VIB.AI and Ghent University are looking for a PI to lead a new research group at the intersection of artificial intelligence and (bio)medical research.
Apply by May 31st
๐ https://vib.ai/en/group-leader-vacancy
We launched a new Group Leader vacancy in our Center for AI & Computational Biology - VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social - with a Professorship at Ghent University. Join us with your most creative AI+Biology research plan! Apply before 31st May vib.ai/en/group-lea...
Welcoming @wsaelens.bsky.social as Group Leader at VIB.AI!
His team will build causal, experimentally grounded models of the immune system, moving from describing immune cell states to explaining what drives them and predicting how they change under perturbation.
Welcome, Wouter! ๐
The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab published CREsted, an end-to-end modeling framework to
๐งฌ Train sequence-based enhancer models on large sc datasets
๐ Decode enhancer logic with nucleotide-level interpretability
โ๏ธ Design synthetic enhancers with cell-type specificity
https://tinyurl.com/ypurmrw5
Strong showing from the Gonรงalves Lab at COSYNE 2026 ๐
Three abstracts accepted, with posters by Hayden Johnson and Karthik Sama, and a talk by Nastya Krouglova.
Check it out here๐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZMpTeVEmdc&t=2820s
We are super excited to welcome Dmitry Kobak @hippopedoid.bsky.social as a new VIB.AI group leader! The Kobak lab will officially kick off in April at the VIB.AI Ghent hub.
More:
vib.ai/en/news/dmit...
Full house today for the Methusalem BioMedAI kickoff!
The labs of @steinaerts.bsky.social, @joanampereira.bsky.social, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & Maarten De Vos came together to launch this long-term research program on explainable and generative AI for biomedical discovery.
Let's go!
The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers.
More info & how to apply ๐ https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
Weโre looking for an experienced ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ. Youโll establish and run a state-of-the-art wet lab, work closely with computational teams, and help translate AI-generated hypotheses into robust experimental workflows and high-quality training data.
https://tinyurl.com/4rf4bm8b
๐น Job alert: Postdoc Position on Deep Learning for Glioblastoma Sequence-to-Function Models at @vibai.bsky.social
๐ Leuven ๐ง๐ช
๐ jobs.vib.be/j/130090/postdoc-positio...
We are thrilled to share our new pre-print: โSystem-wide extraction of cis-regulatory rules from sequence-to-function models in human neural developmentโ. S2F-deeplearning models can accurately encode enhancers, yet decoding these models into human-interpretable rules remains a major challenge.
TF-MINDI is out! A new method to learn cis-regulatory codes through rich embeddings of TF binding sites. TF-MINDI decomposes motif neighbourhoods, and works downstream of any sequence-to-function deep learning model. We deeply study the enhancer code in human neural development, check out the thread
This is the happy face of four researchers embarking on a cool scientific collaboration backed by 7-years of structural financing!
Congrats @steinaerts.bsky.social, @joanampereira.bsky.social, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social, and Maarten De Vos on your Methusalem grant.
https://tinyurl.com/nvcardzy
Kudos to all poster presenters and congratulations to Marios Eftychiou (@jdemeul.bsky.social lab), who got the runner-up poster award, and Wannes Hermans (@joanampereira.bsky.social lab), who won the Best Poster Award ๐ ๐ #VIBAIscienceday
Great mix of talks from across all @viblifesciences.bsky.social research areas at our first-ever #VIBAIScienceDay. Sharing another mini photo dump while we digest lunch and gear up for more science this afternoon.
And we're off for a full day of VIB.AI science! ๐คฉ
What a treat to bring the entire community together from Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and Leuven, and to do so in this beautiful location.
Welcome to the church of AI in Biology. ๐
#VIBAIscienceday @viblifesciences.bsky.social
Super excited about this work led by the one and only @deismic.bsky.social!
One week left to apply! ๐จ
We are hiring for two exciting roles at the intersection of AI and life sciences:
๐ Head of the Machine Learning Expertise Unit
๐ LLM Engineer
Donโt miss your chance to apply by October 31!
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list
Such a treat to host @gioelelamanno.bsky.social (EPFL) today and be the first to hear more about his lab's latest work, posted just two days ago on bioRxiv.
Missed the talk?
Here's the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....
We're very much looking forward to your talk!
Join us: Large Language Model Engineer at VIB.AI
You'll work closely with top scientists, backed by strong infrastructure and a mission to make a lasting impact on health and society.
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Apply before October 31st
๐ https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/123988
AI and synthetic biology in the news today. ๐ฐ
@demorgen.be writes about a recent preprint describing how AI was used to design synthetic bacteriophages that target antibiotic-resistant E. coli.
๐ Article (in Dutch), with quotes by @steinaerts.bsky.social
https://tinyurl.com/bd2jxsay
We're hiring: Head for Machine Learning Expertise Unit
Youโll help deploy cutting-edge ML methods across diverse biomedical domains, from single-cell genomics to protein design.
๐ Based in Leuven, Belgium
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Apply before October 31st
๐ https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/123990
In a few weeks, the full VIB.AI community will flock together at Irish College in Leuven.
We're already looking forward to talks from all of our core and affiliated labs and a keynote by Matthew Blaschko. ๐คฉ
As our center continues to grow, weโre looking for a highly organized and proactive Administrative Assistant to help keep things running smoothly, from financial processing and logistics to travel coordination and event support.
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/122382
One month ago, we wrapped up the 2025 Machine Learning & AI in Life Sciences Summer School: a week of hands-on training, deep collaboration, and serious brainpower, co-organized by VIB and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
#ThrowbackThursday
Last week, VIB.AI researchers joined the global community at #SCG2025 in Stockholm, bringing fresh AI perspectives to one of biologyโs most data-rich frontiers.
Big thanks to the organizers and to the community for the energy, insight, and inspiration.
We're growing the VIB.AI Machine Learning Unit, and we're hiring!
๐ Head of the Machine Learning Unit
๐ LLM Engineer
Both roles are based in Leuven, Belgium, at the heart of a thriving research ecosystem.
https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list
Apply by October 31st.
The 2025 VIB.AI International PhD Call closes June 22nd.
Weโre offering 4 fully funded PhD positions across labs tackling big questions in biology with AI and machine learning, covering protein design, computational neuroscience, gene regulation, and more.
๐ https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd
Congratulations to Klaas Vandepoele @vandepoelelab.bsky.social on receiving an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant!
His multiCODE project aims to decode the regulatory code of gene expression in plants using a powerful combination of single-cell genomics, AI, and synthetic biology.
Congratulations! ๐
