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Implementation of breathomics in health and disease. University of Antwerp

Jan van Meerbeeck
Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP)
The air we breathe is essential for a healthy live. Health and disease reflect in the exhaled air and already, diseases were linked to its scent. Breath contains both volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and non-volatile components (exhaled breath condensate (EBC), and exhaled particles (PEx)). These include metabolites, signalling molecules and cell constituents which relate to the individual's metabolism and are induced by (patho)fysiological ...

'Prototyping Residential Subdivisions' Hasselt University

Oswald DEVISCH
ArcK
In Flanders, the 80% of the total housing stock consists of one-family houses, of which 42% is a detached house (SVR, 2010). Characterized by low density, absence of services, car dependency, and by an ageing population, the typical Flemish residential subdivision is facing major challenges: ecological, economic and social. The research starts from the hypothesis that durable transformations in residential subdivisions require processes of ...

Prototyping Heritage Hasselt University

Koenraad VAN CLEEMPOEL
ArcK
Often, spatial heritage is difficult to discuss, visualize and 'curate' in a (city) space, because it deals with the potentially difficult to imagine aspects of repurposing underused historical or deserted buildings and spaces. In that case, digital media could be used to collaboratively (together with designers, heritage experts, citizens, scientists, etc.) prototype and make tangible these rather intangible aspects of spatial heritage, such as ...

Welcome Trail: improving weight control and CO-morbidities in children with obesity via executive function training. University of Antwerp

Stijn Verhulst
Laboratory Experimental Medicine and Pediatrics (LEMP)
Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents are prevalent, have several long lasting medical and psychosocialcomorbidities and post a serious burden on society. Tackling weight problems at an early age in a sustainable way istherefore of utmost importance. Earlier studies of the UGhent and the UZA research groups, showed that in the short terma multidisciplinary obesity treatment (MOT) focusing on behavioral lifestyle approach, has a ...

Yeast Bioreactor 2020: Network biology of stress responses and cell flocculation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in a continious bioreactor in microgravity conditions Ghent University

Bart Devreese
Department of Biochemistry and microbiology

Yeast cultivations will be performed in a specifically designed continuous bioreactor. An integrative-experimental approach will be used to assess the effect of microgravity. Therefore, various omics technologies, i.e. fluxomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and genomics, and specific cell analysis methods will be used to analyse the samples. A network biology model for S. cerevisiae will be set-up to process the omics data. This will lead to ...

Innovative electrochemical multiplex biosensor for detection and quantification of clinically relevant circulating miRNAs (INFORM). University of Antwerp

Karolien De Wael
AXES (Antwerp X-ray Analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation)
Radical prostatectomy is currently the most used curative procedure in the treatment of localised prostate cancer (PCa). However, in 30-50% of interventioned patients Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) increases on post-operatory, meaning that the cancer has spread. The rise in PSA is due to imprecision in preoperative staging, suggesting patients already had distant, undetectable disease. Another issue is that elevated serum PSA is not specific to ...

Photoelectrochemical sensing of an antituberculosis drug - rifampicin. University of Antwerp

Karolien De Wael
AXES (Antwerp X-ray Analysis, Electrochemistry and Speciation)
Rifampicin (RIF) is an essential antibiotic from the rifamycins group, introduced for human use in 1967. The intensive use of antibiotics, including RIF, for human, veterinary and agricultural purposes, results in the continuous release of the drugs and their metabolites into the environment. This leads to the development of antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic resistant bacteria, affecting the therapeutic effect against human and animal ...

Bats, bat flies, and Laboulbeniales fungi: A model for studying hyperparasitism Ghent University

Annemieke Verbeken
Department of Biology

This is a story about hyperparasitism: flies that live as parasites on bats in turn serve as hosts for small ectoparasitic fungi, the Laboulbeniales. Laboulbeniales fungi are microscopic, obscure, and understudied, even neglected by the mycological community. The small community of researchers
studying Laboulbeniales primarily focus on taxonomy (description of species) and ecology (effects of the fungi on their hosts). With this project, ...