Alumni

• Helder Opdebeeck, PhD student (2020-2024), 'Application of deep learning to study regulatory DNA in plants'
• Nicolás Manosalva Pérez, PhD student (2020-2024), 'Exploring the cis-regulatory landscape of plants to unravel gene regulatory networks'
• Li Liu, PhD student (2019-2023), 'Evolutionary, regulatory, and functional annotation of long intergenic noncoding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana'
• Thomas Depuydt, PhD student (2019-2023), 'Charting Arabidopsis Gene Functions from Multi-omics and Single-cell data'
• Chrystian Sosa, visiting PhD student Omicas, Columbia (2023)
• Indeewari Dissanayake, postdoc (2020-2023), VIB, 'Wheat integrative network biology (VLAIO-BASF project)'
• Camilla Ferrari, postdoc (2019-2022), VIB, FWO, 'Single-cell gene regulatory network analysis'
• Francesca Silvestri, Software developer PLAZA (2019-2021)
• Francois Bucchini, PhD student ITN SINGEK (2016-2020)
• Cristina Maria Osuna-Cruz, PhD student (2016-2020), 'Understanding benthic diatom biology through comparative genomics and transcriptomic analysis of the model Seminavis robusta'
• Marc Jones, postdoc (2018-2020), VIB, 'Plant regulatory genomics'
• Emmelien Vancaester, PhD student (2015-2020), GOA project, 'Horizontal gene transfer and gene family evolution in photosynthetic unicellular eukaryotes'
• Shubhada Kulkarni, PhD student (2015-2019), FWO project, 'Delineating gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis thaliana'
• Pasquale Luca Curci, postdoc (2017-2019), VIB-SweTree Technologies-UPSC project
• Dries Vaneechoutte, PhD student (2014-2019), IWT funding, 'A collection of tools and resources to explore gene expression, regulation, and alternative splicing'
• Elisabeth Veeckman, PhD student (2014-2019), ILVO, 'Development of genomic resources for perennial ryegrass'
• Andrea Del Cortona, PhD student (2014-2018), BOF funding, 'Exploring genetic diversity in green seaweeds using next-gen sequencing and comparative genomics'
• Jan Van de Velde, PhD student (2012-2016), IWT funding, 'Regulatory annotation of plant genomes using functional chromatin signatures and comparative sequence analysis.'
• Marcelo De Freitas Lima, postdoc (2015-2016), VIB - Petrobras collaborative project
• Sheree Yau, visiting postdoc (2015), CNRS, Laboratoire Arago, France
• Ken Heyndrickx, PhD student (2010-2015), IWT funding, 'A functional and regulatory perspective on Arabidopsis thaliana'
• Livia Vargas, visiting student (2014), Inst. de Bioquimica Medica - UFRJ, Brasil
• Michiel Van Bel, PhD student (2008-2012), ‘Comparative Analysis of Plant Genomes through Data Integration’
• Sara Movahedi, PhD student (2008-2012), IUAP funding, ‘Comparative transcriptomics in plants’
• Sebastian Proost, PhD student (2007-2012), IWT funding, ‘Integration of Genomic Data to Study Genome Evolution in Plants’