In a new open-access EMBO Reports paper, we propose a practical framework for KPI-based evaluation of core facilities, reflecting how they
🔥 enable science,
🎯 run reliably,
🚀 and stay future-ready through proactive innovation
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00762-z
Cross-core knowledge exchange in action. 🙌
Delphi Van Haver, Morgane Breye and Teresa Maia of the VIB Proteomics Core visited the VIB Nucleomics Core for a job shadowing focused on automation. 🤖
"We're looking forward to putting these insights into practice on our own Opentrons OT-2 & Flex!"
The De Preter lab at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology became the first users of the VIB Data Core's new secure compute cluster.
🙌
blog.vib.be/on-dealing-with-large-vo...
Brain activity, live in a dish 🧠✨
Calcium imaging (Fluo-5) in primary hippocampal neurons, captured at the VIB BioImaging Core Ghent on a ZEISS LSM 980 + Airyscan.
Imaging: Eef Parthoens
Sample & experiment: Cristiano Lucci, @vandenbroucke-lab.bsky.social
Meet Alexandra Zakieva, data manager at EMBL, who recently joined the VIB BioImaging Core in Leuven for an ARISE secondment.
blog.vib.be/modern-science-needs-str...
Last Wednesday, the VIB Flow Core Leuven hosted the #FlowJo User Meeting in Leuven: a full day focused on cytometry data analysis, software workflows, and hands-on learning. 🔬💻 📸
Proteomics is changing fast, and so are the demands on core facilities. Explore how the VIB Proteomics Core is future-proofing its pipeline to support everything from classic discovery projects to large-scale clinical studies and single-cell proteomics.
https://blog.vib.be/proteomics-at-scale
Basic Proteomics is happening today and tomorrow at the VIB Proteomics Core in Ghent!
Two hands-on days covering the full MS-based workflow: experimental design, sample prep (incl. S-trap), LC-MS/MS, and intro data analysis.
Kudos to the trainer team for sharing their expertise! 🙌
The VIB BioImaging Core (Ghent) team has really outdone itself this time. Meet the full crew and take a tour through their light microscopy (LM) and electron microscopy (EM) suite in a seriously dope MTV Cribs–style video.
🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4xjmgxAdYM
The Spatial Omics Summer School offers a structured, hands-on introduction to spatially resolved targeted transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
If you want to join, submit your application by 2 February 2026.
www.vibconferences.be/events/spatial-omics-sum...
We are excited to have @minomatt.bsky.social as a keynote speaker at the Flanders Nanopore Day, alongside a wide range of @nanoporetech.com topics, spanning from microbes to plants to humans. All information - including free registration and free PromethION sequencing - at nanoporeflanders.be
Big delivery at the VIB Data Core! 😍
📦 📦 Two systems with B300 GPUs, an investment by @vibai.bsky.social
📦 A server with RTX 6000 GPUs
The systems will be racked and configured over the coming weeks, and the Data Core team will run full testing before integrating them into producti
The VIB Protein Core has significantly upgraded its fermentation capabilities with a new Infors Multifors 2 system. 🤩
This setup enables six simultaneous bioreactor runs, each with a final working volume of 1 L, ideal for accelerating the development of your candidate proteins.
Tech strategy is more than choosing platforms. It's about how we manage, evaluate, and improve them for lasting scientific impact.
This October, we share that approach in a hands-on workshop on KPIs.
training.vib.be/all-trainings/key-perfor...
Happy New Year from the VIB Flow Core in Leuven. 🎉
🎁 ✨ The BD FACS Discover S8 Chorus got a software upgrade
🎁 ✨ The Analyzer A1 Symphony now supports high-throughput screening in 96- and 384-well microtiter plates
More info: https://tinyurl.com/mt2vpa5y
Bring on your samples in 2026!
On HLN, Bart Ghesquière, Head of the VIB Metabolomics Core Leuven, shares his expert perspective on a recent large-scale metabolomics study exploring how a simple finger-prick blood test could help identify disease risk long before symptoms appear.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8ky4v9 (in Dutch)
For Elina Kuznecova, joining VIB meant more than starting a new job, it meant finding a team that shared her curiosity and passion for science: “I met many passionate people, including my team lead, and I knew this was the team where I wanted to work.
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py0bDtkohM
What can we expect in 2026 when it comes to life science technology?
We asked our @vibtechwatch.bsky.social team: beakon.ghost.io/we-expect-the-boundaries...
Here’s to a year of fewer walls, better tools, and smarter pipelines! ✨
Hélène Roberge from the VIB BioImaging Core Leuven won the first prize in the Awesome vEM Images 2025 competition 🏆🔬
Her image was awarded in the 'Bringing Meaning to the Data' category, recognizing computational analysis of volume electron microscopy data.
Congratulations, Hélène! 👏
Who's ready for a new challenge in 2026?
We're expanding our Tech Satellite in Antwerp and are looking for a Lab Technician to strengthen our support in Flow Cytometry & Single Cell Omics.
jobs.vib.be/j/127644/lab-technician-...
History tells two stories about transformative technology. One is the flash of discovery, the second is the decades spent building the infrastructure to make that discovery accessible. 🏗️
Reza Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh on the story of the VIB Nanobody® VHH Core 👉 https://tinyurl.com/ycxe2rp2
Next May, the Computational Cytometry Summer School returns to Ghent for its 3rd edition.
Sofie Van Gassen explains what participants can expect from this intensive hands-on program.
https://tinyurl.com/msmzk74f
Apply before 16 December 2025 ⚠️
Big VIB Technologies delegation in Antwerp today to join for the one and only #CMNday2025. 🙌|
#VIBtechies @cmn-vib.bsky.social
Great to be here to discuss how our different cores can support the research projects across VIB labs in Antwerp. 🙌
Kicking off #CMNday2025 with technology deep dives and updates from the Rademakers and @mancusorenzo.bsky.social labs, by Elise Coopman and Maxim van Hoek. 🚀
@vibtechnologies.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Daniel Cipelewski, Director of Nikon Europe, for a visit to the VIB BioImaging Core in Leuven.
A big thank you to Daniel and the Nikon Europe team for the ongoing trust and partnership. We look forward to many more years of pushing imaging boundaries together!
In her eposide of the Called to Science podcast, Elina Kuznecova shares what drives her work as lab technician at the VIB Spatial Catalyst.
🎧
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py0bDtkohM
open.spotify.com/episode/3gYKOhiWSqcsnwTT...
Making your genomic data FAIR just got a lot easier. 🧬 🚀
The VIB DataCore has developed a streamlined useGalaxy workflow that supports you in submitting raw sequencing reads and genome assemblies to ENA:
useGalaxy.be
slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17431102
#EVORA #ELIXIRbelgium
Jochen Lamote @vibflowcore-lv.bsky.social was an invited speaker at #AFC2025 in Dijon last week.
In case you missed it, here's a sneak peak 👇
VIB Technologies day 2025: Meet the flow people.! 💪☺️
We speak fluent lasers, obsessed with glowing cells and we keep the magic flowing.! 📊🧬💡
#cellsorting #flowcytometry #VIBTechnologies #squadpower
