Sibylle Vonesch

Sibylle Vonesch is a group leader at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and a part-time assistant professor at KU Leuven.

She has a Bachelor in Biology and Biochemistry and received her MSc degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2009 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. For her doctoral research in quantitative and systems genetics she joined the group of Ernst Hafen at ETH Zurich. In 2015 she moved to Heidelberg, Germany for her postdoc with Lars Steinmetz at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Her postdoc research focused on genomics and high-throughput genome editing technology development in the yeast S. cerevisiae.

In May 2021 she established her group (VIB Laboratory for Genome Editing and Systems Genetics) in Leuven. Her group develops CRISPR-based tools to precisely modify the genomes and transcriptomes of microbes at scale, for use in high-throughput screening approaches. The lab uses these technologies to better understand how differences at the level of genotype translate to individual differences in phenotype, using yeast as a model system.