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Join the @steinaerts.bsky.social Lab via the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025! Use ML to decode how DNA sequences control gene activity. Work with single-cell & spatial genomics, deep learning models, and CRISPR validation. 📍 Leuven 🗓️ Apply by June 22nd → https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

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The @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social lab is recruiting a PhD student via the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025! Join to develop machine learning tools for neuroscience, focusing on simulation-based inference & neural circuit modeling. 📍 Leuven 🗓️ Apply by June 22 → https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd

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The Vorobieva Lab is recruting a PhD student through the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025! Work on protein design, membrane proteins & nanopores using AI-driven methods. 📍 Based in Brussels 🗓️ Apply by June 22→ https://vib.ai/en/vibai-international-phd-call-2025 📅 Start in Autumn/Winter '25/26

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Looking to start or relocate your lab? We're hiring Group Leaders to join our growing center at the intersection of AI and biology. Based in Belgium (Leuven or Ghent) Start: Q1/2 2026 Deadline: June 14, 2025 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/110906 Please share!

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"Crazy, chaotic, tiring, but extremely exciting!" That’s how @joanampereira.bsky.social sums up the first months of launching her lab at VIB.AI, combining deep learning, network analysis, and bioinformatics to study protein diversity and evolution. 👉 https://blog.vib.be/meet-joana-pereira

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Cool positions for AI x biology in Belgium!

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VIB.AI's International PhD call is now open! https://tinyurl.com/53nc9vnd If you're interested in applying AI to biology, take a look at the PhD projects across our labs. 🗓️ Deadline: June 22nd

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In Episode 4 of @viblifesciences.bsky.social's brand new podcast Called to Science, @steinaerts.bsky.social reflects on the realities of doing science. 🎧 tinyurl.com/2wzmvymm

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🔥 Just published! Thrilled to share that our work on funkyheatmap has just been published in the Journal of Open Source Software 🎉

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Don't miss the opportunity to join the Machine Learning in Life Sciences Summer School, organized by @viblifesciences.bsky.social and @sib.swiss. Expect a dynamic hackathon-style format with expert guidance and inspiring lectures. ✉️ Submit your application by Tue! https://tinyurl.com/krvaajwb

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We are looking for additional Group Leaders to join the growing computational biology community at VIB. If you are excited about combining AI and machine learning with fundamental biology, we would love to hear from you! https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/110906

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🚨PhD position in AI in Microbiology! We’re looking for a PhD researcher passionate about developing automated systems for microbiological research. 🌍 More info & apply: jobs.vib.be/j/109363/phd... @vibmicrobes.bsky.social @vibai.bsky.social

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We released our preprint on the CREsted package. CREsted allows for complete modeling of cell type-specific enhancer codes from scATAC-seq data. We demonstrate CREsted’s robust functionality in various species and tissues, and in vivo validate our findings: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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New tool 💪 from @steinaerts.bsky.social lab: CREsted, a DL-based approach for predicting cell type-specific reg. elements, applying it to many datasets, incl. mouse cortex, human PBMCs & glioblastoma, demonstrating its ability to identify key TF binding sites: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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@joanampereira.bsky.social is off to an amazing start of her lab at vib.ai, congrats to the team !

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Congratulations to @joanampereira.bsky.social on being awarded a prestigious FWO Odysseus grant! 🙌 The grant will power the growth of her newly established lab at VIB.AI and the KU Leuven Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.

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How can AI help us unlock the next era of medicine? @tijd.be spoke to @yvansaeys.bsky.social (VIB-UGent), Tom Taghon (UGent) and Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge) about the @humancellatlas.org and how efforts in Ghent contribute to it. 📰 https://tinyurl.com/y292t9es 📸 ©Jonas Lampens

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Fantastic study and collaboration led by stellar postdoc @ioansarr.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to host you in the lab (& thanks to @embo.org for the visiting fellowship)

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How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Camiel Mannens, postdoc in the Aerts lab, on obtaining an MSCA fellowship to investigate how genes control brain cell types across different species. 👏

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The start of a fantastic adventure!

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👩‍💻 By integrating #AnimalResearch and new approaches, we create a path toward clearer, more robust insights Researchers at @vibai.bsky.social & @viblifesciences.bsky.social used AI on human & animal data to reveal how brain cells evolved in the last 300M years

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KU Leuven turns 600(!) this year and is celebrating with a public event this weekend! The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is offering guided lab tours. Want a behind-the-scenes look? All tours on Saturday are full, but you can still register for Sunday! www.kuleuven.be/600years/exp...

