Thanks for accepting the invitation Stefan Barakat! It was great having you in Ghent! RARE-MED Elfride De Baere UGent Geneeskunde & Gezondheidswetenschappen

Thanks very much Elfride De Baere and Sarah Vergult FunGen Lab @ UGent for the invitation to visit #Ghent. Lots of cool science on #noncoding #genome ongoing!

Ending one of the best weekends ever. Thx Malte Spielmann , Sarah Vergult and Marian for joining my PhD evaluation committee, it was a true privilege. Thx Alvaro for your guidance and thx to all @RadaIglesiasLab members, family & friends for their support. Love you all ♥️

📢 If you would like to study the nuclear control of mitochondrial DNA at the single-cell level in various model systems (in particular mouse, Drosophila, and patient iPSC-derived brain organoids) and combine this with bio-informatics, go and check out these job vacancies 👇👇

Congratulations to Nore Van Loon from our and FunGen Lab @ UGent teams! Thanks to The Histochemical Society FWO and BioImaging North America funding she will attend #FRET #FLIM #MetabolicImaging workshop this year! A big boost to her #neural #organoids #FOXG1 research project!

After a 6 yr long journey, we ended the diagnostic oddysey for many individuals with ZFHX3 loss of function variants. It was a fantastic journey with many international and wonderful colleagues! Great collaboration with Sarah Vergult and FunGen Lab @ UGent! There's more to come! AJHG

Throwback to last Friday: Team FunGen was well-represented at the yearly BeSHG meeting. 🎉Great job Eva D'haene, Rocío Pérez Baca and Lisa Hamerlinck 👏👏! Lisa even scored a cool poster prize 🌟!! Congrats to our great RARE-MED and cmggent colleagues too!

Throwback to last week: Second time the FunGen team attended this lovely meeting! Great talks, great people, great food, etc. 🤩!

We were lucky to have a great scientific visitor in the lab! 👇🤩

Throwback to last Friday: FunGenLab represent RBSCDB meeting 'Focus on Organoids' in Leuven, Belgium. Very inspiring talks!

A behemoth of integrated omics data finally published. Keith Siew & London Tubular Centre kindly brought two UCC Physiology boys along for the ride! #CosmicKidneyDisease Grad Studies CoMH UCC FunGen Lab @ UGent Ruslan Dmitriev 

👏Today Keith Siew gave an excellent talk on his recent Nature Communications paper on the effects of spaceflight on kidneys 👏. He got the FunGen Lab @ UGent team (even more) excited about space research 🚀🧬🚀. Thanks a lot Michael Vaughan for inviting him and arranging all the logistics!

Team BBQ ✅! No prove needed what the 'FUN' stands for in the FunGen lab 😋😜!

Working in Ghent, also means (Fun)Gentse Feesten 🥳! A little bit of 🌧️ does not stop us 💪 #TeamFunGen

Throwback to last week: On Tuesday Nore Van Loon gave a talk at MAF 2024 concerning our collaborative work with Ruslan Dmitriev . On Thursday Lisa Hamerlinck and Sarah Vergult presented at the 2nd NDD conference in lovely Antwerp with great support by colleague @colombolara_.

Busy, busy, busy so a little late to the party... Congratulations 🥳👏 to our own PhD student Nore Van Loon for obtaining a prestigious FWO PhD fellowship! Happy she can keep on working on our shared project with Ruslan Dmitriev  ! Go, go, go Nore!

Hooray, last week we had our first 2-day lab retreat and it was awesome 🔥! Great combination of science and fun. Big shout out to the entire team for making it such a great experience🤩 and a special thanks to Eva D'haene and Michael Vaughan for all the help!

The FunGen lab was well represented at two great conferences in the last two weeks: Nore Van Loon went to the EMBO workshop in Capri, IT and @colombolara_ went to Chromatin Dynamics in Munich, GER. They both rocked their poster presentation 😎! Go Team FunGen 💪🥳!

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Yesterday, the FunGen lab was present @ the Marguerite-Marie Delacroix's Conference on "Current Directions in Autism Research and NDDs". Nore Van Loon rocked her poster presentation concerning organoids & Eva D'haene gave an excellent talk on @colombolara_ her 3D genome research.