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Research on #CRISPR, #Agrobacterium, plant transformation and regeneration. Professor Plant Biotechnology Ghent University, Belgium http://www.pauwelslab.be

Laurens Pauwels

In this new paper from the Ying Wang lab in PBJ, a VIGS system for sugar beet was optimized using a BSCTV vector. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Excited to welcome first author Zhangyao Nie later this month to our lab on a CSC preference scholarship 🎓!

🌱 Great to be in Reno, NV, celebrating the 80th anniversary of @sivbbiology.bsky.social ! 🎉 A fantastic opportunity to learn about the latest advances in plant biotechnology & genome editing, while reconnecting with colleagues. #SIVB2026

Welcoming Anne Muia from Kenyatta University @kenyattauni.bsky.social & NBA Kenya, as she joins us for a month of lab work; via @VIB_IPBO! @fbwugent.bsky.social

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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 🌿🧬

🌱 Our latest: in Plant Biotech J we study transgenerational #CRISPR editing in #maize🌽 using a split Cas9/gRNA system, highlighting importance of event quality & choice of promoters. 👏 Christian Lorenzo, Dirk Inzé and Hilde Nelissen @fbwugent.bsky.social @psb-vib.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pbi....

Timely preprint by @pennyhundleby.bsky.social and colleagues on the global 🌍regulatory status of gene-edited crops! 🧬🌱 zenodo.org/records/2014... Also a great initiative to maintain up-to-date global regulatory maps 🗺️ cropgeregulations.com

First 🌽 maize plants for the #MeioCOntrol @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social project are now in soil at the @fbwugent.bsky.social greenhouses in Merelbeke 🌱 Together with ILVO and @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social , the EDIT group @mobi-ugent.bsky.social will use these to study meiotic recombination in crops

Golden Gate 🧬 builds complex T-DNAs for plant transformation & gene editing — but what if we used it to make binary vector backbones? Glad to contribute to Jonas De Saeger's (Jacobs lab @psb-vib.bsky.social ) preprint on BackBone Builder 🔧🌱 tinyurl.com/4ycydjhe

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🌿 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

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🎉 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! 👏

Molecular Biotechnology – UGent