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Our journey.

BEST abstract PRESENTATION ONCODOT2

1/27/2021

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Today CRIG organized their second online OncoDot meeting and for the second time our entire team was present.

Lynn did a fantastic talk and was awarded for her abstract presentation ‘Integration of genomics and transcriptomics to identify DNA damage defects in PID
patients with a cancer predisposition’.

We want to thank the organization, looking forward to OncoDot3!
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Latest Paper Jeroen

12/10/2020

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Jeroen's his paper 'Zebrafish as an in vivo screening tool to establish PARP inhibitor efficacy ' is accepted and published in DNA Repair, you can find it here.
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Dr. Jeroen

12/9/2020

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17/12/2020

​Finally the day has come, Jeroen held his Public PhD defense of his doctoral dissertation entitled
​‘Zebrafish as a model to study DNA repair and developmental defects following loss of BRCA2 or ATM'.

Jeroen did a perfect job! So from now on it's Dr. Vierstraete, congrats!

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PromethION webinar

12/9/2020

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NXTGNT purchased a PromethION from Oxford Nanopore. This new sequencer will be available to our research group in the future.
To get familiar with the appliance Bram joined the online mini-symposium hosted by the company on 10/12/2020.
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Nanopore Community Meeting 2020

12/9/2020

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Early December Oxford Nanopore hosted their annual Community Meeting, online this year of course.
From our lab Bram, Kim and Mattias attended.
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digital MLPA by MRC HOLLAND

12/9/2020

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​MRC Holland launched a new kit that combines MLPA with NGS.
Bram joined the webinar of the firm and already tested the new kit in our lab.

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Rare-Med Consortium

12/9/2020

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On 27 november the virtual kick-off symposium of the Rare-Med Consorium took place.
Our whole research group joined and enjoyed the great talks, among which the great talk of our own teammember Lynn Backers about missing heritability in a rare disease, Bloom Syndrome.
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First paper for Lynn

10/29/2020

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Lynn her first paper 'Missing heritability in Bloom syndrome: First report of a deep intronic variant leading to pseudo-exon activation in the BLM gene' was accepted and published in Clinical Genetics. Find it here.
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Best Storm Session Presentation OncoDot1

10/7/2020

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After a whole period of scientific silence, our entire team was able to attend the first online OncoDot meeting organized by CRIG.​

Charlotte was awarded for her storm session presentation ‘ISOLATION AND ENGRAFTMENT OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS INTO ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS TO PREDICT TUMOR RESPONSE OF OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS’ at OncoDot1, congrats!

We want to thank the organization, looking forward to OncoDot2!
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ENIGMA meeting 2020

7/1/2020

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Prof. Claes had a talk on the ENIGMA meeting about long read sequencing.
​Jeroen, Mattias, Greet and Bram attended.
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ONT London Calling 2020

7/1/2020

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Due to the coronavirus pandemic Oxford Nanopore Technology held their annual London Calling this year online. Kim, Mattias, Greet and Bram attended the whole meeting.
​There was a training session about 'how to load a flongle', therefore the company shipped a demo kit so Bram could learn about the flongle.
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Poster presentation Kim at the ESHG

7/1/2020

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From 6-9 june the annual European Society of Human Genetics were held online, Kim attended for our lab and had a poster presentation.
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A new certificate for Lynn

6/16/2020

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Lynn got a certificate for the interuniversity postgraduate course in Human Genetics organised by the Belgian Society of Human Genetics (BeSHG). Congratulations!

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Coming soon: Jeroens PhD defence

6/12/2020

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On monday 22/06 Jeroen will submit his doctorate!
This will discuss the role of brca2 and atm in zebrafish, and how this can be used for scientific research in humans.
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BESHG 2020

3/18/2020

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06/03/2020
Despite the emerging coronavirus, we went with almost the entire team to Brussel. There we visited the annual BESHG-meeting. 
Greet, Jeroen, Mattias and Lynn had a poster presentation!

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A new certificate for Bram

3/18/2020

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Bram, our Lab Technician, went back to school for one semester. His aim was to get a certificate in Animal Laboratory Science.
He passed easily his exam and can now start to work with the zebrafish, congratulations!

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Charlotte & Greet in Miami

2/20/2020

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13-16 January 2020

Charlotte and Greet went to the “Advances in liquid biopsies” conference in Miami and had a poster presentation. 

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Zebrafish used in 'the good doctor'

2/20/2020

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In season 3 episode 12 of the popular American TV-show 'The Good Doctor' zebrafish were used! 

The team did research on zebrafish to solve a special patient case. Not everything in the show is realistic, but it gives a nice representation about the work that we are doing in our lab. 
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THE MEMOIRS OF DR. FLAVIA ZITA FRANCIES

11/19/2019

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Our Alumni Dr. Flavia Zita Francies from South Africa talks about her time in Ghent.
​Read her story here.
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FWO Funding

10/24/2019

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10/10/2019
Charlotte received good news: she got her FWO Funding!
Congratulations!!!
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