Research
People
Karoline Faust
PIHaris Zafeiropoulos
PostdocCharlotte van de Velde
Research associateAnna Krzynowek
PhD studentCo-supervisors: Ellen Decaestecker
and Dirk Springael
Pallabita Saha
PhD studentCo-supervisor: Kristel Bernaerts
Xingjian Zhou
PhD studentWannes Nauwynck
Co-supervised PhD studentMain supervisor: Nico Boon
Master students/Visitors
- Xi Peng (Visiting PhD student, 2024/2025)
- Andrew Radev (Master student, 2024/2025)
Alumni
- Ermis Ioannis Michail Delopoulos (Master student, 2023/204)
- Sofia Monsalve Duarte (Master student, 2023/204)
- Jasper Snoeks (Master student, 2023/2024)
- Bin Liu (Postdoc, 2021-2024, now at the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Eliseo Molina (Visiting PhD student, Autumn/Winter 2023)
- Tinh Van Nguyen (Co-supervised PhD student, 2019-2023, main supervisor: Dirk Springael)
- Mathias Bonal (Co-supervised PhD student, 2017-2023, main supervisor: Isabelle George)
- Daniel Rios Garza (Postdoc, 2020-2023, now at INRAE)
- Clémence Joseph (PhD student, 2019-2023)
- Julia Casado Gomez-Pallete (Master student, 2023)
- Vladislav Vlasov (Master student, 2022)
- Helena Santiago Lima (Visiting PhD student, Autumn/Winter 2022)
- Manuel Anguita Maeso (Visiting PhD student, Autumn 2022)
- Yu Gao (Visiting PhD student, 2021/2022)
- Sam Röttjers (PhD student, 2017-2021, now at Biome Makers)
- Emma Gheysen (Master student, 2021)
- Tine Logghe (Master student, 2021)
- William Roberts-Sengier (Master student, 2020)
- Xinyi Cao (Visiting PhD student, 2020)
- Jule Freudenthal (Online visiting PhD student, Spring 2020)
- Susana Martinez Arbas (Visiting PhD student, Autumn 2017)
- Leandro Nascimento Lemos (Visiting PhD student, Autumn 2017)
- Lyu Su (Visiting PhD student, Autumn 2017)
- Ina Deutschmann (Visiting PhD student, Spring 2017)
- Hajar Fauzan Ahmad (Visiting PhD student, Spring 2017)
- Nguyen Thi Loan Anh (Visiting Postdoc, 2017)
- Eduardo PĂ©rez Valera (Visiting PhD student, 2014/2015)
- Aria Hahn (Visiting PhD student, 2014/2015)
Publications
Tool Development
miaSim
R package in the miaverse for the simulation of microbial community dynamicsCellScanner
Flow cytometry data analysisTeaching
- Contribution to "Hot Topics in Microbiology" (B-KUL-E05N6A)
- Contribution to "Advanced Microbiology" (B-KUL-E05N5A)
- EMBO course: Inference and analysis of microbial networks from sequencing data
- MOOC: How to analyse a microbiome?
- Tutorial on microbial association network construction and analysis
- Contribution to "Omics Techniques and Data Analysis" (B-KUL-I0V62a)
- Contribution to "Modeling dynamical systems in biology" (BINF-F404)
- Lecture: Structure and dynamics of microbial communities
Events
Upcoming events
Past events
Below are pictures from our lab events and our participation at ISME18.- Summer School on Microbial Community Design and Control (11-13th Sep 2023)
- Lab day (25th May 2022)
- School on Microbial Time Series Analysis (2nd-4th Nov 2021)
- Summer School on Microbial Community Modeling (16-18 Sep 2019)
- Dynamics of Biological Systems (2-4 May 2018)
Session on Microbial Systems Biology - Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (13-14 Feb 2018)
Session on Microbial Ecology: Community composition and dynamics - Summer School on Ecological Network Inference And Analysis (11-13 Sep 2017)
Guest speakers
- Clémence Frioux "Exploration of microbial ecosystems: from compositional patterns to metabolic models" (4th July 2023, defence Clémence)
- Adama Ouattara "Democratizing Biotech 4.0 using Constellab™: From global data federation to bioprocess optimization using digital twins" (4th July 2023, defence Clémence)
- Almut Heinken "The AGORA2 resource and its applications for modeling the human microbiome" (21st June 2023)
- Research seminar by Aurore Woller (4th May 2023)
- Susann Müller "Stabilising microbial communities by looped mass transfer" (27th February 2023, defence Charlotte)
- Gail Rosen "Discovery of Microbial Community Structure and Interactions through Machine Learning" (29th June 2022)
- Christian von Mering "STRING and MicrobeAtlas - new developments for microbiologists" (26th October 2021, defence Sam)
- Modeling microbial ecology series - Hilje Doekes (17th August 2021)
- Modeling microbial ecology series - Veronika Dubinkina (6th April 2021)
- Research seminar by Christoph Ratzke (15th December 2020)
- Maxime Fajgenblat "Modelling adaptational regime shifts in populations using spatially and genetically explicit Lotka-Volterra models" (6th October 2020)
- Bin Ma "Exploring Soil Microbiomes from a Network Perspective" (17th June 2019)
- Hein Sprong "Eco-epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis" (29th June 2018)
Vacancies
Spontaneous applications
If you are interested to join the lab as a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher or as a visiting student, please send your CV and motivation letter to: karoline.faust(at)kuleuven.be
Available positions
Currently no position available.
Contact
Address
Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation (Rega Institute) KU Leuven Rega institute, 7th floor (Room 7.B142) Bus: 1028 Campus Gasthuisberg Herestraat 49 3000 Leuven Belgium |
karoline.faust(at)kuleuven.be
Phone
+32-16-322698