Last week we hosted our first workshop in the context of the #MeioCOntrol @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social anderen project! 🔬🧠 Researchers from @ILVO, De Storme lab @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social and Pauwels lab @mobi-ugent.bsky.social came together to learn and brainstorm about CRISPR in plants 🌿🧬
Freshly out of the lab! Excited to share the results of a great collaboration between the Laurens Pauwels lab @laurenspauwels.bsky.social and the lab of @hildenelissen.bsky.social We developed and validated more efficient CRISPR layouts using a split-cross Cas9/gRNA system in maize !!!
Association of Applied Biologists
🌿 Plant Immunity in Focus - Join us on Dec 9, 2025 at Coupure, Ghent @fbwugent.bsky.social
🕒 15:00 Melissa Mageroy (NIBIO)
🕒 15:45 @jurriaanton.bsky.social (Sheffield U)
🎓 Followed by PhD defense of Jasper Matthys at 17:00.
#PlantScience #Epigenetics #PlantImmunity #UGent #DoctoralSchool
🎉 Great news from MoBi!
Gerard Serrat Mayayo will start as an FWO SB doctoral fellow in Prof. @laurenspauwels.bsky.social EDIT group, and Dylan Cool obtained a Baekeland mandate with Prof. Tina Kyndt (EPIC), Prof. Kris Audenaert & BASF
Congrats — we look forward to 4 exciting years! 👏
🌱Can smart polymer design unlock plant RNAi?
Paper from GLYCO shows that guanidinylated polymers enable safe & efficient dsRNA delivery in plant cells —improving stability, uptake, and transient gene silencing.
A big step for RNAi-based crop protection🌿 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
