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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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We sent out our first newsletter of 2024 today! 📢 ✨ Missed it? No worries! Subscribe to get all of our updates straight to your inbox! 📩 vib.ai/en/connect

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Access to state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and expertise is just one of the many perks if you join us to lead your research group. Check and share our call - the application deadline is Jan 31st! vib.ai/en/opportuni...

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📣 We're excited to announce the opening of multiple faculty positions! Do you use and/or develop artificial intelligence methods and mechanistic mathematical models to address fundamental questions in biology? We'd love to hear from you. (Please share far and wide 🙏)

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