We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join VIB.AI in Leuven. Help develop and deploy cutting-edge methods for biomedical research, working closely with scientists across VIB. Apply by Aug 31st: https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/135914

In the new VRT Canvas documentary series 'De DNA Revolutie' (The DNA Revolution), @steinaerts.bsky.social joins fellow experts to explore the scientific breakthroughs, opportunities, and ethical questions surrounding genetic technology. https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/dna/1/dna-s1a1/

The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant to develop CellTuned: an AI platform that combines sequence-to-function models with single-cell regulatory networks to uncover the mechanisms driving disease, and translate them into new therapeutic opportunities. 👏 celltuned.ai

Great computational research depends on great IT support. 💻 We're looking for an IT Officer to support researchers, systems, devices, and infrastructure at VIB.AI in Leuven. Interested? Apply here 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/135725

Last week, Dmitry Kobak @hippopedoid.bsky.social gave his introductory lecture at Ghent University, marking the start of his appointment as full professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics and Principal Investigator at VIB.AI. 📸 by Marnix Van Daele

Last call for our open Group Leader position at VIB.AI and Ghent University! Focus: AI in (bio)medicine Don’t miss this opportunity 👉 https://vib.ai/en/group-leader-vacancy

The newly established Kobak lab is hiring! 📣 Open postdoc and PhD positions focused on 👉 Self-supervised learning 👉 Low-dimensional embeddings & data visualization 👉 Interpretability of biological foundation models https://kobaklab.sites.vib.be/en/jobs#/job-list @hippopedoid.bsky.social

A big welcome to the VIB.AI PhD class of 2026! A day of intros, brainstorming, and first connections across labs. Already feels like something exciting is starting here!

Out of the lab for #WetenschapOpStap at the international school in Ghent and Bleydenberg in Wilsele, to show young students how we study disease using data, microscopes, and a bit of hands-on DNA extraction.

VIB.AI and Ghent University are looking for a PI to lead a new research group at the intersection of artificial intelligence and (bio)medical research. Apply by May 31st 👉 https://vib.ai/en/group-leader-vacancy

We launched a new Group Leader vacancy in our Center for AI & Computational Biology - VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social - with a Professorship at Ghent University. Join us with your most creative AI+Biology research plan! Apply before 31st May vib.ai/en/group-lea...

Welcoming @wsaelens.bsky.social as Group Leader at VIB.AI! His team will build causal, experimentally grounded models of the immune system, moving from describing immune cell states to explaining what drives them and predicting how they change under perturbation. Welcome, Wouter! 👏

The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab published CREsted, an end-to-end modeling framework to 🧬 Train sequence-based enhancer models on large sc datasets 🔍 Decode enhancer logic with nucleotide-level interpretability ⚙️ Design synthetic enhancers with cell-type specificity https://tinyurl.com/ypurmrw5

Strong showing from the Gonçalves Lab at COSYNE 2026 👏 Three abstracts accepted, with posters by Hayden Johnson and Karthik Sama, and a talk by Nastya Krouglova. Check it out here👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZMpTeVEmdc&t=2820s

We are super excited to welcome Dmitry Kobak @hippopedoid.bsky.social as a new VIB.AI group leader! The Kobak lab will officially kick off in April at the VIB.AI Ghent hub. More: vib.ai/en/news/dmit...

Full house today for the Methusalem BioMedAI kickoff! The labs of @steinaerts.bsky.social, @joanampereira.bsky.social, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & Maarten De Vos came together to launch this long-term research program on explainable and generative AI for biomedical discovery. Let's go!

The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers. More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090

We’re looking for an experienced 𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿. You’ll establish and run a state-of-the-art wet lab, work closely with computational teams, and help translate AI-generated hypotheses into robust experimental workflows and high-quality training data. https://tinyurl.com/4rf4bm8b

🏹 Job alert: Postdoc Position on Deep Learning for Glioblastoma Sequence-to-Function Models at @vibai.bsky.social 📍 Leuven 🇧🇪 🔗 https://jobs.vib.be/j/130090/postdoc-position-deep-learning-for-glioblastoma-sequence-to-function-models

Postdoc Position: Deep Learning for Glioblastoma Sequence-to-Function Models - VIB

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We are thrilled to share our new pre-print: “System-wide extraction of cis-regulatory rules from sequence-to-function models in human neural development”. S2F-deeplearning models can accurately encode enhancers, yet decoding these models into human-interpretable rules remains a major challenge.

TF-MINDI is out! A new method to learn cis-regulatory codes through rich embeddings of TF binding sites. TF-MINDI decomposes motif neighbourhoods, and works downstream of any sequence-to-function deep learning model. We deeply study the enhancer code in human neural development, check out the thread

Seppe De Winter@seppedewinter.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are thrilled to share our new pre-print: “System-wide extraction of cis-regulatory rules from sequence-to-function models in human neural development”. S2F-deeplearning models can accurately encode enhancers, yet decoding these models into human-interpretable rules remains a major challenge.

This is the happy face of four researchers embarking on a cool scientific collaboration backed by 7-years of structural financing! Congrats @steinaerts.bsky.social, @joanampereira.bsky.social, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social, and Maarten De Vos on your Methusalem grant. https://tinyurl.com/nvcardzy

Kudos to all poster presenters and congratulations to Marios Eftychiou (@jdemeul.bsky.social lab), who got the runner-up poster award, and Wannes Hermans (@joanampereira.bsky.social lab), who won the Best Poster Award 🏆 🙌 #VIBAIscienceday

Great mix of talks from across all @viblifesciences.bsky.social research areas at our first-ever #VIBAIScienceDay. Sharing another mini photo dump while we digest lunch and gear up for more science this afternoon.

And we're off for a full day of VIB.AI science! 🤩 What a treat to bring the entire community together from Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and Leuven, and to do so in this beautiful location. Welcome to the church of AI in Biology. 😇 #VIBAIscienceday @viblifesciences.bsky.social

Super excited about this work led by the one and only @deismic.bsky.social!

Machine Learning in Science@mackelab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our work on training biophysical models with Jaxley is now out in @natmethods.nature.com. Led by @deismic.bsky.social, with @philipp.hertie.ai, @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social & @jakhmack.bsky.social et al. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One week left to apply! 🚨 We are hiring for two exciting roles at the intersection of AI and life sciences: 👉 Head of the Machine Learning Expertise Unit 👉 LLM Engineer Don’t miss your chance to apply by October 31! https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-list

Such a treat to host @gioelelamanno.bsky.social (EPFL) today and be the first to hear more about his lab's latest work, posted just two days ago on bioRxiv. Missed the talk? Here's the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.682018v1

We're very much looking forward to your talk!

Gioele La Manno@gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I am boarding a plane headed to @vibai.bsky.social. Super excited to present the culmination of one of the most exciting projects of recent years, as well as introducing my new vision of an #AI-powered #Brain #Atlas

Join us: Large Language Model Engineer at VIB.AI You'll work closely with top scientists, backed by strong infrastructure and a mission to make a lasting impact on health and society. 📅 Apply before October 31st 🔗 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/123988