Awards

2024

• Isabel Erreygers - Poster prize - Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease 2024 - Hinxton, United Kingdom
• Ilke Van Tente - Press speak audience award (presentation) - Antwerp
• Isabel Erreygers - Best oral presentation award - Workshop of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group 2023 - Antwerp, Belgium

2023

• Irina Spacova - Best Poster Presentation on Host-Microbe Interactions at the annual Belgian Society for Microbiology Symposium - Brussels, Belgium
• Sarah Lebeer - Laureate of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts (KVAB) – Natural Sciences  - Brussels, Belgium
• Isala - Grand EU citizen science prize for our Isala project (The Isala project, 3 years later) - Vienna (AT)
• Sarah Lebeer - Nominated as one of the 25 citizens of the Province Antwerp to join ’10 years of King Filip’  - Brussels, Belgium
• Thibaut Maeyens - Best Poster Award - The 10th Beneficial Microbes Conference - Amsterdam, Netherlands

2022

• Tom Eilers - Poster presentation award - Microbiome R&D & Business Collaboration Forum: Europe, 7th Probiotics & Prebiotics Congress: Europe and 4th Skin Microbiome & Cosmeceuticals Congress: Europe - The Hague, The Netherlands
• Sarah Lebeer - Antoine Faes award for Biomedical research  - Antwerp, Belgium
• Sarah Lebeer - De pluim van UAntwerpen - Antwerp, Belgium

2021  

• Irina Spacova - International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) Early Career Researcher prize (Glenn Gibson Early Career Researcher Prize)
• Sarah Lebeer - Award of the Vlaamse Wetenschappelijke Stichting ( Flemish Scientific Association  ) - Brussels, Belgium
• Isala - Science communication award KVAB/JA and the EOS public award for our Isala project   - Brussels, Belgium
• Sarah Lebeer - Antwerp innovation award or AHA! award for innovative research in category ‘promising’   - Antwerp, Belgium

2020

• Tom Eilers - Best Poster award - National Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences (Gembloux, Belgium) - Gembloux, Belgium
• Ilke De Boeck - Finalist of the Flemish PhD Cup - Belgium

2019

• Sarah Lebeer - Academische Prijs Raad Dienstverlening 2019 - van de UAntwerpen voor het burgerwetenschapproject 'Ferme Pekes'.

2018

• Irina Spacova, "FWO Travel Grant for a short stay abroad“ to fund a research stay at the laboratory of Prof. Catherine O’Neill, University of Manchester, UK (20.08.2018-15.09.2018)
• Wannes Van Beeck, “EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme Travel Grant” to attend the Microbial Communities: Modelling Meets Experiments course at EMBL Heidelberg (03.12.18-07.12.18).
• Dieter Vandenheuvel, "FY2018 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship" research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to perform research at the Shinshu University in Nagano (Japan), in collaboration with Professor Takeshi Shimosato, on the mechanism behind probiotic glycosyl transferases.
• Sander Wuyts, "Winner Davos DNA-storage Bitcoin Challenge" issued by dr. Nick Goldman from the European Bio-informatics Institute.

2017

• Sarah Lebeer, "LABIP Mid Career Senior Scientist" (Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, 30.08.2017).
• Sander Wuyts, “Excellent Poster Award”, MELiSSA Mini-Symposium & Master Class: Science and Technology for Bioregenerative Life Support (Antwerp, Belgium, 30.03.2017): “Valorisation of food waste by means of artisan vegetable fermentation”
• Wenke Smets, “Excellent Poster Award”, MELiSSA Mini-Symposium & Master Class: Science and Technology for Bioregenerative Life Support (Antwerp, Belgium, 30.03.2017): “Spacecraft air quality control using leaf bacteria”
• Wenke Smets, Best presentation at PRESS>SPEAK science communication, (Antwerp, Belgium, 09.03.2017): “Wat kunnen bladbacteriën voor ons doen?”
• Irina Spacova, "Outstanding Poster Award", National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) 2017 (Leuven, Belgium, 07.02.2017): "Fluorescent probiotic strains for studying microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions"
• Jolien Verhelst, “Outstanding Poster in Environment and Agriculture”, National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) 2017 (Leuven, Belgium, 07.02.2017): “Biomonitoring of Urban Air Quality: the Potential of Hyperspectral Measurements”

