Back-to-back recognition! 💪🏼 A huge shoutout to Arnau @arnauvich.bsky.social and Jeroen Raes for once again making @clarivate.com global #HighlyCited2025 list! 🌍✨ @viblifesciences.bsky.social @vibmicrobes.bsky.social clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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Last Friday, we had the pleasure of attending the very first Belgian Microbiome Network Symposium in Antwerp!
Huge shoutout to @ruvaur.bsky.social, Sarah Ahannach and Ludovica Marinelli for organizing this great new initiative and bringing the community together!✨
Tiny scientists in action! 🧫 At the #Kinderuniversiteit @uzleuven.bsky.social, kids explored bacteria on their hands, in their guts, and under the microscope! @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Truly honored and grateful 🙏 to be awarded the Gut Microbiota International Grant 2026 from the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation!
We are ready to explore some exciting fundamental microbial ecology questions regarding microbiome resilience.🦠
👉 www.biocodexmicrobiotafoundation.com/internationa...
Emma Lemmens shares highlights from her research stay in Turku. At the Hanhineva lab, she explored untargeted metabolomics within the HealthFerm project.
The experience boosted her confidence and showed how a PhD is also about growth, connection, and new perspectives.
👉 blog.vib.be/two-weeks-in...
Ethical partnerships matter 🌎
Congrats to our colleague @rytito.bsky.social for this inspiring work with the Matsés Peoples from the Peruvian Amazon 🇵🇪 showing how culturally informed, trust-based collaboration can strengthen microbiome research 🧫✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We’re hiring!
We are looking for a Clinical Studies Coordinator to support our microbiome research at the Raes lab (KU Leuven).
Work on international clinical studies, from ethics and documentation to coordination with partners.
Apply by 2 April 2026 via KU Leuven:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Big congrats to our colleague @krukowskihubert.bsky.social
on the Nature Microbiology paper linking gut transit time and diet to CKD microbiome changes. Another step in microbiome research!🧫
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great to be in Seoul for @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social!
Today, Jeroen Raes presented "The Human Gut Microbiome: Variation, Diagnostics and Modulation". Excited to see researchers from across the globe come together to discuss new findings, exchange ideas, and inspire future collaborations! #IHMC2026
Three days of interesting discussions and new insights into host–microbiome dynamics at #CSMicrobiome2026 in Bruges, organized by @cellpressevents.bsky.social
Congratulations @arnauvich.bsky.social for presenting his poster: Uncovering gut microbiome dynamics through dense longitudinal sampling
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A covariate-aware analysis reveals that microbiome changes in the gut of patients with chronic kidney disease are better explained by intestinal transit time than by kidney function.
Including Indigenous Peoples in microbiome research is both a scientific imperative and an ethical responsibility. Our long-standing partnership with …
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Lemmens (PhD student in the Raes lab) dives into untargeted metabolomics and ice-cold water during her research stay in a Finnish university town.
