Overweight and obesity among adolescents has increased alarmingly during the past decades. The school environment can have an enormous can have an enormous impact on adolescents' eating behaviours. The purpose of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate two strategies (top-down versus buttom-up) to change the soft drink availability in secondary schools.
2D-INK is targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates through a new methodology, which will exceed the properties of state-of-the-art graphene- and graphene oxide based inks. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the processing of 2D semiconducting materials and will provide the key parameters for fabricating the next generation ...
In 2003, the PaInT lab at UGent came up with an innovative design and concept for an autonomous drinking water production unit powered by solar heat. A first prototype of the concept has already been built, which together with the lab tests have provided the proof-of-principle. Nevertheless, the current prototype still needs to be thoroughly optimized. This StarTT proposal therefore has 3 objectives. (1) Developing an optimized prototype. ...
With a technology for delaminating and deinking multi-layer / printed plastic films developed on a laboratory scale, the main objective of this project is to bridge the gap between this proof-of-concept and industrial investment for further development of the technology.
Freshwater salinization is a common issue that affects life in many aspects, such as infrastructure, food production, environment, biodiversity, and safe drinking water worldwide. Climate change has a wide range of salinization-related impacts, and this situation mainly affects the coastal areas. This problem in coastal locations is typically caused by 5 main sources: rising sea levels, the decline in upstream river discharges, excessive ...
Alterations of the endolysosomal system are an early feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), preceding amyloid deposition, neuronal loss and cognitive impairment. Endolysosomes appear directly implicated in neuronal homeostasis and survival through their participation in local translation. Herein, mRNAs, bound to RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) in ribonucleoprotein complexes, appear to hitchhike on endolysosomes during axonal transport to reach ...
The familial Alzheimer’s disease (FAD)-associated long amyloid β peptides (≥Aβ42) that tend to form the amyloid β plaque in the brain, the hallmark of FAD, are derived by aberrant cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) through the sequential processing of the membrane bound aspartyl proteases γ-secretase. To further unveil the mechanisms behind AD-linked GSECs-triggered pathogenic Aβ profiles release, I will explore how the function ...