Three VIB group leaders awarded ERC Advanced Grants

We’re proud to announce that three VIB group leaders have secured prestigious ERC Advanced Grants. These highly competitive grants, awarded by the European Research Council, support ground-breaking science by leading researchers across Europe. Together, Martin Guilliams, Klaas Vandepoele, and Bart De Strooper will receive nearly eight million euros to pursue ambitious projects in liver regeneration, plant gene regulation, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Plant functional genomics

Plant genomes contain an extremely large number of genes, both in number of gene families as well as in copy number per family. Consequently, searching for individual genes with conserved biological functions across different plant species is challenging. Apart from exploring known gene function information (e.g., Gene Ontology, literature/text mining), when and where a gene is expressed is an important factor contributing to the concept of gene function in multicellular organisms.

Tools

We have developed different tools to study gene functions and gene regulation. 

 

Transcriptional regulation - Networks