FunGen Lab @ UGent

Functional Genomics Lab @ Ghent University led by @SVergult focussing on neurodevelopmental disorders, part of @RAREMED1

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Yesterday, the FunGen lab was present @ the Marguerite-Marie Delacroix's Conference on "Current Directions in Autism Research and NDDs". @Norevanloon rocked her poster presentation concerning organoids & @eva_dhaene gave an excellent talk on @colombolara_ her 3D genome research.

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

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[Sarah Vergult @SVergult]

Proud of @RocioPerezBaca for doing a great job during her talk on our collaborative work on ZFHX4, co-led by María Palomares @FunGenLab @CallewaertBert #ASHG24

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

The FunGen lab was well represented at two great conferences in the last two weeks: @Norevanloon went to the EMBO workshop in Capri, IT and @colombolara_ went to Chromatin Dynamics in Munich, GER. They both rocked their poster presentation 😎! Go Team FunGen 💪🥳!

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Hooray, last week we had our first 2-day lab retreat and it was awesome 🔥! Great combination of science and fun. Big shout out to the entire team for making it such a great experience🤩 and a special thanks to @eva_dhaene and @MichaelBVaughan for all the help!

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Busy, busy, busy so a little late to the party... Congratulations 🥳👏 to our own PhD student @Norevanloon for obtaining a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen PhD fellowship! Happy she can keep on working on our shared project with @PhotoBioLab ! Go, go, go Nore!

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Throwback to last week: On Tuesday @Norevanloon gave a talk at @maf2024_spain concerning our collaborative work with @PhotoBioLab. On Thursday @hamerlinck_lisa and @SVergult presented at the 2nd NDD conference in lovely Antwerp with great support by colleague @colombolara_.

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Working in Ghent, also means (Fun)Gentse Feesten 🥳! A little bit of 🌧️ does not stop us 💪 #TeamFunGen

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Team BBQ ✅! No prove needed what the 'FUN' stands for in the FunGen lab 😋😜!

[Sarah Vergult @SVergult]

👏Today @KeithSiew gave an excellent talk on his recent @NatureComms paper on the effects of spaceflight on kidneys 👏. He got the @FunGenLab team (even more) excited about space research 🚀🧬🚀. Thanks a lot @MichaelBVaughan for inviting him and arranging all the logistics!

[Michael Vaughan @MichaelBVaughan]

A behemoth of integrated omics data finally published.
@KeithSiew & @LTubularCentre kindly brought two @UCCPhysiology boys along for the ride!
#CosmicKidneyDisease
@GradCoMH_UCC @FunGenLab @PhotoBioLab

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Throwback to last Friday: FunGenLab represent @BSCDB1 meeting 'Focus on Organoids' in Leuven, Belgium. Very inspiring talks!

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

We were lucky to have a great scientific visitor in the lab! 👇🤩

[Alessandra Grillo @_Alessandra_G]

🇧🇪 Thanks to @Co_Biologists for funding this collaboration between @LTubularCentre and @ugent @PhotoBioLab @FunGenLab using nanoparticle biosensors to characterise tubule cell function 🔬 Special thanks to my co-conspirator @MichaelBVaughan, neither of us murdered each other 😜⚔️

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Throwback to last week: Second time the FunGen team attended this lovely meeting! Great talks, great people, great food, etc. 🤩!

[Dr. Heather Mefford @hcmefford.bsky.social @hcmefford]

Always an absolute pleasure and privilege to plan / attend ‘Genetics of NDV’ meeting in quaint Troina, Sicily! SUPERB science, people, food, wine, hospitality. This meeting is a true gem, as is Sicily. #raredisease #Genetics

[FunGen Lab @ UGent @FunGenLab]

Throwback to last Friday: Team FunGen was well-represented at the yearly @BeSHGenet meeting. 🎉Great job @eva_dhaene, @RocioPerezBaca and @hamerlinck_lisa 👏👏! Lisa even scored a cool poster prize 🌟!! Congrats to our great @RAREMED1 and @cmggent colleagues too!

[Bert Callewaert @CallewaertBert]

After a 6 yr long journey, we ended the diagnostic oddysey for many individuals with ZFHX3 loss of function variants. It was a fantastic journey with many international and wonderful colleagues! Great collaboration with @SVergult and @FunGenLab! There's more to come! @AJHGNews

[Ruslan Dmitriev  @PhotoBioLab]

Congratulations to @Norevanloon from our and @FunGenLab teams! Thanks to @histochemnews @FWOVlaanderen and @BioimagingNA funding she will attend #FRET #FLIM #MetabolicImaging workshop this year! A big boost to her #neural #organoids #FOXG1 research project!

[Víctor Sánchez Gaya @SanchezGaya]

Ending one of the best weekends ever. Thx @malte_spielmann , @SVergult and @MarianRosL for joining my PhD evaluation committee, it was a true privilege. Thx Alvaro for your guidance and thx to all @RadaIglesiasLab members, family & friends for their support. Love you all ♥️

[Sarah Vergult @SVergult]

📢 If you would like to study the nuclear control of mitochondrial DNA at the single-cell level in various model systems (in particular mouse, Drosophila, and patient iPSC-derived brain organoids) and combine this with bio-informatics, go and check out these job vacancies 👇👇

[Stefan Barakat @StefanBarakat]

Thanks very much @elfridedebaere and @SVergult @FunGenLab for the invitation to visit #Ghent. Lots of cool science on #noncoding #genome ongoing!

[Sarah Vergult @SVergult]

Thanks for accepting the invitation @StefanBarakat! It was great having you in Ghent! @RAREMED1 @elfridedebaere @ugent_fge