Frontrunner programs

Light Microscopy

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Revolutionizing Light Microscopy: Unveiling GLiM, Your Core for Cutting-Edge Imaging Excellence
   Herlinde De Keersmaecker
2. Mastering Imaging Challenges: Overcoming High Background Fluorescence and Low Target Expression
   Iulia-Aneta Dénes
3. Unlocking Secrets: Live Organoids Revealed with Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
   Ruslan Dmitriev
4. Exploring Drinking Water Biofilms through Confocal Microscopy
   Fien Waegenaar
5. Unwrapping Plant Functioning: Exploring Promoters and Gene Expression by Advanced Light Microscopy
   Koen Gistelinck
6. Affordable Transcriptomics and Proteomics: Advanced Cellular Insights with Laser Microdissection
   Ward de Spiegelaere

Innovative Sustainable Blue solutions

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. 00:00 Introduction of the Marine@UGent core facility
   Jana Asselman / Colin Janssen
2. 4:50 Introducing the labs - Vicky Pauwelyn
3. 6:10 Saltwater wave flume -  Maximilian Streicher / Dries Bonte / Maarten De Rijcke
4. 12:15 Multispecies hatcheries -  Olivier De Clerck / Annelies Declercq
5. 15:45 Marine biotech facilities -  Silke Lambert
6. 17:48 Unique location
   Eveline Diopere
7. 20:30 Transdisciplinary cooperation
   Sara Vandamme / Veroline Cauberghe

Sustainable Crop Bioassays

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Frontrunners in Sustainable Crop Bioassays - CropFit Services
   Sabina Bajda-Wybouw/ Kris Audenaert
2. CropFit Services: Environment for the detection of the hormonal effects of new compounds in plants
   Stefaan Werbrouck
3. CropFit Services: Biopesticides and Biological Control Agents
   Wim Jonckheere
4. CropFit Services: Real-world Biopesticide and Biostimulant Testing
   Geert Haesaert

Next Generation Sequencing

Infrastructure and Expertise

• Frontrunners in SEEquencing: Sequencing the Unsequenceable, Overcoming Obstacles with Expertise
  Wim Van Criekinge

High-Throughput Experimentation

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Designing new molecules to fight stroma-rich tumors
   Chris Stevens
2. High-Throughput Experimentation: Increase efficiency and output in chemical discovery
   Jonas Everaert

Synthetic Biology

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Leveraging Synthetic Biology for Cutting-Edge Value-Added Product Production
   Koen Beerens
2. Rare Sugar Biosynthesis for Unique Sweeteners, Pharmaceuticals, and More
   Koen Beerens
3. Developing biosensors for high-throughput screening in synthetic biology
   Brecht De Paepe / Marjan De Mey

Innovative and Sustainable Processing of Vegetables and Potatoes

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Frontrunners in Innovative and Sustainable Processing of Vegetables and Potatoes
   Imca Sampers
2. A journey from Idea to Pilot Trials in Sustainable Food Packaging
   Frank Devlieghere
3. Innovative Value Creation from Food Processing Byproducts
   Katleen Raes
4. Safeguarding a sustainable food processing chain from pilot to full scale
   Imca Sampers
5. Secrets to Processing the Perfect Belgian Fries from Potatoes
   Bruno De Meulenaer

X-ray Computed Tomography

Infrastructure and Expertise

1. Frontrunners in X-ray Computed Tomography
2. Cutting-Edge Imaging: Inside the X-Ray Computed Tomography Core Facility
3. iMatch Platform
   Arjen Mascini
4. Developing novel methodologies in µCT using flexible and open systems
   Matthieu Boone / Luc Van Hoorebeke / Jan Aelterman
5. The science of porous rocks: From preserving our built cultural heritage to storing renewable energy deep below the ground
   Tom Bultreys / Veerle Cnudde
6. Unveiling the inner secrets of wood with X-ray glasses on: from living trees to wood in construction
   Jan Van den Bulcke / Joris Van Acker
7. X-ray MicroCT Shows How Soil Microbes Flourish in Organic, Water, and Air Phases
   Steven Sleutel
8. Diving into tree vessels: revealing embolism formation with micro-CT
   Kathy Steppe

Meet the EU team