PSB | Plant Systems Biology

PSB Garden

A currently unused field plot close to PSB at the Tech Lane Ghent Science Park will be used for non-GMO field trials. The idea is to give students, postdocs, and personnel of VIB the opportunity to experiment with different plants and crops and to build a community garden this way. The land is currently being prepared for planting and photos will be posted regularly to show the progress, so stay tuned.

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New insights into plant growth: Asymmetric distribution of brassinosteroids after mitotic cell division

Researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology have revealed crucial insights into the role brassinosteroids – essential plant hormones – play in regulating cell division and growth.

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COMPARATIVE NETWORK BIOLOGY

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Van Acker Erin

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Van Acker Erin - Student Master 2 @ PLANT GENOME EDITING

Vandamme Pieter

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Vandamme Pieter - System and Support engineer @ I.T. SUPPORT

Wang Peng

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Wang Peng - Postdoctoral fellow @ PLANT GENOME EDITING

Peng received his Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2013, studying chloroplast and plastid division under Prof. Hongbin Wang. He later worked at the Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology with Dr. Mingguang Lei on the endocytic mechanisms of phosphate transporters. In 2019, he began his PhD with Dr. Jenny Russinova, focusing on endocytic regulation in Arabidopsis, supported by a CSC scholarship. He started his postdoctoral research in Thomas Jacobs’ lab in July 2025, working on genome-wide screening in Physcomitrium patens.