Christoph Ziegenhain worked on emerging single-cell sequencing technologies and evolutionary genomics. Currently, he is assistant professor and group leader at Karolinska Institutet and his research focusses on regulation of alternative splicing at single cell resolution. Christoph is also CEO of Xpress Genomics, a sequencing technology company committed to providing highest quality single cell RNA sequencing tools.

Niels Vandamme heads the VIB Single Cell Core to cover complete experimental and computational workflows for single cell multi-omics. During his PhD, he studied heterogeneity and population dynamics in neural crest biology and cancer cell plasticity, using in vitro systems and genetically engineered mouse models at a single cell resolution. During his postdoctoral training, he gained expertise in computational models to analyze high-throughput single-cell data.

Evelien Van Hamme leads the Spatial Catalyst team in VIB. She obtained her PhD in 2009 at the university of Ghent studying viral entry of coronaviruses in monocytes. She has 12 years of experience in advanced bio imaging applications such as live cell imaging, functional imaging and CLEM workflows. In 2018 her interest in spatial technologies was raised when she started evaluating the Akoya CODEX technology. Since 2023 she focuses on spatial technology applications in life science research together with a team of data analysts.

Ria Roelandt has a background in molecular biology and bioinformatics. She is single cell expert at the Single Cell Core at VIB. She is responsible for implementing cutting-edge single-cell technologies, scaling new service workflows, developing and teaching single nuclei isolation methods for single nuclei, ATAC or multiome assays.

Janick tries to help VIB scientists analyze their data by offering bioinformatics training and support. Next to organizing trainings, creating e-learning courses and teaching statistics, R, Python, Linux, HPC, bulk and single cell RNA-Seq analysis, she consults scientists and develops pipelines for omics analyses. Before joining VIB, she worked as a post-doc at KULeuven, doing research on transcriptomics and transcription regulation. She coordinated the Master of Bioinformatics program of KULeuven and taught the course on Biological Databases.