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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- Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in Coupled Human and Natural Systems - interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on the evolution of freshwater species and the socio-ecological consequencesFrom1 May 2024 → TodayFunding: University - Project driven research
- 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
Publications
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- A limited role for SsrA/B in persistent Salmonella Typhimurium infections in pigs
Authors: F. Boyen, Frank Pasmans, F. Van Immerseel, E. Morgan, N. Botteldoorn, Marc Heyndrickx, J. Volf, Herman Favoreel, Jean-Pierre Hernalsteens, Richard Ducatelle, et al.
Pages: 364-373 - A bibliometrical review on pre- and posttsunami assumptions and facts about mangroves and other coastal vegetation as protective buffers.
Authors: Farid Dahdouh Guebas, Loku Pupukkittige Jayatissa
Pages: 28-50 - Foraminiferal distribution and association patterns in the mangrove sediments of Kapar and Matang, West Pensinsular Malaysia.
Authors: B. Satyanarayana, H. Mohd-Lokman, Ibrahim Razarudin, Ibrahim Sulong, Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 32-48 - The yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus (Squamata: Elapidae), off the Southwestern Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Central America
Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt, Carla Patulny, Phillip Clapham
Pages: S297-S303 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & DIVERSITY: REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY FROM A TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Reginald Deschepper, Véronique Joiris, Nico Koedam
Pages: 38-43 - Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities(2015)
Authors: L. Brendonck, Merlijn Jocque, Karen Tuytens, Brian Timms, Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Pages: 741-749 - Herbivory and nutrient limitation protect warming tundra from lowland species’ invasion and diversity loss(2017)
Authors: Anu Eskelinen, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Johan Olofsson
Pages: 245-255 - Cetacean strandings along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua from 2014 to 2021(2021)
Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt, Eric Angel Ramos, Etienne Pouplard, Marc Kochzius, Phillip Clapham
- Systematics of spiny–backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle(2013)
Authors: Karl-Heinz Jungfer, Julian Faivovich, José Padial, Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher, Mariana Lyra, Bianca Berneck, Patricia Iglesias, Philippe Kok, Ross Macculloch, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, et al.
Pages: 351-380 - Amended diagnosis and redescription of Pristimantis marmoratus (Boulenger, 1900) (Amphibia: Craugastoridae), with a description of its advertisement call and notes on its breeding ecology and phylogenetic relationships(2018)
Authors: Philippe Kok, Raheleh Dezfoulian, Bruce Means, Antoine Fouquet, César Barrio-Amoros
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