Božena obtained her PhD in the Laboratory of Pollen at the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2024, where she employed multi-omic approaches to investigate gene expression dynamics during pollen development. She also worked on functional characterisation of conserved cytoplasmic chaperones that play a key role in plant development and stress response in Arabidopsis and Marchantia polymorpha. In September 2024, Božena joined the Functional Phosphoproteomics group at VIB. Her current research focuses on uncovering common mechanisms underlying heat and cold thermotolerance responses in Arabidopsis and Soybean. She aims to identify key sensor elements that trigger these response pathways using both phosphoproteomics and functional studies.

Nathalie obtained her master’s degree in Geology at KU Leuven (Belgium). After 7 years as a Research Scientist at the diamond certification lab HRD Antwerp, she decided to pursue an additional academic career. In 2022, she received her PhD in Biochemistry and Biotechnology for her research on upstream regulation of the SnRK1 energy stress sensor in Arabidopsis thaliana in prof. dr. Filip Rolland’s lab at KU Leuven. In 2023, she joined the Mechanistic Molecular Biochemistry Group (KU Leuven), led by prof. dr. Shehab Ismail Mohamed, as a postdoctoral researcher where she worked on developing and characterizing a novel type of proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) that specifically targets RAS oncoproteins. Today she is a member of prof. dr. Geert De Jaeger's Functional Interactomics Group at VIB PSB (Ugent, Belgium), dedicating her postdoctoral research to unraveling the crosstalk between nitrogen starvation response and SnRK1 signaling in plants.

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Michaël Vandorpe graduated in 2003 at KATHO Roeselare as Bachelor in biotechnology and started to work in the Oxidative Stress Signaling group at PSB. In 2016 he joined the Advanced Live Cell Imaging group.