Geert Joris is ONT Expert at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology. He is responsible for the wet lab workflow, protocol benchmarking, optimization and Implementation for Nanopore sequencing. 

Heloise Bastiaanse is a post-doctoral researcher in the Bio-energy and Bio-aromatic group of Prof. Wout Boerjan in the VIB Center of Plant Systems Biology. She works on the project ‘POPMET’, aimed at the large-scale identification of metabolites, metabolic pathways and their genes in the model tree poplar using cutting-edge -omics technologies in 650 genotypes collected along the main rivers of Europe. 

Dr. Mojca Strazisar is Expert Technologist at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology., where she leads the Long Read Sequencing Expertise Unit.  She is involved in consulting, project management, protocol benchmarking, optimization, troubleshooting and novel protocol development for Nanopore sequencing. 

Dr. Peter De Rijk is responsible for the analysis of the data generated by Nanopore sequencing. To this end he develops and upkeeps the analysis pipelines and he is involved in analysis consulting, implementation, benchmarking and troubleshooting. 

Stéphane Plaisance is staff scientist at the VIB Nucleomics Core in Leuven. As NGS analysis specialist, he helps fellow biologists digest their data. Before his work at VIB, he was a post-doctoral researcher at KULeuven studying transcription regulation in cancer molecular biology and cardiovascular molecular medicine. He obtained his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. 

Stephane Rombouts is staff scientist in the Van de Peer Lab of the VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, where he maintains the PlantCARE database of plant promoters and regulatory elements. He is also involved in the annotation of new plant genomes using the Eugene gene prediction platform that he collaborated on. 

Tim De Pooter is ONT Expert at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology.  He is responsible for the wet lab workflow, protocol benchmarking, optimization, troubleshooting, and novel protocol development and Implementation for Nanopore sequencing. 

Wouter De Coster is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology,, focusing on the analysis of sequencing data to identify variants relevant to neurodegenerative diseases, mainly structural variants using long read PromethION sequencing.