The lab is delighted to co-host two FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship winners Dr Melia Bonnamy and Dr Clement Barré-Villeneuve together with the Vanderschuren lab!

The lab has been awarded a coveted FWO-SBO grant worth EUR 1.8 million for strategic basic research in plant virology. We will lead this project in collaboration with the Vanderschuren Lab, the VIB Screening Core and ILVO!

The lab was featured on the Belgian TV channel Trends/KanaalZ in a segment on the upcoming EU Parliament vote to approve gene edited crops in Europe. Watch here

PhD Student Julia Zalder presented her research on energy-efficient lighting in horticulture at the Young Researcher’s Symposium on Plant Photobiology in the UK!

PhD student Zhi Xing Lau’s first paper has been published as a Tansley Insights article in New Phytologist. We discuss our recent findings that plants can sense twilight and its implications on new ideas on how plants sense the length of a day. Read it here!

PhD student, Julia Zalder (co-supervised with the Van de Poel lab) has been awarded a FWO-SBO PhD Fellowship!

PhD student Aisha’s first paper has been published as a Tansley Insight in New Phytologist, one of the best-regarded journals in plant science! Read it here.

Devang joined the Belgian Economic Mission to India led by HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium to strengthen KU Leuven’s ties to research institutions in the country!

The lab received the maximum possible 2 project grants from the Research Foundation Flanders to supercharge our proteomics-enabled research! Read more.

Julia joins us from the University of Münster, Germany to work on a VLAIO project for improving energy efficiency using nature-inspired lighting strategies in greenhouse horticulture.

We welcome Zhi Xing Lau, who joins us from Academia Sinica, Taiwan for a PhD on developing new tools to study bimolecular interactions controlled by the plant circadian clock!

Our discovery that plants are able to measure the duration of twilight via clock genes has just been published in Science Advances, a highly selective journal. Read the paper.

The lab was awarded a VLAIO-LA grant together with the lab of Bram Van de Poel and colleagues at different research stations in Flanders. Read more.

The prominent science magazine Nature covered Devang’s past opinion article writing in a feature article. Read it here

PhD student Aisha-Alexandra Gerhardt has been awarded a prestigious 4 year PhD fellowship from the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO). Congratulations Aisha!

PhD student Aisha-Alexandra Gerhardt won the Best Poster Award at the 5th National PhD Symposium on Molecular Plant Physiology held at the University of Ghent.

Devang authored a World view article in Nature commenting on the new EU proposal to regulate gene-edited crops. Read it here.

Read the preprint reporting our latest discovery at bioRxiv.

Devang was presented with the Carl Douglas Award at the 2023 Canadian Society of Plant Biology conference!

Devang was an invited guest at this global science policy conference to discuss forthcoming EU legislative proposals on gene editing and sustainable agriculture.