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Joris Messens

Group Leader

VIB Group Leader, since 2012

PhD: John Moores University of Liverpool, UK, 2003

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Research focus

Redox and metabolite signaling are crucial for the proper functioning of the cell. But what are the exact players involved? And by which mechanisms does signaling proceed? The mission of the Messens lab is to find answers to these questions. We aim to identify redox-sensitive proteins and to define the architecture and conformational flexibility of redox-relay signaling complexes. To understand the crosstalk between redox and metabolite signaling, we develop artificial proteins for sensing subcellular metabolic trafficking.

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