2016

• Sarah Lebeer, “Jaarprijs Wetenschapscommunicatie voor het citizen-science project Ferme Pekes. (KVAB, 21.10.2016).
• Eline Oerlemans, “Poster prize”, Exploring Human Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease 2016 (Hinxton, United Kingdom, 09.09.2016): “The vaginal microbiome: can we distinguish bacterial vaginosis and aerobic vaginitis”.
• Wenke Smets, “ISME Student Poster Award” & “MO BIO Student Poster Award”, 16^th International (ISME 2016) (Montreal, Canada, 26.08.2016): “The effect of land use and air pollution on the bacterial phyllosphere of Ivy and London plane tree”.
• Wenke Smets, “Presentation Award (Biotechnology and microbiology)”, 21^st National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) (Antwerp, Belgium, 05.02.2016): “Ecology of the urban phyllosphere”.
• Serena Moretti, “Oral presentation award (Genetics & Human Health session)”, 21^st National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) (Antwerp, Belgium, 05.02.2016): “Re-evaluating urban endotoxins: abundance and inflammatory capacity in polluted air”
• Ana Castanheiro, “Oral presentation award (Ecosystem monitoring and management session)”, 21^st National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) (Antwerp, Belgium, 05.02.2016): “Magnetic analysis and scanning electron microscopy as an integrated approach to assess particulate matter deposition on urban green”

2015

• Serena Moretti, “Rosa Blankaert award”, encouragement award for young researchers from the University of Antwerp (2015). Project: The importance of airborne bacterial endotoxins in an urban environment.
• Marianne van den Broek, "FWO Grant for a short study visit abroad" This grant supports researchers who wish to spend a short period abroad to further specialize in their research field or to undertake knowledge-gathering assignments.
• Camille Allonsius, Belgian Immunological Society (BIS) grant to attend the 4th European Congress of Immunology (ECI) (Vienna, Austria, 6.9.2015-9.9.2015).
• Ilke De Boeck, grant to attend the Exploring Human Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease 2015 conference (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, 29.06.2015 - 01.07.2015).
• Irina Spacova, "Nature Protocols Poster Prize", Exploring Human Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease conference (Hinxton, UK, 29.6.2015-1.7.2015): "Genetically engineered probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG as a prospective oral delivery vector for allergen-specific immunotherapy".
• Marianne van den Broek, “1st Poster Prize”, 20st National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 30.01.2015): “Novel antipathogenic activities of lactobacilli against nasopharyngeal pathogens”.

2014

• Ilke De Boeck, "VBI-studentenprijs 2014" with master thesis " Immunomodulatory role for the pili of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG: possible applications towards asthma and allergies".
• Marianne van den Broek, “1^st Poster Prize”, 19^st National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences (NSABS) (Gembloux, Belgium, 07.02.2014): “Molecular understanding of factors important for probiotic lactobacilli outside the gut”.
• Jelle Hofman “EOS pipet 2014”; audience award (Leuven, Belgium, 11.12.2014)

2013

• Serena Moretti, "Best Poster Award", Knowledge for Growth (Gent, 30.05.2013): "The secret lives of airborne microbes".
• Jelle Hofman Environmental Pollution “Editors' choice” paper for December 2013 (01.12.2013): Spatial distribution assessment of particulate matter in an urban street canyon using biomagnetic leaf monitoring of tree crown deposited particles

2010

• Fatemeh Kardel, Karen Wuyts, Manoochehr Babanezhad, U.W.A. Vitharan, Ali Reza Khavanin zadeh, Tatiana Wuytack, Roeland Samson, "Best Poster Prize", geoENV International Conference (Gent, 13-15.09.2010), "Spatial distribution of plant anatomical and morphological characteristics for biomonitoring of urban habitat quality".
• Shari Van Wittenberghe, "Beste presentatie", Belgian Earth Observation Day (Chaudfontaine, 06.05.2010): "

2008

•  Fatemeh Kardel, Roeland Samson, "Best Poster Prize", necov wintersumposium (Antwerpen, 07-08.02.2008): "Biomonitoring of urban habitat quality via stomatal characteristics of Plantago lanceolata".