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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- Microbial characterization of probiotics--advisory report of the Working Group "8651 Probiotics" of the Belgian Superior Health Council (SHC)(2013)
Authors: Geert Huys, Nadine Botteldoorn, Frank Delvigne, Luc De Vuyst, Marc Heyndrickx, Bruno Pot, Jean-Jacques Dubois, Georges Daube
Pages: 1479-1504 - A comparison between the mangroves of Tanbi Wetland Complex (the Gambia) and projects in Oostende and Knokke-Heist (Belgium) with respect to the setup of a sustainable ecotouristic project: analysis of social, cultural and educational conditions(2009)
Authors: Franka FORE, Kathy Belpaeme, Debry Melanie
Pages: 79Number of pages: 1 - Thermal sensitivity of the crab Neosarmatium africanum in tropical and temperate mangroves on the east coast of Africa(2017)
Authors: Marco Fusi, Simone Babbini, Folco Giomi, Sara Fratini, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Daniele Daffonchio, Christopher David McQuaid, Francesca Porri, Stefano Cannicci
Pages: 251-263 - Nicotinamide dependence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli UTI89 and application of nadB as a neutral insertion site(2012)
Authors: Zhaoli Li, Julie Bouckaert, Jean-Pierre Hernalsteens
Pages: 736-745 - Structure and antagonism of the receptor complex mediated by human TSLP in allergy and asthma(2017)
Authors: Kenneth Verstraete, Frank Peelman, Harald Braun, Juan Antonio Mesa Lopez-Colmenar, Dries Van Rompaey, Ann Dansercoer, Isabel Vandenberghe, Kris Pauwels, Jan Tavernier, Bart N Lambrecht, et al.
Pages: 14937 - Reconquering the water(2018)
Authors: Sergio Marques-Souza, Ivan Prates, Antoine Fouquet, Agustín Camacho, Philippe Kok, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Francisco Dal Vechio, Renato Sousa Recoder, Nathalia Mejia, Mauro Teixeira Junior, et al.
Pages: 255-265 - Computed Tomography and light microscopy: combining visualisation techniques in the study of mangrove seedling development(2016)
Authors: Nathalie Tonné, Nico Koedam, Nico Buls, Johan De Mey, Hans Beeckman, Elisabeth Robert
Pages: 28-47 - A new species of the genus Parasesarma De Man 1895 from East African mangroves and evidence for mitochondrial introgression in sesarmid crabs(2017)
Authors: Stefano Cannicci, Christoph D. Schubart, Gianna Innocenti, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Adnan Shahdadi, Sara Fratini
Pages: 89-99 - Conductivity and water level modulate developmental plasticity and explain distribution patterns in a diverse neotropical Odonata assemblage(2023)
Authors: Ángela Aristizábal Botero, Joren Snoeks, Emilio Realpe, Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Pages: 1558-1571 - Modelling mangrove propagule dispersal trajectories using high-resolution estimates of ocean surface winds and currents(2017)
Authors: Tom Van der Stocken, Dimitris Menemenlis
Pages: 472-481