@RodriguesSav

Study plant-pathogen interactions by day🌱 Building a sneaker collection at all other times👟 I also engage in SciComm when time permits All views are my own😊

 Leuven
Joined April 2019
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Laurens Pauwels@LaurensPauwelsJul 6
📢 The website for the 46th Annual Crown Gall Conference is now live! 🗓️ October 3–4, 2026, at Williams College, MA ⏳ Registration deadline: August 10 Looking forward to another great meeting of the Agrobacterium community! crowngallconference.org/ #Crowngall #Agrobacterium
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Laurens Pauwels@LaurensPauwelsFeb 18
Golden Gate 🧬 builds complex T-DNAs for plant transformation & gene editing — but what if we used it to make binary vector backbones? Glad to contribute to Jonas De Saeger's (Jacobs lab) preprint on BackBone Builder 🔧🌱 tinyurl.com/4ycydjhe
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.15.705982v1

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🚨 Vacancy PhD student 🚨 Passionate about #CRISPR, plant biotechnology, and breeding? Join our project on meiotic recombination in maize 🌽 A collaboration of our lab @FbwUGent, @ILVOvlaanderen & @KU_Leuven 🔗ugent.be/en/work/scientific/… Apply before August 10!
Maize seedlings expressing RUBY

ALT Maize seedlings expressing RUBY

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🌱 The full Agrobacterium 2025 programme is now live! 📅 Early bird registration ends June 13 — don’t miss out! 🚶‍♀️ Join the Tall Tales of Leuven city walk (Sept 14) — included in the fee, but registration required. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4rdw84fa #Agrobacterium2025 #PlantScience
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Big news for #Agrobacterium2025 in Leuven, Belgium. Thanks to our amazing #sponsors, we’re able to offer travel awards for grad students + poster prizes! 🏆✈️ 📢 New abstract deadline: May 10 👉 kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202… #SciComm #PhDLife #Microbiology #PlantScience
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🚨 #Agrobacterium2025: Abstract deadline this Monday! 🚨 Our final invited speaker: Christoph Dehio @biozentrum @UniBasel_en — diving into β-glucan synthesis 🔬🧬 👉 Check out this recent paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… 📢 Submit your abstract now: biw.kuleuven.be/biosyst/crop…
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Excited to announce Patrick Shih @UCBerkeley as an invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025! He’ll present on ‘Utilizing synthetic biology for engineering Agrobacterium.’ Recent work @LabShih: nature.com/articles/s41587-0…. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…"
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Happy to announce that our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Alexandra Weisberg from @osubpp Seminal paper by @weisbergaj science.org/doi/full/10.1126… 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…
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Our next invited speaker for #Agrobacterium2025 is Erh-Min Lai from @IPMBSinica ! Breakthrough report published this week by @AdamWu9527 @ChihHorngKuo and @erhminlai doi.org/10.1111/pbi.70083 15-16/9 in Leuven, Belgium. Abstract deadline: May 1! kuleuven.be/agrobacterium202…
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Save the date! #AGROBACTERIUM2025 Joint event of the 45st American Crown Gall meeting and the 5th European #Agrobacterium conference SEPTEMBER 15-16 2025, LEUVEN, BELGIUM More info soon!
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The first gene edited crop trials have been harvested. The new varieties have qualities which could improve yield and green credentials. Read more here: fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-select…

First gene-edited wheat harvested from trials - Farmers Weekly

Gene-edited wheat and barley varieties are expected to be grown on commercial farms in England as early as 2026. This comes after trial plots of one wheat

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Dirk Inze@InzeDirk12 Apr 2023
Great news! Japan approved the use of a 4th gene edited food crop. The new waxy maize variety provides more smoothness to food products. Gene editing of crops is now mainstream, except in Europe #EUSAGE bit.ly/3KUKd32
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Chinese scientists use gene editing to develop soybean lines with enhanced ‘nodulation ability’, allowing plants to fix more nitrogen from the air, boosting crop yield and protein. isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupda…
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The 6th European #Maize Meeting will be 18-20/9 2024 in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. uantwerpen.be/en/conferences… Don't forget to visit.antwerpen.be
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GeneSprout Initiative will be represented by ⁦@GermanVighi⁩ at the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival high-level event in Brussels! Are you a bioeconomy stakeholder, a policymaker, or passionate about #EUBioeconomy? 🌍 See you there on 13-14 Mar 🔗 europa.eu/!wVXWYG
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Germán Vighi@GermanVighi13 Mar 2024
Starting now! #EUbioeocnomy #changemakers
GeneSprout Initiative 🍀@GeneSprout11 Mar 2024
GeneSprout Initiative will be represented by ⁦@GermanVighi⁩ at the Bioeconomy Changemakers Festival high-level event in Brussels! Are you a bioeconomy stakeholder, a policymaker, or passionate about #EUBioeconomy? 🌍 See you there on 13-14 Mar 🔗 europa.eu/!wVXWYG
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My lab is recruiting a postdoc on an FWO/FNRS funded project. Interested in researching how secondary metabolites from beneficial bacteria trigger immune responses in plants? Apply here: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit… @lab_php @CropBioLeuven @LeuvenPlantInst @biosystkuleuven
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Can you produce #pears underneath solar panels? Yes, you can, with #agrivoltaics. The #PV panels can create additional benefits for the crop, while producing sustainable energy. @KU_Leuven @H2020Hyperfarm @biosystkuleuven @CropBioLeuven @VLAIO_be stories.kuleuven.be/nl/verha… – at Bierbeek, België
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Australia approves GM Banana. Fusarium wilt or TR4 is a devastating disease of bananas. → Potential to impact an estimated 80 per cent of global banana production. The GM banana offers a potential safety net against the devastating disease. 🧵1/3
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Savio Rodrigues retweeted
WePlanet
@weplanetint7 Feb 2024
The outcome of todays vote on New Genomic Techniques (#NGTs) in the @Europarl_EN will be felt beyond the borders of the EU. We call on MEPs to embrace science over fearmongering and vote in support of NGTs. #GiveGenesAChance 🌱🧬🔬
WePlanet Africa
@WePlanetAfrica19 Jan 2024
Europe, the world is watching. Let science, not fear, inform your decision. 🧬Support New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in Europe 🌍🔬 @jhuitema @clergeau @jessicapolfjard @pcanfin @weplanetint @WePlanetAfrica
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