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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- Northernmost records of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrating from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua
Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt
Pages: 1015-1021 - Abundance, distribution and behaviour of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) along the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Central America
Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt, Marc Kochzius
Pages: 1041-1055 - Genotoxicity surveillance programme in workers dismantling World War I chemical ammunition(2010)
Authors: Raluca Mateuca (Born Teodorescu), C. Carton, M Roelants, Sam Roesems, D. Lison, Micheline Volders
Pages: 483-495 - Mangrove range limits and species diversity: A macroecological approach from regional to global scales(2019)
Authors: Arimatéa de Carvalho Ximenes, Nico Koedam
- A new species of Chironius Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from the Pantepui region, northeastern South America(2010)
Authors: Philippe Kok
Pages: 31-44 - The toxicogenomic multiverse: convergent recruitment of proteins into animal venoms(2009)
Authors: Bryan Fry, Donald Champagne, Holger Scheib, Joel Tyndall, Glenn King, Timo Nevalainen, Jannette Norman, Richard Lewis, Raymond Norton, Camila Renjifo, et al.
Pages: 483-511 - A functional analysis reveals extremely low redundancy in global mangrove invertebrate fauna(2021)
Authors: Stefano Cannicci, S.Y. Lee, Henrique Bravo Gouveia, Jaime Ricardo Cantera-Kintz, Farid Dahdouh Guebas, Sara Fratini, Marco Fusi, Pedro J Jimenez, Inge Nordhaus, Francesca Porri, et al.
Pages: 1-8 - Disturbance effects on community structure ofFicus tinctoriafig wasps in Xishuangbanna, China: Implications for the fig/fig wasp mutualism(2009)
Authors: Wen-Juan Ma, Da-Rong Yang, Yan-Qiong Peng
Pages: 417-424 - Predator cues magnify effects of the pesticide endosulfan in water bugs in a multi-species test in outdoor containers(2013)
Authors: Hendrik Trekels, Frank Van de Meutter, Robby Stoks
Pages: 116-122 - Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead(2015)
Authors: William H. Goodson III, Leroy Lowe, David O. Carpenter, Michael Gilbertson, Abdul Manaf Ali, Adela Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi, Ahmed Lasfar, Amancio Carnero, Amaya Azqueta, Amedeo Amedei, et al.
Pages: S254-S296