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VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology - our ambition is to contribute to a better understanding of the biology underlying cancer initiation, progression and metastatic dissemination.
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Congratulations to our postdoc Yiming Peng-Winkler for receiving the Young Investigator Award at the 22nd International AEK Cancer Congress in Berlin!
March 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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🤯 Blocking an enzyme can reprogram immune cells to improve cancer treatments? Check out our latest research by Massimiliano Mazzone, Samantha Pretto, and colleagues
@vib-ccb.bsky.social! @erc.europa.eu europa.eu
@fwovlaanderen.bsky.social
👉 Read our complete story: vibbio.tech/421Syum
March 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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❔Want to stay ahead in #sequencing innovation? #RNGS25 will bring together top experts, groundbreaking research, and networking opportunities.

⌛There are only a few days left (deadline 5 March) to join 300 colleagues who have already registered! Sign up here: vibbio.tech/3XpVrm7 #NGS #Seq
February 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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🔦Our new #VIBGrandchallenges PID 2.0 project in the spotlight on #RareDiseaseDay

🎥Check the animation movie via: bit.ly/4aS2tFC 👈

@viblifesciences.bsky.social @uzgent.bsky.social
@UGent @hcl-recherche.bsky.social are ready to tackle this diagnostic grand challenge in primary immunodeficiencies🩸
February 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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⌛Submit your abstract for #INCI25 before midnight today, and showcase your work to top scientists in #CancerBiology & #Inflammation!
Join us in Bruges & upload here: vibbio.tech/4i2KtLS
Present your research on stage or in poster sessions for a chance to win the @cellpress.bsky.social Poster Prize🏆.
February 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Our latest piece "Decoding Melanoma’s Cellular Mosaic to Unlock Immunotherapy Potential" is available online: authors.elsevier.com/a/1khFK3QxxS... and will soon be published in @cp-trendscellbio.bsky.social. Thanks to @pozniakjoanna.bsky.social for taking the lead! Our Cover design proposal is below
March 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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We’ve recently described a transcriptomic landscape of human melanomas associated with immunotherapy outcomes: www.cell.com/action/showP...
Here is our follow up review available online: "Decoding Melanoma’s Cellular Mosaic to Unlock Immunotherapy Potential" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.cell.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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At #INCI25, Prof. Guido Kroemer (@upcite.bsky.social) will explore the connections between metabolism, #cancer & #immunity, focusing on the links between metabolic syndrome, obesity, nutrition, and common cancers – all through the lens of aging. Join us in connecting the dots: vibbio.tech/4kBXX2T
March 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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What did participants at our last Women in Leadership Workshop have to say? ♀️

"The real-life experience that senior women leaders on the field relayed was precious and made me feel understood in current similar challenges"

Apply to attend the 2025 edition: 2025.eacr.org/women-in-lea...
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Happy to share our new insights in the variant mutations driving high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic #leukemia - always new discoveries when you go to the #single-cell level… @hemasphere-journal.bsky.social

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Single‐cell DNA and surface protein characterization of high hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia at diagnosis and during treatment
High hyperdiploid (HeH) B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is the most prevalent subtype of childhood ALL. This leukemia is characterized by trisomies and tetrasomies of specific chromosomes...
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February 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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sparrow /ˈsparəʊ/
🪶 a small chiefly brownish or grayish oscine songbird
💻 a powerful tool to analyze spatial transcriptomics data

Discover the story behind SParrOW
👉 https://blog.vib.be/sparrow-takes-flig<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:st7emau7vvfp632aehx5q3zv" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">ht
@lopollar.bsky.social @saeyslab.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Prof. Cornelia Weyand (@mayoclinic.org) will speak at #INCI25 on how metabolic defects in T-cells contribute to the development of #autoimune diseases by promoting #inflammation and pathogenic T-cell functions.

Join us in the beautiful city of Bruges: vibbio.tech/4bnGeYN #cancer #immunotherapy
February 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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We're hiring a postdoc!🚨

Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease.

🔬Requirements:
- PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field
- Expertise in omics
- Strong publication record

Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social
Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics of the human gut microbiome - VIB
About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications
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February 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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We're happy to introduce VIB Tech Watch (@vibtechnologies.bsky.social) as one of our Luminary early-access partners. Our work with EAPs allows us to continuously improve the Lightcast platform & empower researchers to better understand cellular function.

