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🔬 Spatial Catalyst @ VIB Technologies 📍Ghent Empowering researchers with expert spatial omics solutions – transcriptomics, proteomics & beyond.

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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sandrine Da Cruz (VIB–KU Leuven) joins #SpatialOmics2026 in Brugge. Her team studies ALS & FTD, focusing on nerve–muscle interactions and disease-driving protein changes to uncover new therapy targets. 📅 Early bird to get your tickets: 11 May 2026 #Neuroscience #ALS #FTD #Omics #Belgium
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excited to have Nick Reder (CEO, Alpenglow Biosciences) speaking on 3D pathology reveals hidden biology which combines light-sheet imaging and AI to uncover new insights in tissue biology. Abstract deadline: 20 April 2026 Still time to submit your work for our SpatialOmics Conference 2026!
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
🤩Looking forward to welcoming Wilfred Van Ijcken (Element Biosciences) to our Spatial Omics conference in Brugge. Join the conversation on the latest in spatial biology and genomics. Submit your abstract by 20 April 2026 to be a part of the programme! #SpatialOmics #Genomics #LifeSciences
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Our Harpy paper is now published in Bioinformatics 🎉 Harpy is a scalable spatial omics analysis library built with Saeyslab & VIB Spatial Catalyst, integrating with SpatialData, AnnData, Scanpy, and Squidpy. Check it out! 👇 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #SpatialOmics #Bioinformatics
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🚀 MACSima Innovation Award 2026 Have a bold idea in spatial biology? With MACSima technology available in our lab, we’re inviting researchers to propose an exploratory experiment. 📩 Send a 5-sentence proposal to Marketing_BNL@miltenyi.com 📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026 @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Amos Lee, CEO of Meteor Biotech (KR), joins the Spatial Omics Conference to share how advanced spatial technologies are enabling high-resolution insights into health and disease. 🤩Submit your work and help advance spatial biology and precision medicine. Deadline: 20 April 2026 #SpatialBiology
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚀Harpy is our open-source Python library for single-cell spatial omics analysis. Want to learn more about new features in Harpy? These will be introduced during the Spatial Omics Analysis trainings (11–12 March & 13 March 2026) 👇 training.vib.be/all-training... training.vib.be/all-training...
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Targeted spatial transcriptomics analysis
In recent years, spatial transcriptomics technologies have become increasingly accessible to researchers with the emergence of a wide array of commercially available targeted and untargeted approaches...
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Curious about spatial omics and hands-on multi-omics analysis? 🧬 Explore spatial platforms, learn SPArrOW/Harpy & Cardinal, and discover multi-omics integration strategies at our summer school. ⏰ Deadline to register: 2nd February #SpatialOmics #SpatialBiology #MultiOmics #Transcriptomic #Proteomics
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We hosted an exciting 10x Genomics event in Ghent to dive deeper into the Xenium and Visium HD platforms! 💡 Both platforms have been available here through our Spatial Catalyst team, and it was great to see so many researchers curious about how these spatial tools! @10xgenomics.bsky.social
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our team had a fantastic time at the Core4Life Conference in Barcelona 🇪🇸 An inspiring few days of connecting with core facility experts from across Europe, exchanging ideas, and exploring how emerging technologies can drive research forward💫 #Core4Life #SpatialBiology #Innovation #CoreFacilities
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Attending Imaging & Spatial Biology Days at Miltenyi! Always a pleasure to connect with researchers from around the world and to support our colleagues from the center presenting their work using MACSima platform. @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social #macsima #research #spatialproteomics
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Presented at the IRC “Hot Technology, Cool Tool” session on Friday. This sparked some lively discussions! Always exciting to share what we do at Spatial Catalyst. #IRC #ScienceTools #Spatial
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Had a great time at MACSima User Days: learned more about the tech and met amazing researchers who are also passionate about spatial proteomics! Thanks @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social for organising such an amazing event! #MACSima #SpatialProteomics
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Yesterday our Spatial Catalyst team gave a training on how to start with spatial technologies. It was such a pleasure to meet lots of curious minds! Thanks @vibtrainconf.bsky.social for your help and support in delivering this training 🙏 #SpatialOmics #SpatialTranscriptomics #VIB
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🧪Our Spatial Catalyst team had a great time attending the VIB Seminar this week! It was a fantastic opportunity to connect with other researchers, exchange ideas, and get inspired by cutting-edge science. @vibtrainconf.bsky.social @viblifesciences.bsky.social #VIBSeminars #SpatialOmics
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🧠 Following our April workshop, we're offering two hands-on courses in June focused on spatial omics data analysis! 🔗 Transcriptomics: training.vib.be/all-training... 🔗 Proteomics: training.vib.be/all-training... #SpatialOmics #DataAnalysis #VIBtraining
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Hands-on introduction to targeted spatial transcriptomics data analysis
In recent years, spatial transcriptomics technologies have become increasingly accessible to researchers with the emergence of a wide array of commercially available targeted and untargeted approaches...
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📍 On April 30th in Leuven, we’re hosting a "How to Start with Spatial Omics" workshop! 🧬 Perfect for researchers curious about spatial transcriptomics & proteomics but don't know where to start yet. 🔗 Register here: training.vib.be/all-training... #SpatialOmics #VIBtraining #LifeScience #Science
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How to start with spatial omics?
This training is a joint effort of VIB Technologies intended for scientists who want to make the leap into the field of spatial omics.
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🧠 Exciting paper using LMD to isolate single neurons from postmortem midbrain tissue! link.springer.com/protocol/10.... We’ve got an LMD7 system up and running at VIB Ghent – reach out if you're interested in laser microdissection! #SpatialOmics #LMD7 #VIB @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social
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UV-Laser Microdissection and mRNA Expression Analysis of Individual Neurons from Postmortem Parkinson’s Disease Brains
Cell specificity of gene expression analysis is essential to avoid tissue sample related artifacts, in particular when the relative number of target cells present in the compared tissues varies dramat...
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🔬LMD7 system is now live and operating! LMD7 is a high-tech microscope that uses a laser to cut out and collect regions of interest from tissue and live cell cultures. We’re now providing LMD7 trainings. Ready to join? Reach out to us via Connect! connect.vib.be/facilities/s... #SpatialCatalyst #VIB
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Spatial Catalyst @vibspatialcatalyst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Welcome to the official BlueSky account of Spatial Catalyst! 🚀 We are a team at the VIB, based in Ghent, providing cutting-edge spatial omics support! Follow us for insights into spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and the latest in spatial biology! #SpatialOmics #VIB #UGent #SpatialCatalyst
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