An Staes is mass spectrometry proteomics expert at the Proteomics Core at VIB and VIB Center for Medical Biotechnology. Her research focuses on implementing and developing mass spectrometry driven methodologies in proteomics. 

Dr. Daria Fijalkowska is an omics data analyst at VIB Center for Medical Biotechnology in Gent. She obtained her PhD at Ghent University, where she combined proteomics with ribosome profiling and RNA sequencing to study alternative translation initiation. During her postdoc at DKFZ Heidelberg she characterized epigenetic protein complexes in mixed lineage leukemia. Afterwards, she returned to Belgium as a staff scientists tackling bioinformatics data analysis.

Enrico earned his PhD in 2021 with a thesis on computational methods to research protein arginine methylation and other PTMs by mass spectrometry, under the supervision of Dr Tiziana Bonaldi at the European School of Molecular Medicine (Milan, Italy). He is currently working as a Postdoc at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, in the CompOmics group led by Prof Lennart Martens. His research mainly focuses on understanding the effects of PTMs on a protein’s structure and function and how different PTMs can interact with each other.

Dr. Francis Impens is Professor of Protein Chemistry at Ghent University and Group Leader and Head of the Proteomics Core at VIB. His research focuses on functional proteome analysis by mass spectrometry and its application to study host-bacteria interactions.

Dr. Gerben Menschaert is Guest Professor at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering within the BioBix Lab for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics. His research focusses on integration of mass spectrometry and sequencing in a proteogenomics setup. 

Dr. Kris Gevaert is Senior Full Professor of Proteomics at Ghent University, and Science Director a.i. and Group Leader at the VIB Center for Medical Biotechnology.

Lieven Clement is an Associate Professor of Statistical Genomics at Ghent University. His research focuses on developing statistical methods and open-source tools for differential omics data analysis.

Dr. Maarten Dhaenens is Executive PI at ProGenTomics (Lab of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology) and President of the Belgian Proteomics Association

Dr. Marcel Bühler is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Kris Gevaert at VIB-CMB. After obtaining his PhD in Cancer Biology from the University of Zurich, where he used mass spectrometry-based proteomics to study human brain tumors, he joined VIB to establish workflows for ultra-low input and single-cell proteomics.

Dr. Simon Devos is Head of the Proteomics Core at VIB. He's a proteomics specialist with a keen focus on technology development and implementation, both in the MS-driven and non-MS-driven proteomics field.

Dr. Sven Eyckerman is Associate Professor at Ghent University and Expert Scientist at the VIB. His team focuses on tools and technologies for the study of human protein complexes.   

Tine Claeys is a last-year PhD, soon postdoc, in the CompOmics group of Prof. Martens. During her PhD she mainly focused on the reuse of public proteomics data to uncover tissue-specific protein and PTM patterns from a machine learning perspective. In parallel, she is engaging the proteomics community to improve metadata annotation and the AI-oriented reusability of public proteomics data.