisms to physiological outcomes" in person after a long break. We come back full of new ideas and a poster prize for Daria!

Ting, one of our PhD students, is leaving the lab and he invited us to a delicious “goodbye” lunch. Thank you Ting, good luck in this new adventure and see you soon in your PhD defence😊

Congratulations Dr. Vo! We are happy to announce that Trung Nghia Vo successfully defended his doctoral thesis and is now allowed to call himself doctor of Science: Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and doctor in Bioengineering Sciences. Well done, Nghia! We are proud of you!!

Thank you all for the amazing day yesterday, and a special thank you to the speakers. Very interesting science is going on in the biosensor’s field! Hope to see you all again at the next Biosensor Day!! #biosensors #fluorescence #science #communication

The Biotech Summer School took place at @VUBrussel these last two weeks. Students from all over the world did a weekly-internship in our labs. We had the pleasure to work with Cara, she did a great job!! #vub #biotech #technology

We had a great time at the @structbiolbxl retreat! Perfect combination of scientific discussions and fun activities. Cherry on top was the presentation prize for @Israelhabanero. Congrats, Isra!

Happy New Year to you all from the Messens lab!!

The Messens lab wishes you a safe and wonderful holiday season!

Congratulations Dr. Aleksandra Lewandowska! We are happy to announce that Aleksandra Lewandowska successfully defended her doctoral thesis and is now allowed to call herself doctor of Science: Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and doctor in Bioengineering Sciences. Well done, Ola!