Researcher
Karin Thevissen
- Disciplines:Infectious diseases, Mycology
Affiliations
- Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → Today - Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2005 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
11 - 20 of 27
- Study of the antifungal mode of action of plant defensins using single cell analysisFrom29 Aug 2016 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
- Innovative mOSTE+ designed digital lab-on-a-chip for manipulation and downstream single cell analysisFrom1 Jan 2016 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Polylactic acid (PLA): novel approaches for synthesis and functionalizationFrom9 Feb 2015 → 15 Feb 2019Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Sustainable bio/chemo routes to building blocks for functional polylactic acids materials.From1 Oct 2014 → 30 Sep 2018Funding: IOF - Industrial Research Fund
- SEAKING: Towards discovery and exploitation of novel marine-based bio-actives.From12 Dec 2013 → 11 Dec 2015Funding: BOF - Bilateral scientific cooperation
- Exploring the potential of plant defensins as basis for diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseasesFrom1 Oct 2013 → 20 Dec 2017Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Functional study of OSIP108 as an antiapoptotic stress induced peptide and a biofilm-inhibiting factor.From1 Oct 2013 → 10 Oct 2017Funding: IWT personal funding - strategic basic research grants
- Identification of novel antimicrobial plant peptides and elucidation of their mode of action.From1 Sep 2013 → 31 Aug 2018Funding: Other resources managed by FWO
- Fighting infectious diseases with combination therapy: targeting sociomicrobiological processes to circumvent antimicrobial resistance.From1 Jan 2013 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: SBO (Strategic basic research)
- COATIM: Development of antibiofilm coatings for implants.From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2015Funding: General Activities (Annex IV)
Publications
1 - 10 of 146
- FLUIDOT: A case study on drug tolerance screening and antibody mining, one cell at a time(2023)
Authors: Karen Ven, Jolien Breukers, Iene Rutten, Maya Imbrechts, Sam Noppen, Dominique Schols, Paul De Munter, Hendrik Jan Thibaut, Karen Vanhoorelbeke, Dragana Spasic, et al.
- FLUIDOT: a Modular Microfluidic Platform for Single-Cell Study and Retrieval, with Applications in Drug Tolerance Screening and Antibody Mining(2023)
Authors: Jolien Breukers, Karen Ven, Iene Rutten, Maya Imbrechts, Julie Van Lent, Winnie Kerstens, Sam Noppen, Dominique Schols, Hendrik Jan Thibaut, Karen Vanhoorelbeke, et al.
- Lung epithelial and myeloid innate immunity in influenzaassociated or COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: an observational study(2022)
Authors: Simon Feys, Bram Boeckx, Yves Debaveye, Greet Hermans, Stephanie Humblet-Baron, Katrien Lagrou, Laura Seldeslachts, Karin Thevissen, Christophe Vandenbriele, Lore Vanderbeke, et al.
Pages: 1147 - 1159 - Microfluidic platform for the identification and retrieval of single drug-tolerant yeast cells(2022)
Authors: Jolien Breukers, Karen Ven, Iene Rutten, Dragana Spasic, Karin Thevissen, Bruno Cammue, Jeroen Lammertyn
- Development of mesoporous bioactive glass-containing macroporous titanium for controlled release of antimicrobial drugs(2022)
Authors: Nur Hidayatul Nazirah Kamarudin, Karin Thevissen, Annabel Braem
Pages: 1882 - 1895 - Multiplex analysis to unravel the mode of antifungal activity of the plant defensin HsAFP1 in single yeast cells(2022)
Authors: Caroline Struyfs, Jolien Breukers, Dragana Spasic, Jeroen Lammertyn, Bruno Cammue, Karin Thevissen
- Study of the mode of antifungal activity of currently used antimycotics and plant defensins via single cell analysis(2021)
Authors: Caroline Struyfs, Bruno Cammue, Karin Thevissen, Jeroen Lammertyn
- Clinical practices underlie COVID-19 patient respiratory microbiome composition and its interactions with the host(2021)
Authors: Veronica Llorens-Rico Llorens-Rico, Johan Van Weyenbergh, Sander Jansen, Junbin Qian, Soraya Menezes, Pierre Van Mol, Lore Vanderbeke, Christophe Dooms, Jan Gunst, Greet Hermans, et al.
- The Ketogenic Diet Revisited: Beyond Ketones(2021)
Authors: Jo Sourbron, Karin Thevissen, Lieven Lagae
- Monocyte-driven atypical cytokine storm and aberrant neutrophil activation as key mediators of COVID-19 disease severity.(2021)
Authors: Lore Vanderbeke, Pierre Van Mol, Yannick Van Herck, Frederik De Smet, Stephanie Humblet-Baron, Kim Martinod, Ingrid Arijs, Bram Boeckx, Francesca Bosisio, Michael Casaer, et al.
Pages: 4117 - 4117
Patents
1 - 10 of 10
- Idebenone in the treatment of drug resistant epilepsy (Inventor)
- Compositions against candida infections (Inventor)
- Treatment of epilepsy (Inventor)
- Compositions against candida infections (Inventor)
- Pharmacological targeting of de novo serine/glycine synthesis (Inventor)
- Compositions against candida infections (Inventor)
- Compositions and methods for treating biofilms (Inventor)
- Agents for increased resistance against oxidative stress conditions (Inventor)
- ANTIFUNGAL COMPOUNDS (Inventor)
- USE OF A MEDICAMENT CONSISTING OF ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIFUNGAL E.G. MICONAZOLE, ANTIVIRAL, ANTIINFLAMMATORY, ANALGESIC AND/OR ANTIHYPERTENSIVE IN THE TREATMENT OR IN THE PREVENTION IN PATIENT OF A MICROBIAL INFECTION IN THE FORM OF A BIOFILM (Inventor)