Organisation
Biology
Department
The three main research orientations of the department are: molecular biology, human biology and environment. The project focus on the following areas: 1. Parasitology; 2. Immunology and cancer therapy; 3. Development biology; 4. Environmental genetics; 5. Bio-diversity and plant genetics/engineering; 6. Nature conservation; 7. Marine and terrestrial ecology; 8. Mangroves preservation; 9. Eco-(geno) toxicity.
Current researchers
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- Ángela Aristizábal Botero (Member)
- Barbora Augstenová (Member)
- Elias Beck (Member)
- Stephen Bergacker (Member)
- Laura Bossaer (Member)
- Franky Bossuyt (Member)
- Kristien Brans (Member)
- Natacha Brion (Member)
- Natcha Buncherd (Member)
- Fantin Carpentier (Member)
Projects
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- House of Sustainable TransitionsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in lab, IOF - mandates
- Effects of veterinary antibiotics on plant-soil interaction, plant performance and plant community compositionFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- AGRIWILDING: evaluating the potential of merging biodiversity restoration and sustainable food production in future agri-environmental schemes.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Protecting plant diversity via stoichiometric nutrient networks across Europe’ (DiviN-P)From1 Apr 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Evolutionary genomics of unconventional sex chromosomes in robber frogsFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG) – IUCN SSC MSGFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Threatened coral reef megafauna: a genomic approach to support the conservation of giant clams.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- OZR backup mandate: The interplay of plants, mammalian herbivores, insects and global change in savannaFrom1 Nov 2022 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- BIRDSCAPES - quantifying resource landscapes as a tool for waterbird conservation in FlandersFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Supporting marine small-scale fisheries sustainability as a basis of safeguarding food security and livelihoods in East African regionFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS Short Research Stays (SRS)
Publications
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- Microgeographic differentiation in thermal performance curves between rural and urban populations of an aquatic insect
Authors: Nedim Tüzün, Lin Op de Beeck, Kristien Brans, Lizanne Janssens, Robby Stoks
Pages: 1067-1075 - Interspecific variations in responses of mangrove seedlings to two contrasting salinities.
Authors: Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 700-710. - Human Induced Evolution - Special Issue
Authors: Miguel Baltazar-Soares, Kristien Brans, Christophe Eizaguirre
Pages:  2333-2567 - Phenology of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh. in a disjunctly zoned mangrove stand in Kenya.
Authors: Virginia Wang'ondu, James Gitundu Kairo, Jenesio I. Kinyamario, Jelvas Mwaura, Nico Koedam
Pages: 135-144 - Interspecific variation in foliar nutrients and isotopes of submerged macrophytes in the Cau Hai Lagoon, the typical brackish lagoon in Vietnam(2020)
Authors: Dang Thi Nhu Y, Tien Hoang Nguyen, Khac Lieu Pham, Hidenori Harada, Keisuke Koba, Natacha Brion, Van Hieu Duong, Van Hop Nguyen, Timothy Sierens, Harry Olde Venterink
Pages: 1-13 - Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction(2017)
Authors: Chris S M Turney, Christopher J. Fogwill, Jonathan G. Palmer, Erik Van Sebille, Zoë Thomas, Matt McGlone, Sarah J Richardson, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Pavla Fenwick, Violette Odile Zunz, et al.
Pages: 231-248 - A new species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana(2010)
Authors: Philippe Kok, Ross Macculloch, Amy Lathrop, Bert Willaert
Pages: 18-32 - Degradation products of resin-based materials detected in saliva in vivo(2023)
Authors: Philippe Vervliet, Siemon De Nys, Radu Corneliu Duca, Imke Boonen, , Marc Elskens, Kirsten L. Van Landuyt, Adrian Covaci
Pages: 7189-7198 - A new species of the genus Gonatodes Fitzinger, 1843 (Reptilia: Sphaerodactylidae) from central Guyana, northern South America(2011)
Authors: Philippe Kok
Pages: 1-12 - Trends in fishery genetics(2009)Edition: 1Series: Fish & Fisheries Series
Authors: Marc Kochzius
Pages: 453-493Number of pages: 41