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Laurens Pauwels

@laurenspauwels.bsky.social
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Research on #CRISPR, #Agrobacterium, plant transformation and regeneration. Professor Plant Biotechnology Ghent University, Belgium www.pauwelslab.be

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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌱 Representing MOBI at the Plant Meiosis Meeting! Last week, Marit Krul and Laura Strickx from @laurenspauwels.bsky.social lab had the opportunity to present their research at the Plant Meiosis Meeting in Poznan ( Poland) organized by @piotraz.bsky.social #meioCOntrol #PlantMeiosis #PlantScience
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BackBone Builder (B3): a modular Golden Gate standard with a compatible Agrobacterium parts library is now published in @plantphys.bsky.social ! Has been a very useful system for our lab. @psb-vib.bsky.social #PlantScience academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🌱 Great to be in Reno, NV, celebrating the 80th anniversary of @sivbbiology.bsky.social ! 🎉 A fantastic opportunity to learn about the latest advances in plant biotechnology & genome editing, while reconnecting with colleagues. #SIVB2026
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Timely preprint by @pennyhundleby.bsky.social and colleagues on the global 🌍regulatory status of gene-edited crops! 🧬🌱 zenodo.org/records/2014... Also a great initiative to maintain up-to-date global regulatory maps 🗺️ cropgeregulations.com
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Golden Gate 🧬 builds complex T-DNAs for plant transformation & gene editing — but what if we used it to make binary vector backbones? Glad to contribute to Jonas De Saeger's (Jacobs lab @psb-vib.bsky.social ) preprint on BackBone Builder 🔧🌱 tinyurl.com/4ycydjhe
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Last week we hosted our first workshop in the context of the #MeioCOntrol @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social anderen project! 🔬🧠 Researchers from @ILVO, De Storme lab @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social and Pauwels lab @mobi-ugent.bsky.social came together to learn and brainstorm about CRISPR in plants 🌿🧬
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Welcoming Anne Muia from Kenyatta University @kenyattauni.bsky.social & NBA Kenya, as she joins us for a month of lab work; via @VIB_IPBO! @fbwugent.bsky.social
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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🌿 Plant Immunity in Focus - Join us on Dec 9, 2025 at Coupure, Ghent @fbwugent.bsky.social 🕒 15:00 Melissa Mageroy (NIBIO) 🕒 15:45 @jurriaanton.bsky.social (Sheffield U) 🎓 Followed by PhD defense of Jasper Matthys at 17:00. #PlantScience #Epigenetics #PlantImmunity #UGent #DoctoralSchool
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🌱 Our latest: in Plant Biotech J we study transgenerational #CRISPR editing in #maize🌽 using a split Cas9/gRNA system, highlighting importance of event quality & choice of promoters. 👏 Christian Lorenzo, Dirk Inzé and Hilde Nelissen @fbwugent.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pbi....
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In this new paper from the Ying Wang lab in PBJ, a VIGS system for sugar beet was optimized using a BSCTV vector. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited to welcome first author Zhangyao Nie later this month to our lab on a CSC preference scholarship 🎓!
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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
🎉 Great news from MoBi! Gerard Serrat Mayayo will start as an FWO SB doctoral fellow in Prof. @laurenspauwels.bsky.social EDIT group, and Dylan Cool obtained a Baekeland mandate with Prof. Tina Kyndt (EPIC), Prof. Kris Audenaert & BASF Congrats — we look forward to 4 exciting years! 👏
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
First 🌽 maize plants for the #MeioCOntrol @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social project are now in soil at the @fbwugent.bsky.social greenhouses in Merelbeke 🌱 Together with ILVO and @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social , the EDIT group @mobi-ugent.bsky.social will use these to study meiotic recombination in crops
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Had a great week sharing our experiences on plant transformation & gene editing at the 1st @aabiologists.bsky.social PlantEd Training School, HHU Düsseldorf. Expertly organised by Goetz Hensel, with great lectures from @sadiyehayta.bsky.social, @marksmedley1.bsky.social & Katrijn Van Laere
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Our 1st PlantEd Training School is underway now in Düsseldorf! 🌱🧬 With early career scientists attending from all over the world to train up on targeted plant mutagenesis, we're happy to see them out enjoying the sights yesterday evening after a packed first day! #plantscience #earlycareer
PlantEd trainees posing across the river from the Rhine Tower in Düsseldorf PlantEd trainees on the steps in front of the mirrored pebble building in Düsseldorf
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Plant Systems Biology @psb-vib.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
PAPER from @bertderybel.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social and @laurenspauwels.bsky.social in @theplantcell.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
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KIL transcription factors facilitate embryo growth in maize by promoting endosperm elimination via lytic cell death
The transcription factors KIL1 and KIL2 promote lytic cell death, thereby facilitating embryo growth and determining the embryo-endosperm size ratio in mai
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚨 Vacancy PhD student 🚨 Passionate about #CRISPR, plant biotechnology, & breeding? Join our project on meiotic recombination in #maize 🌽 A collaboration of our lab @fbwugent.bsky.social, ILVO & @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social 🔗https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/doctoral-fellow-41
Maize seedlings expressing RUBY
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 We used single-cell RNA-seq + GRN analysis to uncover novel morphogenic genes that boost #maize transformation frequency 🌽 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to @vandepoelelab.bsky.social @bertderybel.bsky.social and all other co-authors! #PlantScience
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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our latest on cell death and our second on maize: Using single-nucleus RNAseq of maize endosperm, Nicolas Doll (now @rdplab.bsky.social‬) shows that KIL transcription factors promote endosperm cell death to facilitate embryo growth - with a genomic imprinting twist! academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...
