Grants
Very excited that our FWO research grant is awarded
12/12/25 02:23
π Very excited to share that our FWO research grant has been awarded!
Over the next 4 years, we will investigate the evolutionary and genetic drivers of rapid sex chromosome turnover in frogs, aiming to understand how and why sex chromosomes change so frequently across lineages.
Grateful to FWO for the support, thanks for the team efforts and all collaborators to make this happen! Excited to get started on the fun journey!


Over the next 4 years, we will investigate the evolutionary and genetic drivers of rapid sex chromosome turnover in frogs, aiming to understand how and why sex chromosomes change so frequently across lineages.
Grateful to FWO for the support, thanks for the team efforts and all collaborators to make this happen! Excited to get started on the fun journey!


Paris received FWO travel grant to visit Wellcome Sanger Institute in Nov.!
10/09/25 04:58
Happy to share Paris has received FWO travel grant to visit the Wellcome Sanger Institute in November, congratulations! π§¬β¨
Ricard and Barbora received FWO travel grants!
10/07/25 04:55
Happy to share Ricard has received FWO travel grant to attend Genome assembly workshop in Italy in Sep.! Congratulations!
Super happy to share Barbora also just received her FWO long-term stay in Puerto Rico for Eleuth cytology and sampling in mid Oct.- Nov.! Congratulations!
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Super happy to share Barbora also just received her FWO long-term stay in Puerto Rico for Eleuth cytology and sampling in mid Oct.- Nov.! Congratulations!
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Congrats on Ezgi to receive another travel grant, this time from EMBO!
27/05/25 01:05
Huge congratulations to Ezgi, for another prestigious EMBO long-term travel grant. She has a luxury choice to make, as she also got the FWO travel grant earlier for the same visit in Barcelona.


Two lab mates have received FWO short-stay and long-stay travel grants to visit other labs
24/04/25 16:03
Congratulations to our two lab mates Barbora Augstenová, and Ezgi Unal for receiving a short-stay and long-stay FWO travel grants respectively!
The travel grant will support Barbora to visit the lab of Yann Guiguen in France! Ezgi will be able to visit Aurora Ruiz-Herrera’s lab in Barcelona for 3.5 months later this year! Yeah, go, girls!

The travel grant will support Barbora to visit the lab of Yann Guiguen in France! Ezgi will be able to visit Aurora Ruiz-Herrera’s lab in Barcelona for 3.5 months later this year! Yeah, go, girls!

VUB-ULB joint PhD seed grant
10/08/24 08:57
Happy to share that:
Prof. PI Jean-François Flot (from ULB) and I (from VUB) have received a one-year ULB-VUB joint PhD seed grant
Prof. PI Jean-François Flot (from ULB) and I (from VUB) have received a one-year ULB-VUB joint PhD seed grant