I graduated as a bioscience engineer in 2017 at Ghent University, specialized in cell and gene biotechnology. During my master thesis, I investigated the coding potential of novel small open reading frames and microproteins in Salmonella at the lab of Prof. Petra Van Damme in close collaboration with BioBix, the lab of bio-informatics and computational genomics, both at the UGent. This project gave me the opportunity to combine wet-lab efforts with specialized data-analyses.

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