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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!

Transgene-free precise genome engineering in poplar for breeding and research purposes Hoengenaert et al. @PSB_VIB Bioenergy @bioenergyvib.bsky.social 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MKI84XG2…

Vacancy Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Gembloux! Full-time academic position in #plantgenetics to study plant genetic resources for supporting the agroecological transition #vacancy #plantresearch gembloux.uliege.be/upload/docs/ap…

March IPBO Online Café Series! ☕🌱 Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social and Steven Runo will discuss Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and gene editing to manage witchweed in crops 📅 Friday, March 7th, 2025 ⏰ 3:30 PM (EAT) 🖱️ Register: lnkd.in/gEMSBa3f

Again a superb example of the power of #CRISPR gene editing in crops by Xiao-Ya Chen and Caixia Gao! Engineering of Coenzyme Q10 production is rice and wheat using advanced prime editing and GRAND systems by quintuple amino acid substitutions. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

#Agrobacterium 2025. The 45th American Crown Gall meeting and the 5th European Agrobacterium conference: registration and abstract submission is now open! #deadline May 1, 2025. Thanks to our sponsors we will select some students for travel grants. kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…

Just arrived in Songdo, Korea! 🇰🇷 Excited to be teaching 🌱Plant Biotechnology at Ghent University Global Campus for the next few weeks. 🎓 #GUGC UGent Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

Excited to announce Patrick Shih UC Berkeley as an invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025! He’ll present on ‘Utilizing synthetic biology for engineering Agrobacterium.’ Recent work ShihLab: nature.com/articles/s4158…. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…"

Happy to announce that our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Alexandra Weisberg from Botany & Plant Pathology Seminal paper by Alexandra Weisberg science.org/doi/full/10.11… 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2…

Some of our lecturers traveled to the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, Korea. 👩‍🏫 Prof. Liesbeth Jacxsens and Dr. Tessa Tuytschaever taught the course Quality Management Systems in the Agrifood Chain. 🌱 Prof. Laurens Pauwels taught Plant Biotechnology. #FlyingFaculty

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/agrobacterium2… #SciComm #PhDLife #Microbiology #PlantScience

Last week, Mobi explored how to use AI to transform our research and education 🤖. Great hands-on sessions by Evelyne De Caluwé and AnneMarie Leuridan that went far beyond ChatGPT 🚀✨ #PromptEngineering #VibeCoding #AITrends

1/6 Excited to share our new preprint integrating floral stage selection, immune evasion, and #Agrobacterium engineering, to advance genome editing in #Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, by Mao-Sen and Teng-Kuei in collaboration with Chih-Horng Kuo (郭志鴻) Chih-Hang Wu IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) #AMT

🚨 #Agrobacterium2025: Abstract deadline this Monday! 🚨 Our final invited speaker: Christoph Dehio Biozentrum, University of Basel University of Basel — diving into β-glucan synthesis 🔬🧬 👉 Check out this recent paper: nature.com/articles/s4146… 📢 Submit your abstract now: biw.kuleuven.be/biosyst/cropbi…

🌱 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

Science & sunshine 🔬☀️ We traded pipettes for drinks last Friday with a visit to GAZON (instagram.com/gazon.gent), Ghent's most popular summer bar and just next door to our campus! 🍻

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We used single-cell RNA-seq + GRN analysis to uncover novel morphogenic genes that boost #maize transformation frequency 🌽 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to Vandepoele lab @vandepoelelab.bsky.social and all other co-authors! #PlantScience #scRNAseq

🚨 Vacancy PhD student 🚨 Passionate about #CRISPR, plant biotechnology, and breeding? Join our project on meiotic recombination in maize 🌽 A collaboration of our lab Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent, ILVO & KU Leuven 🔗ugent.be/en/work/scient… Apply before August 10!