As head of the VIB Flow Core,  Gert provides flow cytometry expertise to the users of the core facility by giving technical help to the scientists, maintaining the machines, implicating high quality SOPs as well as providing both experimental setup and data analysis consultations. The Flow Core develops novel automated analysis techniques for multi-parameter flow cytometry data to remove user bias in close collaboration with the on-site Bioinformatics team headed by Prof. Yvan Saeys. 

Sofie is Postdoc at Ghent University working on optimization of the analysis of flow cytometry data by developing suitable machine learning algorithms. She's the creator of the FlowSOM algorithm. 

Yvan Saeys is associate professor at Ghent University and principal investigator at VIB, where he is heading an interdisciplinary research team of 25 people.

The Saeys lab studies the design and application of novel data mining and machine learning techniques, motivated by specific questions in biology and medicine. The group develops new computational approaches to unravel the regulatory landscape of immune cell differentiation and functioning.