Researcher
Karen SMEETS
- Keywords:Biology
- Disciplines:Animal cell and molecular biology, Animal developmental and reproductive biology, Aquatic biology, Invertebrate biology, Ecotoxicology, Stem cell biology, Toxicology and toxinology not elsewhere classified
Affiliations
- Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology (Research group)
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From1 Feb 2009 → Today - Biology - Geology (Department)
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From4 Feb 2004 → Today - Faculty of Sciences (Faculty)
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From4 Feb 2004 → Today - Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences (Research institute)
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From1 Oct 2003 → Today - Environmental Biology (Research group)
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From14 May 2004 → 31 Jan 2009 - Chemistry-Biology-Geology (Division)
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From4 Feb 2004 → 30 Sep 2009
Projects
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- IOF mandate Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences 2024-2028From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - mandates
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Parasite Specialist Group (IUCN SSC PSG)From1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Feasibility study for assessing microplastics via human biomonitoringFrom11 Oct 2023 → TodayFunding: Department of Environment
- Learning from animals how to regenerate: multidisciplinary training programme in regenerative biologyFrom1 Mar 2023 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions (MSCA)
- Neural control of gut regeneration: a (r)evolutionary question?From1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- NANOSTEM: An in-depth mechanistic study on how NANOparticles interfere with cell cycle dynamics and developmental processes in STEM cellsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Tiered testing of the cytotoxicity effects of micro- and nanoplastics using intestinal in vitro modelsFrom1 Jun 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- MULTISCALE - The UHasselt MultiScale Optical Imaging Core: Infrastructure for nano- to centimeter length scale microscopy and analysis of 'big' 4D datasetsFrom1 May 2022 → TodayFunding: Industrial enterprises, FWO Large scale research infrastructure, Foreign public sponsor, Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- MULTISCALE - Infrastructure for nano- to centimeter length scale microscopy and big data analysis of optical imaging dataFrom1 Apr 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Neuronal control of gut regeneration: a (r)evolutionary question?From1 Nov 2021 → 30 Oct 2022Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
Publications
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- Glyphosate and AMPA exposure in relation to markers of biological aging in an adult population-based study(2022)
Authors: Charlotte COSEMANS, Nicolas Van Larebeke, Bram JANSSEN, Dries MARTENS, Willy Baeyens, Liesbeth BRUCKERS, Elly Den Hond, Dries Coertjens, Vera Nelen, Greet Schoeters, et al.
- Nanoparticle-specific effects on developmental processes and the role of mitochondria: an in vitro study(2022)
Authors: Margo WITTERS, Nelly SAENEN, E. Browko, Annelies BRONCKAERS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S122 - In Utero Exposure to Air Pollutants and Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy in Neonates(2022)
Authors: Charlotte COSEMANS, Congrong WANG, Dries MARTENS, Bram JANSSEN, Charlotte Vanpoucke, Wouter Lefebvre, Karen SMEETS, Tim NAWROT, Michelle PLUSQUIN
Pages: 350 - Does size matter? A study on the in vivo effects of inorganic and organic nanoparticles in Schmidtea mediterranea.(2021)
Authors: Nathalie LEYNEN, Karen SMEETS
Number of pages: 193 - More than a gut feeling: microbiota, redox molecules and their impact on planarian responses(2021)
Authors: Karolien BIJNENS, Karen SMEETS
Number of pages: 293 - Taxonomy and phylogeny of Koinocystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia), with the description of three new genera and twelve new species(2021)
Authors: Yander DIEZ GARCIA, Marlies MONNENS, Rosa Isabel Aguirre, Rana Yurduseven, Philippe JOUK, Niels VAN STEENKISTE, Brian S Leander, Ernest SCHOCKAERT, Patrick REYGEL, Karen SMEETS, et al.
Pages: 451 - 500 - Is ‘everything everywhere’? Unprecedented cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan flatworm Gyratrix hermaphroditus(2021)
Authors: Bart TESSENS, Marlies MONNENS, Thierry Backeljau, Kurt Jordaens, Niels VAN STEENKISTE, Floris C. Breman, Karen SMEETS, Tom ARTOIS
Pages: 837 - 851 - A Spatiotemporal Characterisation of Redox Molecules in Planarians, with a Focus on the Role of Glutathione during Regeneration(2021)
Authors: Karolien BIJNENS, Vincent JAENEN, Annelies WOUTERS, Nathalie LEYNEN, Nicky PIROTTE, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS
- Reactive oxygen species rescue regeneration after silencing the MAPK-ERK signaling pathway in Schmidtea mediterranea(2021)
Authors: Vincent JAENEN, S Fraguas, Karolien BIJNENS, Martijn HELEVEN, Tom ARTOIS, R Romero, Karen SMEETS, F Cebrià
- The cichlid–Cichlidogyrus network: a blueprint for a model system of parasite evolution(2021)
Authors: Armando CRUZ LAUFER, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS, Antoine Pariselle, Maarten VANHOVE
Pages: 3847 - 3863
Patents
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Linked dataset
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- Dataset to study the population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758)) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources (Creator)
- Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species-rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes (project) (Creator)
- Explosive networking: the role of adaptive host radiations and ecological opportunity in a species-rich host-parasite assembly (Creator)