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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- The few or the many: Evolution, predictors, and drivers of host specificity in African parasitic flatworms belonging to Cichlidogyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae)From16 Jan 2019 → 15 Jan 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- An in depth localisation study of silver nanoparticles in pluripotent stem cells and developing tissues of the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, an invertebrate model system for toxicological studies.From1 Jan 2019 → 30 Jun 2022Funding: FWO research grant KAN
- The Flemish contribution to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC)From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO International research infrastructure (IRI), Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Metal Mixture Toxicity and Defense Mechanism in Zebra fish (Danio rerio) and other Model Species.From1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Planarians activate their regenerative power to circumvent cancer: the meaning of stem cell potency and its micro-environmentFrom1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
- New alternative carcinogenic prediction assay using flatworm stem cell proliferation patterns.From1 Mar 2017 → 30 Jun 2018Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- Profiling stem-cell-specific activities in an in vivo biocompatibility study of mesoporous silica nanoparticlesFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects), BOF - projects
- Studying cancer prevention mechanisms in regenerative animalsFrom1 Jan 2016 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects, BOF - projects
- Planarians activate their regenerative power to circumvent cancer: the meaning of stem cell potency, differentiation and upstream ROS signalingFrom1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2017Funding: FWO fellowships
- The role of redox-directed stem cell processes: an in vivo perspectiveFrom1 Jan 2015 → 31 Dec 2017Funding: FWO research grant KAN
Publications
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- Live Imaging in Planarians: Immobilization and Real-Time Visualization of Reactive Oxygen Species(2023)Series: Methods in Molecular BiologyVolume: 2680
Authors: Vincent JAENEN, Karolien BIJNENS, Martijn HELEVEN, Tom ARTOIS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: 209 - 229 - The role of mitochondria in nanoparticle-specific stem cell toxicity(2023)
Authors: Margo WITTERS, Nelly SAENEN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Annelies BRONCKAERS, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S61 - Polystyrene Microplastics of Varying Sizes and Shapes Induce Distinct Redox and Mitochondrial Stress Responses in a Caco-2 Monolayer(2023)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Inneke HANTORO, Ines TEJEDA, Anitha ETHIRAJAN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
- Polystyrene microplastics of varying sizes and shapes induce distinct redox and mitochondrial stress responses in a Caco-2 monolayer(2023)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Inneke HANTORO, Ines TEJEDA, Anitha ETHIRAJAN, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S207 - 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(2022)
Authors: Mare GERAERTS, Carl Vangestel, Tom ARTOIS, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira Fernandes, Michiel JORISSEN, Auguste Chocha Manda, Celestin Danadu Mizani, Karen SMEETS, Jos Snoeks, Gontran Sonet, et al.
Pages: 3304 - 3322 - A spatiotemporal blueprint of the planarian redox status: from drivers to physiological responses(2022)
Authors: Vincent JAENEN, Karen SMEETS
Number of pages: 359 - Interactive toxicity of copper and cadmium in regenerating and adult planarians(2022)
Authors: Sanah Majid, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Jan-Pieter PLOEM, Annelies WOUTERS, Ronny Blust, Karen SMEETS
- In utero particulate matter exposure in association with newborn mitochondrial ND4L(10550A>G) heteroplasmy and its role in overweight during early childhood(2022)
Authors: Charlotte COSEMANS, Congrong WANG, Rossella ALFANO, Dries MARTENS, Hanne SLEURS, Yinthe DOCKX, Kenneth VANBRABANT, Bram JANSSEN, Charlotte Vanpoucke, Wouter Lefebvre, et al.
- Uptake and intracellular effects of different size-shape polystyrene microplastics in a Caco-2 monolayer(2022)
Authors: Nelly SAENEN, Margo WITTERS, Frank VAN BELLEGHEM, Karen SMEETS
Pages: S140 - Dactylogyridae 2022: a meta-analysis of phylogenetic studies and generic diagnoses of parasitic flatworms using published genetic and morphological data(2022)
Authors: Antoine Pariselle, Karen SMEETS, Tom ARTOIS, Maarten VANHOVE
Pages: 427 - 457
Patents
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