Researcher
Nele Festjens
- Keywords (Ghent University):cancer immunotherapy, Tuberculosis vaccine, medical biotechnology
- Disciplines (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology):Analytical biochemistry, Cell death and senescence, Analysis of next-generation sequence data, General diagnostics
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Cancer therapy, Infectious diseases, Vaccinology, Immunology not elsewhere classified, Cell, tissue and organ engineering
Affiliations
- Callewaert Lab (Research group)
Member
From1 Jan 2017 → Today - Department of Biochemistry and microbiology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → Today - Department of Biomedical molecular biology (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2000 → 30 Jun 2015
Projects
1 - 2 of 2
- Fine tuning and engaging the immune system to defeat Alzheimer’s disease.From1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Study of the synthesis of mycobacterial ManLAM and its function in the interaction with phagocytesFrom1 Oct 2007 → 30 Sep 2014Funding: FWO fellowships, BOF - Other initiatives
Publications
1 - 10 of 18
- T cell engaging immunotherapies, highlighting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy(2021)
Authors: Elien De Bousser, Nico Callewaert, Nele Festjens
- Ring finger protein 213 assembles into a sensor for ISGylated proteins with antimicrobial activity(2021)
Authors: Fabien Henri Thery, Lia Martina, Caroline Asselman, Heidi Repo, Y Zhang, Koen Sedeyn, Georgios Moschonas, C Bredow, QW Teo, J Zhang, et al.
- Exploration of synergistic action of cell wall-degrading enzymes against mycobacterium tuberculosis(2021)
Authors: Loes van Schie, Katlyn Borgers, Gitte Michielsen, Evelyn Plets, Marnik Vuylsteke, Petra Tiels, Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert
- Development of a counterselectable transposon to create markerless knockouts from an 18,432-clone ordered Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin mutant resource(2020)
Authors: Katlyn Borgers, Kristof Vandewalle, Annelies Van Hecke, Gitte Michielsen, Evelyn Plets, Loes van Schie, Sandrine Vanmarcke, Laurent Schindfessel, Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert
- Reference genome and comparative genome analysis for the WHO reference strain for Mycobacterium bovis BCG Danish, the present tuberculosis vaccine(2019)
Authors: Katlyn Borgers, Jheng-Yang Ou, Po-Xing Zheng, Petra Tiels, Annelies Van Hecke, Evelyn Plets, Gitte Michielsen, Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert, Yao-Cheng Lin
- A guide to Mycobacterium mutagenesis(2019)
Authors: Katlyn Borgers, Kristof Vandewalle, Nele Festjens, Nico Callewaert
Pages: 3757 - 3774 - SapM mutation to improve the BCG vaccine : genomic, transcriptomic and preclinical safety characterization(2019)
Authors: Nele Festjens, Kristof Vandewalle, Erica Houthuys, Evelyn Plets, Dieter Vanderschaeghe, Katlyn Borgers, Annelies Van Hecke, Petra Tiels, Nico Callewaert
Pages: 3539 - 3551 - Characterization of genome-wide ordered sequence-tagged Mycobacterium mutant libraries by Cartesian Pooling-Coordinate Sequencing(2015)
Authors: Kristof Vandewalle, Nele Festjens, Evelyn Plets, Marnik Vuylsteke, Yvan Saeys, Nico Callewaert
- GlycoDelete engineering of mammalian cells simplifies N-glycosylation of recombinant proteins(2014)
Authors: Leander Meuris, Francis Santens, Greg Elson, Nele Festjens, Morgane Boone, Anaëlle Dos Santos, Simon Devos, François Rousseau, Evelyn Plets, Erica Houthuys, et al.
Pages: 485 - 489 - Intermediate domain of receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) determines switch between necroptosis and RIPK1 kinase-dependent apoptosis(2012)
Authors: Linde Duprez, Mathieu Bertrand, Tom Vanden Berghe, Yves Dondelinger, Nele Festjens, Peter Vandenabeele
Pages: 14863 - 14872