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This has been a fantastic adventure - to capture the genomic regulatory code underlying brain cell types (using deep learning models trained on chromatin accessibility), and then use these models to compare cell types between the bird and mammalian brain

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In a new study, Nikolai Hecker, Niklas Kempynck et al. in the team of @steinaerts.bsky.social explore 300 million years of brain evolution through the lens of enhancer codes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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It's difficult to translate this headline quoting our Science Director @steinaerts.bsky.social, but suffice it to say that the enormous potential of AI in research amazes even the experts at times. Nice comprehensive article in De Morgen this week [in Dutch] 👇 www.demorgen.be/beter-leven/...

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🚨 We're hiring! Join the University of Antwerp as a Postdoc in Molecular AI. 🔬 Develop AI for billion-scale metabolomics data & explore small molecules as life's building blocks. 📍 Antwerp, Belgium 🗓️ Apply now: bit.ly/4gpl4e7 #PostDoc #Metabolomics #ResearchJobs #MolecularAI #vacancy #bioinformatics

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Congratulations to Thomas Guiziou (VIB-VIB Center of Structural Biology) and Tom Luijts (Cancer Research Institute Ghent), who won the awards for the two best posters of the day! 👏 #VIBAIsymposium

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Great start of the new VIB.AI center at the #VIBAIsymposium Looking forward to collaborate on exciting new research projects #AI #synthetic

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We close the day with beers and... snow! 🍻❄️ Thank you to all the speakers for their fantastic talks, sponsors for their support, and all participants for joining! See you at the next edition! #VIBAIsymposium

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Full house and a filled schedule today. Some snapshots of the last session of the day, with talks by @benlehner.bsky.social, David Kelley and Tanja Kortemme. 📸 #VIBAIsymposium

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Fantastic start of the #VIBAIsymposium this morning with a welcome by our scientific director @steinaerts.bsky.social and talks by Julien Gagneur and @avsecz.bsky.social

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Good morning! Ready to welcome you at #VIBAIsymposium.

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🚨The future Pereira lab is hiring! We will start at @vibai.bsky.social in Feb 2025 and are looking for a postdoc to join our team 🤓 If you want to leverage AI and large networks to explore and understand the protein universe 🌌, check below! deadline: 21 Nov 2024 jobs.vib.be/j/93314/post...

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Looking forward to the Inaugural Symposium of the Center for AI & Computational Biology vib.ai with a great line-up of speakers at the interface of AI & biology: D. Kelley, J. Gagneur, Z. Avsec, T. Kortemme, B. Lehner, F. Fraternali, A. Tanay & O. Stegle (20Nov) www.vibconferences.be/events/vibai...

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We're thrilled to announce Joana Pereira will join VIB.AI as group leader! Her pioneering research combines deep learning, network analysis, and bioinformatics to investigate protein diversity and evolution. 👉 vib.ai/en/news/joan... Welcome aboard, Joana!

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We are looking forward to the first edition of the VIB.AI symposium on Nov 20th, bringing together the local research community working at the intersection of AI and biology. Our speaker lineup covers talks on AI applications in genomics, single-cell and spatial technologies, proteomics, imaging...

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We’re launching our new group leader call 👉 2 open positions in Leuven 👉 2 positions in Ghent We are recruiting both junior and senior profiles, who use and develop AI methods and mechanistic mathematical models to address fundamental questions in biology. vib.ai/en/opportuni...

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We're at the #VIBseminar24 today! Fantastic to open this general assembly with a session on AI & Computational Biology and an intro on VIB.AI's mission and unique approach.

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⏳ 10 days left to register for Applications of Quantum Computing in Life Sciences taking place on 6 May 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. Join for insights into quantum computing concepts, technology, and real-world applications in life sciences. www.vibconferences.be/events/appli...

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Only a few days until our SCENIC+ webinar. Don't miss out and register to join! 👇

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Excited to announce our upcoming webinar on SCENIC+: a Python package for constructing enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks from single-cell multiomics data! Join us on March 26th, 5pm CET. Register here: forms.gle/cVP3tW17fnJY...

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DEADLINE APPROACHING: We are recruiting a Senior Bioinformatician / Biomedical Data Scientist for our research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine & the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the Medical University of Vienna. Details: cemm.onlyfy.jobs/job/qy9y9wl6

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Wow! Nature Methods' overview of their favorite papers published in 2023 includes the Aerts lab's work on SCENIC+. 🤩 Congratulations to the entire team. 🙌 We're excited to announce that a SCENIC+ #webinar is in the works. Stay tuned for more details. 👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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