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)
Member
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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- Differential effect of silver nanoparticles on the microbiome of adult and developing planaria(2021)
Authors: Karolien BIJNENS, Sofie THIJS, Nathalie LEYNEN, Vincent STEVENS, Breanne Mcammond, Jonathan Van Hamme, Jaco VANGRONSVELD, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS
- Physico-chemical characterisation of the fraction of silver (nano)particles in pristine food additive E174 and in E174-containing confectionery(2020)
Authors: Sandra DE VOS, Nadia Waegeneers, Eveline Verleysen, Karen SMEETS, Jan Mast
Pages: 1831 - 1846 - Breastfeeding predicts blood mitochondrial DNA content in adolescents(2020)
Authors: Charlotte COSEMANS, Tim NAWROT, Bram JANSSEN, Annette VRIENS, Karen SMEETS, Willy Baeyens, Liesbeth BRUCKERS, Elly Den Hond, Ilse Loots, Vera Nelen, et al.
- DNA diet profiles with high‐resolution animal tracking data reveal levels of prey selection relative to habitat choice in a crepuscular insectivorous bird(2020)
Authors: Ruben EVENS, Greg Conway, Kirsty Franklin, Ian Henderson, Jennifer Stockdale, Natalie BEENAERTS, Karen SMEETS, Thomas NEYENS, Eddy ULENAERS, Tom ARTOIS
Pages: 13044 - 13056 - The first mitochondrial genomes of endosymbiotic rhabdocoels illustrate evolutionary relaxation of atp8 and genome plasticity in flatworms(2020)
Authors: Marlies MONNENS, Sofie THIJS, Andrew G. Briscoe, Miriam Clark, Emily Joy Frost, D. Tim J. Littlewood, Mary Sewell, Karen SMEETS, Tom ARTOIS, Maarten VANHOVE
Pages: 454 - 469 - Regenerative responses following DNA damage - β-catenin mediates head regrowth in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea(2020)
Authors: Annelies WOUTERS, Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Sabine LANGIE, Tom ARTOIS, Aziz Aboobaker, Karen SMEETS
- In vivo Toxicity Assessment of Silver Nanoparticles in Homeostatic versus Regenerating Planarians(2019)
Authors: Nathalie LEYNEN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Annelies WOUTERS, Hannelore BOVE, Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Elsy THIJSSEN, Sabine LANGIE, Robert CARLEER, Marcel AMELOOT, Tom ARTOIS, et al.
Pages: 476 - 491 - Schmidtea mediterranea's coping strategy against carcinogens: joint forces of stem cell’s intra- and extracellular cues(2019)
Authors: Annelies WOUTERS, Karen SMEETS
- The driving forces of stem cell plasticity under chemical stress: A central role for TSGs and the stem cell niche(2018)
Authors: Annelies WOUTERS, Andromeda VAN ROTEN, A. Barakat, T. Tran, An STEVENS, Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Nathalie LEYNEN, Luca GENTILE, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S202 - S202 - Schmidtea mediterranea as an alternative model to predict carcinogenicity via its stem cell responses(2018)
Authors: Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Annelies WOUTERS, Maxime WILLEMS, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S81 - S81
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)