Confocal image showing a nucleus of a maize endosperm cell expressing proNAC130:NL-mCherry counterstained with DAPI.
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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! 🍻
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🚨 #Agrobacterium2025: Abstract deadline this Monday! 🚨 Our final invited speaker: Christoph Dehio @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch — diving into β-glucan synthesis 🔬 👉 Check out this recent paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📢 Submit your abstract now: www.biw.kuleuven.be/biosyst/crop...
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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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 👉 www.kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2025 #SciComm #PhDLife #Microbiology #PlantScience
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Erh-Min Lai from Academia Sinica. Breakthrough report published this week by Chih-Horng Kuo, Erh-Min Lai and Chih-Hang Wu doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacteriu...
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Happy to announce that our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Alexandra Weisberg from @osubpp.bsky.social! Seminal paper by @weisbergaj.bsky.social here: www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! www.kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2025
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Excited to announce Prof. Patrick Shih @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 on 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium Recent publication Shih lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Abstract deadline: May 1! www.kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2025
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Just arrived in Songdo, Korea! Excited to be teaching 🌱Plant Biotechnology at Ghent University Global Campus for the next few weeks. 🎓 #GUGC @mobi-ugent.bsky.social @fbwugent.bsky.social #plantscience
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#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. www.kuleuven.be/agrobacterium2025
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Again a superb example of the power of #CRISPR gene editing in crops by Xiao-Ya Chen and Caixia Gao labs! Engineering of Coenzyme Q10 production is rice and wheat using advanced prime editing and GRAND systems to make quintuple amino acid substitutions. #plantresearch www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
March IPBO Online Café Series! ☕🌱 @laurenspauwels.bsky.social from @fbwugent.bsky.social and Prof. Runo, Kenyatta University 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
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Vacancy @AgroBioTech in Gembloux! Full-time academic position in #plantgenetics to study plant genetic resources for supporting the agroecological transition #vacancy #plantresearch www.gembloux.uliege.be/upload/docs/...
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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Very happy to see our work on deleterious mutations in #tomato published in @naturegenet.bsky.social 🧬🌱🍅! We identify deleterious mutations that were enriched during #domestication and apply #CRISPR to repair a mutation in cultivated tomato. #genetics #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Repairing a deleterious domestication variant in a floral regulator gene of tomato by base editing - Nature Genetics
A deleterious mutation in the tomato transcription factor SSP2 was enriched during domestication. Repairing the deleterious mutation in cultivated tomato by base editing leads to compact growth and ea...
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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!
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
🎉 New @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social preprint from the @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social lab and Gwen Swinnen (a former PhD student of mine 😊) on the use of GRF-GIF and RUBY for transformation and #CRISPR in 🍅 Tomato. Great work! 👏✨ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New lab, new @Cuisinart ! #labessentials www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Molecular Biotechnology – UGent @mobi-ugent.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#CRISPR is revolutionizing plant breeding. However, plant transformation remains an obstacle. The 1st MoBi group we introduce is Plant Transformation & Gene Editing @laurenspauwels.bsky.social studying the processes behind #Agrobacterium mediated transformation & plant regeneration. #plantscience
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Laurens Pauwels @laurenspauwels.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
First post on @bsky.app highlighting our collaboration with Ana Caño lab (CRAG) on on using BBM/WUS-technology and a ternary vector system to transform #sorghum and maize. Now published in @theplantjournal.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social #Agrobacterium
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