#ScienceSky 🧪

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Lightcast Luminaries: Working with VIB to make every single cell count
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February 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Are you ready for your next step in immunology/vascular biology research?
Do you want to decipher the generation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer and chronic inflammation? Then check out our job opening for a postdoc position at the VIB Center for cancer Biology:
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Postdoctoral position to study tertiary lymphoid structures in space and time - VIB
We have discovered that vascular/immunomodulating therapies can transform immunosuppressive tumor endothelial cells into immune-stimulating high-endothelial venules (HEV) that due to their specific fu...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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📢We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher 📢

Are your curious about the mechanisms driving metastatic spread? Do you have *bioinformatics* skills to help us unravel these mechanisms?
We (Scheelelab & Bergerslab) may have your dream job
@viblifesciences.bsky.social VIB Center for Cancer Biology
Postdoctoral position in Bio-Informatics to unravel the metastatic journey in time and space - VIB
When cancer cells leave the primary tumor to seed in other organs, they need to seek the help of different cell types in distinct environments to make their journey successful. Lymph nodes (LN), which...
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November 27, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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We are looking for PhD students and/or postdocs that want to join us to study the metabolism of metastasizing cancer cells with cutting-edge spatial and single cell technologies.
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February 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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What began with an inter-lab research stay has evolved in a great collaboration with Miguel Martin Perez and Salvador Aznar Benitah and @ankevandekeere.bsky.social .

Interested in lipid signaling? Check the latest article for studying protein palmitoylation in mammalian cells
SILAC-based assessment of S-palmitoylated proteins in mammalian cells by metabolic labeling and click-chemistry
S-palmitoylation of cysteine residues is the only lipid-based posttranslational modification of proteins that is reversible and therefore has importan…
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February 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Join our #CCBCancerLecture for an insightful talk by Renato Ostuni on "Molecular and spatial control of the immune microenvironment of pancreatic cancer".

📅 Tuesday February 25th
🕐 13h
📍 Auditorium O&N4

#CancerResearch
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Join our #CCBCancerLecture for an insightful talk by Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold on "Intravital microscopy: unlocking insights into tumor metastasis and CAR-T Cell Therapy."

📅 Tuesday January 28th
⌚ 13h
📍 Aula O&N5

#CancerResearch #CAR_Therapy #IntravitalMicroscopy
January 27, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Scientists @vib-ccb.bsky.social found that aspartate, a biosynthesis metabolite, functions in the lung environment as an extracellular signaling molecule to promote aggressiveness of metastases in mice and patients. https://buff.ly/4iY5ece
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Aspartate signalling drives lung metastasis via alternative translation - Nature
Aspartate in the tumour environment activates the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor in cancer cells to induce cellular programmes that increase the aggressiveness of metastasis.
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January 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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🤯 New work by @ginevradoglioni.bsky.social, @fendtlab.bsky.social, and colleagues finds a role for the amino acid in cancer metastasis.
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(👉 vibbio.tech/40hLskI)
January 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Beyond excited to share that the main work of my PhD on how aspartate signaling drives metastasis is finally out in @nature.com

-> go.nature.com/4gCYtuL

A huge thank to the @fendtlab.bsky.social and all our collaborators for the terrific team work 🙏

A brief 🧵
Aspartate signalling drives lung metastasis via alternative translation - Nature
Aspartate in the tumour environment activates&nbsp;the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor in cancer cells to&nbsp;induce cellular programmes that increase the aggressiveness of metastasis.
go.nature.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations to Lidiia Rumiantseva for turning her PhD research into an engaging presentation of only 180 seconds, and winning the audience award of the KU Leuven 3 Minute Thesis Talk!
Congrats as well to laureate Aarushi Caro!

#3MT #ScienceCommunication #PhDLife
December 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Survival of the fittest 💪

🎙️ We're happy to welcome Sanne van Neerven (Gurdon Institute) to our center for a #CCBCancerLecture on the role of cell competition in intestinal tumour formation.

Join us:
🗓️ December 20th
📍 Aula O&N4
⌚️ 13h
December 18, 2024 at 4:08 PM