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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- Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas(2021)
Authors: Raphael Ocelli Pinheiro, Ludwig Triest, Priscila F. M. Lopes
- Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now(2020)
Authors: Daniel A. Friess, Erik S. Yando, Guilherme M. O. Abuchahla, Janine B. Adams, Stefano Cannicci, Steven W. J. Canty, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Rod M. Connolly, Nicole Cormier, Farid Dahdouh Guebas, et al.
Pages: R153-R154 - Leveraging Micro-CT Scanning to Analyze Parasitic Plant-Host Interactions(2022)
Authors: Luiza Teixeira-Costa
- Positive Catch & Economic Benefits of Periodic Octopus Fishery Closures: Do Effective, Narrowly Targeted Actions ‘Catalyze’ Broader Management?(2015)
Authors: Thomas Oliver, Kirsten oleson, Hajaniaina Ratsimbazafy, Daniel Raberinary, Sophie Benbow, Alasdair Harris
- Low structural variation in the Host-Defense Peptide Repertoire of the Dwarf Clawed Frog Hymenochirus boettgeri (Pipidae)(2014)
Authors: Severine Matthijs, Ye Lumeng, Benoit Stijlemans, Pierre Cornelis, Franky Bossuyt, Kim Roelants
- Barrier to Gene Flow of Grey Mangrove Avicennia marina Populations in the Malay Peninsula as Revealed From Nuclear Microsatellites and Chloroplast Haplotypes(2021)
Authors: Behara Satyanarayana, Olga Delange, Kishore Kumar Sarker, Timothy Sierens
- Competitive abilities of invasive Lagarosiphon major and native Ceratophyllum
demersum in monocultures and mixed cultures in relation to experimental
sediment dredging(2011)
Authors: Josphine Njambuya
Pages: 161-166 - USP13 controls the stability of Aurora B impacting progression through the cell cycle(2020)
Authors: Mara Esposito, H Begum Akman, Philippe Giron, Maria De Los Angeles Ceregido Perez, Rogier Schepers, Luis Carlos Ramos Paez, Esther La Monaca, Jacques De Grève, Olivier Coux, Carl De Trez, et al.
Pages: 6009-6023 - Distinguishing original and non-original stands at the Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve (P.R. China): remote sensing and GIS for conservation and ecological research(2021)
Authors: Juan Sebastian Durango Cordero, Behara Satyanarayana, Jonathan Cheung-Wai Chan, Jan Bogaert, Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 1-22 - Assessing the Influence of Anthropogenic Land-Use Changes on Bird Diversity and Feeding Guilds—A Case Study of Kalametiya Lagoon (Southern Sri Lanka)(2023)
Authors: Tom Bernard, Sunanda Kodikara Kodikara Arachchilage, Jani Sleutel, G.G.N.K. Wijeratne, Jean Hugé, Marappullige Priyantha Kumara, M.A.Y.N. Weerasinghe, D.P.D. Ranakawa, W.A.K.G. Thakshila, Farid Dahdouh Guebas
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