Study plant-pathogen interactions by day🌱 Building a sneaker collection at all other times👟 I also engage in SciComm when time permits All views are my own😊
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Extremely delighted to share our research into "engineering the engineer" which is now out 👨🔧🦠🌱
Efficient CRISPR-mediated base editing in Agrobacterium spp. pnas.org/content/118/2/e2013…
Very grateful to all co-authors 😁
@LaurensPauwels @BarbaraConinck
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📢 The website for the 46th Annual Crown Gall Conference is now live!
🗓️ October 3–4, 2026, at Williams College, MA
⏳ Registration deadline: August 10
Looking forward to another great meeting of the Agrobacterium community!
crowngallconference.org/
#Crowngall #Agrobacterium
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Golden Gate 🧬 builds complex T-DNAs for plant transformation & gene editing — but what if we used it to make binary vector backbones?
Glad to contribute to Jonas De Saeger's (Jacobs lab) preprint on BackBone Builder 🔧🌱
tinyurl.com/4ycydjhe
ALT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705982v1
It was lovely to meet and have lunch with fellow #Agrobacterium researchers at the IS-MPMI 2025 conference. Great conversations, great discussions, and a shared passion for Agrobacterium-Plant research! 🌱🧫🦠
@erhminlai, @XuanLaiTW, @NoraLiu2000
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🚨 Vacancy PhD student 🚨
Passionate about #CRISPR, plant biotechnology, and breeding?
Join our project on meiotic recombination in maize 🌽
A collaboration of our lab @FbwUGent, @ILVOvlaanderen & @KU_Leuven
🔗ugent.be/en/work/scientific/…
Apply before August 10!
ALT Maize seedlings expressing RUBY
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🌱 The full Agrobacterium 2025 programme is now live!
📅 Early bird registration ends June 13 — don’t miss out!
🚶♀️ Join the Tall Tales of Leuven city walk (Sept 14) — included in the fee, but registration required.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4rdw84fa
#Agrobacterium2025 #PlantScience
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Big news for #Agrobacterium2025 in Leuven, Belgium.
Thanks to our amazing #sponsors, we’re able to offer travel awards for grad students + poster prizes! 🏆✈️
📢 New abstract deadline: May 10
👉 kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…
#SciComm #PhDLife #Microbiology #PlantScience
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🚨 #Agrobacterium2025: Abstract deadline this Monday! 🚨
Our final invited speaker: Christoph Dehio @biozentrum @UniBasel_en — diving into β-glucan synthesis 🔬🧬
👉 Check out this recent paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
📢 Submit your abstract now: biw.kuleuven.be/biosyst/crop…
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Excited to announce Patrick Shih @UCBerkeley
as an invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025! He’ll present on ‘Utilizing synthetic biology for engineering Agrobacterium.’
Recent work @LabShih: nature.com/articles/s41587-0….
Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…"
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Happy to announce that our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Alexandra Weisberg from @osubpp
Seminal paper by @weisbergaj science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1!
kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…
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Our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Erh-Min Lai from @IPMBSinica !
Breakthrough report published this week by
@AdamWu9527 @ChihHorngKuo and @erhminlai
doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70083
15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…
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Save the date! #AGROBACTERIUM2025 Joint event of the 45st American Crown Gall meeting and the 5th European #Agrobacterium conference SEPTEMBER 15-16 2025, LEUVEN, BELGIUM More info soon!
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The first gene edited crop trials have been harvested.
The new varieties have qualities which could improve yield and green credentials.
Read more here:
fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-select…
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Great news! Japan approved the use of a 4th gene edited food crop. The new waxy maize variety provides more smoothness to food products. Gene editing of crops is now mainstream, except in Europe #EUSAGE bit.ly/3KUKd32
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Chinese scientists use gene editing to develop soybean lines with enhanced ‘nodulation ability’, allowing plants to fix more nitrogen from the air, boosting crop yield and protein.
isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupda…
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The 6th European #Maize Meeting will be 18-20/9 2024 in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. uantwerpen.be/en/conferences… Don't forget to visit.antwerpen.be
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GeneSprout Initiative will be represented by @GermanVighi at the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival high-level event in Brussels! Are you a bioeconomy stakeholder, a policymaker, or passionate about #EUBioeconomy? 🌍
See you there on 13-14 Mar
🔗 europa.eu/!wVXWYG
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Starting now! #EUbioeocnomy #changemakers
GeneSprout Initiative will be represented by @GermanVighi at the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival high-level event in Brussels! Are you a bioeconomy stakeholder, a policymaker, or passionate about #EUBioeconomy? 🌍
See you there on 13-14 Mar
🔗 europa.eu/!wVXWYG
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My lab is recruiting a postdoc on an FWO/FNRS funded project. Interested in researching how secondary metabolites from beneficial bacteria trigger immune responses in plants? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit… @lab_php @CropBioLeuven @LeuvenPlantInst @biosystkuleuven
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Can you produce #pears underneath solar panels? Yes, you can, with #agrivoltaics. The #PV panels can create additional benefits for the crop, while producing sustainable energy.
@KU_Leuven @H2020Hyperfarm @biosystkuleuven @CropBioLeuven @VLAIO_be
stories.kuleuven.be/nl/verha… – at Bierbeek, België
