Researcher
Karen SMEETS
- Keywords:Biology
- Disciplines:Animal cell and molecular biology, Animal developmental and reproductive biology, Aquatic biology, Invertebrate biology, Ecotoxicology, Stem cell biology, Toxicology and toxinology not elsewhere classified
Affiliations
- Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology (Research group)
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From1 Feb 2009 → Today - Biology - Geology (Department)
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From4 Feb 2004 → Today - Faculty of Sciences (Faculty)
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From4 Feb 2004 → Today - Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences (Research institute)
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From1 Oct 2003 → Today - Environmental Biology (Research group)
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From14 May 2004 → 31 Jan 2009 - Chemistry-Biology-Geology (Division)
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From4 Feb 2004 → 30 Sep 2009
Projects
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- IOF mandate Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences 2024-2028From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Parasite Specialist Group (IUCN SSC PSG)From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Feasibility study for assessing microplastics via human biomonitoringFrom11 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Department of Environment
- Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biologyFrom1 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions (MSCA)
- Neural control of gut regeneration: a (r)evolutionary question?From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- NANOSTEM: An in-depth mechanistic study on how NANOparticles interfere with cell cycle dynamics and developmental processes in STEM cellsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Tiered testing of the cytotoxicity effects of micro- and nanoplastics using intestinal in vitro modelsFrom1 Jun 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- MULTISCALE - The UHasselt MultiScale Optical Imaging Core: Infrastructure for nano- to centimeter length scale microscopy and analysis of 'big' 4D datasetsFrom1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: Industrial enterprises, FWO Large scale research infrastructure, Foreign public sponsor, Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- MULTISCALE - Infrastructure for nano- to centimeter length scale microscopy and big data analysis of optical imaging dataFrom1 Apr 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Neuronal control of gut regeneration: a (r)evolutionary question?From1 Nov 2021 → 30 Oct 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
Publications
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- Live Imaging in Planarians: Immobilization and Real-Time Visualization of Reactive Oxygen Species(2023)Series: Methods in Molecular BiologyVolume: 2680
Authors: Vincent JAENEN, Karolien BIJNENS, Martijn HELEVEN, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: 209 - 229 - The role of mitochondria in nanoparticle-specific stem cell toxicity(2023)
Authors: Margo WITTERS, Nelly SAENEN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Annelies BRONCKAERS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S61 - Polystyrene Microplastics of Varying Sizes and Shapes Induce Distinct Redox and Mitochondrial Stress Responses in a Caco-2 Monolayer(2023)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Inneke HANTORO, Ines TEJEDA, Anitha ETHIRAJAN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
- Polystyrene microplastics of varying sizes and shapes induce distinct redox and mitochondrial stress responses in a Caco-2 monolayer(2023)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Inneke HANTORO, Ines TEJEDA, Anitha ETHIRAJAN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S207 - Population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources(2022)
Authors: Mare GERAERTS, Carl Vangestel, Tom ARTOIS, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira Fernandes, Michiel JORISSEN, Auguste Chocha Manda, Celestin Danadu Mizani, Karen SMEETS, Jos Snoeks, Gontran Sonet, et al.
Pages: 3304 - 3322 - A spatiotemporal blueprint of the planarian redox status: from drivers to physiological responses(2022)
Authors: Vincent JAENEN, Karen SMEETS
Number of pages: 359 - Interactive toxicity of copper and cadmium in regenerating and adult planarians(2022)
Authors: Sanah Majid, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Annelies WOUTERS, Ronny Blust, Karen SMEETS
- In utero particulate matter exposure in association with newborn mitochondrial ND4L(10550A>G) heteroplasmy and its role in overweight during early childhood(2022)
Authors: Charlotte COSEMANS, Congrong WANG, Rossella ALFANO, Dries MARTENS, Hanne SLEURS, Yinthe DOCKX, Kenneth VANBRABANT, Bram JANSSEN, Charlotte Vanpoucke, Wouter Lefebvre, et al.
- Uptake and intracellular effects of different size-shape polystyrene microplastics in a Caco-2 monolayer(2022)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S140 - Dactylogyridae 2022: a meta-analysis of phylogenetic studies and generic diagnoses of parasitic flatworms using published genetic and morphological data(2022)
Authors: Antoine Pariselle, Karen SMEETS, Tom ARTOIS, Maarten VANHOVE
Pages: 427 - 457
Patents
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Linked dataset
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- Dataset to study the population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources (Creator)
- Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species-rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes (project) (Creator)
- Explosive networking: the role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species-rich host-parasite assembly (Creator)