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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congratulations to Lobke Sips, Liam Jenkins, Jens Coture and Inge Van Bogaert for their recent publication in Biotechnology and Bioengineering! Read all about it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/bit....

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congratulations to Hannelore Wilssens, Lien De Wannemaeker and Marjan De Mey for their recent publication in FEMS Microbiology Reviews! Read all about multistrain engineered living materials here 👉 academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Today we welcome our four new FWO PhD Fellowship recipients! They will begin four new projects, expanding our work on plant secondary metabolite production, cell factory development, engineered living materials and metal recovery. We wish them the best of luck with this new chapter.

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Luna Declerck, Florent Bouchon, Wouter Demeester, Chiara Guidi and Marjan De Mey for their recent publication in Biotechnology Advances! They review the ways to accelerate ALE. Read all about ALE acceleration here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m0Vn2d7Ir...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Two weeks ago, our colleagues, Hannelore Wilssens and Marc Kessels Solé, participated in the NextGen Materials 2025 conference. Thank you to the German Society for Materials Science for the opportunity to share their work. #NextGenMaterials2025 #ELM #biotechnology #conference #talk #synbio

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Jasmine De Baets, Irene Parmentier, Brecht De Paepe and Marjan De Mey for their recent publication in New Biotechnology! Read all about the expansion of the quorum sensing toolbox here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Jasmine de Baets, @brechtdepaepe.bsky.social and @mademey.bsky.social for their publication on characterizing orthogonal quorum sensing systems for synthetic biology in New Biotechnology! Read all about the two systems here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Characterization and orthogonality assessment of two quorum sensing systems for synthetic biology applications

Quorum sensing systems have a broad range of applications within the field of synthetic biology. However, a bottleneck is the optimization and tuning …

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🏆 NOMINATION ALERT 🏆 Our CSB colleague @chiaraguidi.bsky.social got nominated for the 'Wijste Gentenaar' as founder and CEO of B-COS! B-COS aims to make the agricultural sectore more sustainable by creating innovative plant vaccins.🪴🔬 Vote here 👉 dewijstegentenaar.eventsite.be/page/117/Ste...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

📣 Publication Alert! 📣 Congrats to Carlos Alvarez, Koen Beerens, Tom Desmet and all co-authors for their latest publication called: "Protein flexibility drives sugar rotation and high substrate promiscuity in a GDP-sugar 4-epimerase" Check out the full article here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

📢 CSB at the International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025! 🌎 PhD students Miguel and Carla took the stage to present their cutting-edge work in #proteinlanguagemodels, #biosensor and #geneticcircuits. Thanks to Isobionics and WUR for the organization!

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🍄 Publication Alert! 🍄 👏 Congrats to @alexwindels.bsky.social, Luna Declerck & all co-authors for their latest publication in #JAFC (@pubs.acs.org)! They combined #biocatalysis & #precisionfermentation to convert mushroom chitin waste into valuable chitinpentaose. #Sustainability🌱

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Wouter Demeester, @brechtdepaepe.bsky.social, @chiaraguidi.bsky.social & @mademey.bsky.social for the publication of their review in Biological Reviews! Read all about bet-hedging and the relation to chitin degradation here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢 Art-Science collaborations: What counts as knowledge? Who counts as a colleague? What counts as an outcome? Read all about in our latest article 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congrats to all authors!

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT! 📢 Congrats to Friederike Mey & Gaetan De Waele for combining their #synbio and #ML power to improve in vivo chitooligosaccharides production! Read the full article here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MachineLearning #Metabolomics #Biotech

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT📢 Congrats to Jungho Lee, Iris Cornet, Kristien De Sitter and Inge Van Bogaert for their collaborative work on "Turning the non-pathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola into a powerful long-chain dicarboxylic acid production host" 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢 New review paper out by Brecht De Paepe & Marjan De Mey in ACS Synthetic Biology! With the end of the year in sight, this review discusses lots of biosensor research opportunities for 2025! 🚀 Read the paper here👇 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Last week, Dr. Emma De Beul successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Exploring and engineering the substrate specificity of glycoside hydrolases and phosphorylases." Today, we celebrate not only this incredible achievement but also her birthday! Congratulations and happy birthday Emma 🥳

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Centre for Synthetic Biology @csbugent.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

🎤 CSB at #NGSB24 Luna Declerck, Hamza Malik & Carla Piñeira presented part of the MEMO-research at #NGSB24. Luna even took the stage and pitched her research! Our PI Marjan De Mey presented our scale-up work in an invited talk. Thanks @viblifesciences.bsky.social for organizing this event!

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