VIB Bioimaging Core Leuven

Whoever assumes that VIB core facilities only provide executive services is greatly mistaken. Today, their focus lies on helping biologists expand their knowledge and use state-of-the-art technologies. This kind of collaboration is the key to achieving scientific breakthroughs.

If you ask Saskia Lippens (VIB Bioimaging Core, Ghent), Sebastian Munck (VIB Bioimaging Core, Leuven), Alexander Botzki (VIB BioInformatics Core) and Gert Van Isterdael (VIB Flow Core, Ghent), the mission of the VIB core facilities is to provide technological support to the scientific community – in the broadest sense possible. We gave them the floor to elaborate on how this works in practice.

Eight years ago, microscopist and training coordinator Chris Guérin (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) set up the VIB Summer School. The founding father’s impending retirement makes it the right time to both put him in the spotlight and celebrate the birthday of his brainchild.