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Francis Impens
- Full Professor UGent since 2022
- Associate Professor UGent since 2018
- VIB Group Leader since 2016
- Postdoc: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 2012-2015
- Postdoc: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2010-2011
- PhD: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2010
Research areas
Bacterial infection – proteomics – vaccines – medical biotechnology
Research focus
With increasing antibiotic resistance, bacterial infections remain an important threat to human health. To identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention our group investigates host-bacteria interactions by innovative mass spectrometry (MS)-based approaches. Using Listeria monocytogenes as an intracellular bacterial model pathogen, we focus on the analysis of ubiquitin-like protein modifications of the immune system and the MS-based identification of novel bacterial antigens.