Projects
Biology and ecology of bacterial and fungal human biofilms. KU Leuven
Biology and ecology of bacterial and fungal biofilms in humans. University of Antwerp
Biology and ecology of bacterial and fungal biofilms in humans. University of Antwerp
Nature-based coastal defense systems on waves-currents-seagrass interaction: interdisciplinary research on coastal and ecology engineering and marine biology Ghent University
Nature-based solutions that provide sustainable coastal protection using low environmental impact solutions are significant in the adaptation process towards global climate change. One opportunity of sustainable protection is offered by aquatic vegetation(seagrass, salt marshes, and mangroves) in the coastal zone, which is of high ecological value and provides natural coastal protection through attenuating waves, baffling currents and ...
Interlocking synthetic biology, systems biology and artificial intelligence to develop a more efficient metabolic engineering workflow: a highly efficient biotechnological production platform for monoclonal chitooligosaccharides. Ghent University
Today, synthetic biology (SynBio) and systems biology (SysBio) are developing at an unprecedented pace into major drivers of industrial biotechnology. Despite these recent advances, the transformation of wild type organisms into highly efficient microbial cell factories (MCFs) remains a truly daunting task due to the enormous complexity of microbial cells. Typically, to steer the strain engineering process a “Design-Build-Test-Learn” (DBTL) ...
Vitalism: A Counter-History of Biology Ghent University
This project aims to produce a U+2018counter-historyU+2019 of biology in which the focal point is vitalism in its
successive incarnations and definitions. Vitalism has classically been taken to be the most extreme,
supernaturalist position regarding the uniqueness of biological entities, beyond the pale for
mainstream biological science. But careful historical scholarship reveals the existence of different
forms of ...
Structural biology of large and flexible macromolecules in solution: Small angle X-Ray Scatter (Bio-SAXS) and Multi-angle light scatter (MALS) (UABR/11/012) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
SpatialConnect: linking tissue biology to the new era of single-cell spatial transcriptomics Ghent University
The novel single-cell technologies allow to determine the genetic profile of each individual cell per organ. This way, researchers have recently identified novel cell types and activation states that correlate with disease progression or specific developmental stages. However, these techniques are carried out on digested tissue samples and don’t give any information on the precise location of cells. Unfortunately, to fully understand how ...
Bringing Bergson Back into the History and Philosophy of Biology Ghent University
In 1907, French philosopher Henri Bergson published a metaphysical interpretation of biological evolution, Creative Evolution. The book became a bestseller and propelled him to international fame. Historians of biology have mostly considered that Bergson’s ideas left little or no lasting impression on biologists. In addition, in Anglo-American analytic philosophy of biology, Bergson’s ideas are widely ignored. However, the problems Bergson ...