PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

My lab is recruiting a postdoc on an FWO/FNRS funded project. Interested in researching how secondary metabolites from beneficial bacteria trigger immune responses in plants? Apply here: https://t.co/V63xhKtjPo @lab_php @CropBioLeuven @LeuvenPlantInst @biosystkuleuven

[Agrobacterium2023 @Agrobacterium23]

Let’s start the Agrobacterium23 Conference @I2BCParisSaclay with a great talk of Barbara De Coninck @Barbaraconinck from KU Leuven @LeuvenPlantInst on the development of tools to unravel the interaction between rhizogenes agrobacteria and plant roots

[Savio Rodrigues @RodriguesSav]

NGTs can provide us with plants which are climate resilient, require reduced input of pesticides/fertilizers and/or possess higher nutritional value. The possibilities with NGTs are endless and can lead us to a green future!
#GiveGenesAChance
@GeneSprout @oekoprog @letsreplanet

[Sophien Kamoun @KamounLab]

And now it’s the plant pathologists at #TRIC23 kicking it off with @BarbaraConinck @KULeuvenOpenSc

Chair: Julia Bailey-Serres

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Want to learn more on how to control plant diseases with microorganisms. Visit @lab_php @CropBioLeuven on 27/05 from 5 pm onwards in the #plantscience jungle @nerdlandbe festival

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

🎉 Huge congrats to @RodriguesSav for securing a prestigious @FWOVlaanderen postdoctoral fellowship in collaboration with @lab_php and @LaurensPauwels . 🌱 Excited to see him dive further into the fascinating interaction between rhizogenic agrobacteria and Arabidopsis 🔬🧪

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

With cutting-edge omics technologies the @GoossensLabVIB uncovered an exciting novel function of the RolB protein. A very nice and rewarding collaboration which started six years ago when some labs joint forces to study the interaction between tomato and rhizogenic agrobacteria.

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Image contest for #Rooting2023 ending soon. Maybe your image will be selected as cover for this meeting!

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Busy week @lab_php. @YijieZhao8 presented her work on strawberry and Botrytis at #ISC2022, @VanLoockeKilian presented his work on lettuce and biocontrol at SABB and @Heba_M_Ibrahim presented her work on induced systemic resistance at the EOS FWO-FNRS workshop. Well done!

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Here we go, looking forward to our 3-day workshop on cyclic lipopeptides from beneficial bacteria. All partners of the EOS FWO-FNRS Rhizoclip project will present their results @FWOVlaanderen

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Liese Vlasselaer presenting her recent PhD work on the microbiome of hydroponically grown lettuce upon infection with Phytophthora cryptogea @miCROPe_org. Research in collaboration with @lab_php and @bartlievens1. Proud supervisor 🥬

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

We had a very fruitful first day of our writing retreat. Tomorrow we’ll finish those manuscripts 😀@lab_php

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Today we also celebrated my lab technician’s 40th year @KU_Leuven. She helped me to start up the @lab_php 5 years ago and she is still enthusiastically helping students, PhD students and postdocs with their experiments 🧫🔬🌱

[Savio Rodrigues @RodriguesSav]

Eagerly looking forward towards your talk @GoossensLabVIB 😃
Very curious and excited 😄

[Agrobacterium2021 @Agromeeting]

Please join us at the online Agrobacterium 2021 meeting which will be organized by @BarbaraConinck @LaurensPauwels @GoossensLabVIB and Hans Rediers on 11-12 October 2021

[Stefan Kusch @stefan_kusch]

Open post-doc position in the Panstruga lab at RWTH Aachen #postdocjobs : https://t.co/qKTukArbbc ! Apply if you're excited about the cell biology in plant-pathogen interactions! The position involves teaching (also in German). Great lab, colleagues, and environment!

[Bram Van de Poel 🌈 @bramvandepoel]

Honored to be part of a new KU Leuven Institute: the Leuven Plant Institute. We combine the power of fundamental and applied plant, ecological and agricultural research to combat the challenges of the future using plant-based solutions.

[Barbara De Coninck 🌱🌈 @BarbaraConinck]

Together with my first PhD student @RodriguesSav and his co-supervisor @LaurensPauwels we aimed at optimizing the generation of #Agrobacterium mutants in order to study their interaction with plants. So happy to see our work being published. https://t.co/ZjlvUScdHY

[Savio Rodrigues @RodriguesSav]

Extremely delighted to share our research into "engineering the engineer" which is now out 👨‍🔧🦠🌱

Efficient CRISPR-mediated base editing in Agrobacterium spp. https://t.co/jxtZSbZ60R

Very grateful to all co-authors 😁
@LaurensPauwels @BarbaraConinck

[PHP-Lab 🍓🍅🌈 @lab_php]

Being a PI can be sometimes stressful, especially when projects are not immediately granted. However, having a very nice group with amazing people makes up for a lot. I do think that they want me to relax a little bit more 😊