Research interests

• Focus on bacterial infections, which are an important threat to human health (partly) due to increasing antibiotic resistance
• Investigation of host-bacteria interactions by novel mass spectrometry-based approaches to identify novel targets for therapeutic intervention
  • Use of Listeria monocytogenes as an intracellular bacterial model pathogen
  • Analysis of ubiquitin-like protein modifications of the immune system, in particular ISG15
  • Identification of novel antigenic peptides presented on the surface of infected cells 

More information about the Host-Bacteria Proteomics Lab

• Host-Bacteria Proteomics Lab on the VIB website
• Publications

More information about Prof. Francis Impens

• Prof. Francis Impens is principal investigator in the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
• Prof. Francis Impens is head of the VIB Proteomics Core
• Prof. Francis Impens is member of
  • Belgian Proteomics Association
  • Core for life
  • eRARE-ERA ReCognitiON
  • FWO-SBO NeuroTRAFFIC consortium
  • Infect-ERA BacVirlSG15
  • VIB Grand Challenges