Projects
Current questions: the shifting status of the present in history education in Belgium, France, Great-Britain and the Netherlands since 1945. KU Leuven
Semantic graphs for personalized intelligent tutoring systems Ghent University
Distance learning is getting more traction with the rise of online learning platforms such as Coursera or DataCamp, and adopted rapidly due to the COVID19 crisis. The most popular approaches, such as exercises in a fixed learning path, are directed towards the entire student population and fail to take into account individual strengths and weaknesses. Despite its clear benefits for learners, one-to-one tutoring is not scalable because it is ...
The Hidden Biology of Inclusion Bodies KU Leuven
Inclusion bodies in bacteria have been known primarily as the junkyards of bacteria containing unwanted and potentially toxic material. However, the composition of inclusion bodies seems to vary, and they seem to be organized structures. We have preliminary data indicating that inclusion bodies form from proteins that are in the course of being made (as opposed to the common wisdom that they contain already produced proteins), and inclusion ...
The impact of message content and framing in blood donation appeals: An experimental approach to donor recruitment and retention. University of Antwerp
The spatial and temporal structure of visual object space in the human brain KU Leuven
Visual object recognition is a crucial ability in many aspects of human interactions with the surrounding environment. Objects are represented in the lateral and ventral occipitotemporal cortex but it has proven to be difficult to distill an integrative view of the complex functional architecture of these regions. Bao et al. (Nature, 2020) proposed a comprehensive map of object space in inferior temporal cortex of monkeys: the inferior ...
The road to advocacy success: Analyzing the mechanisms shaping issue-specific interactions among interest groups and policymakers. University of Antwerp
The biology of tumor-derived extracellular RNA in liquid biopsies Ghent University
The discovery that cancer cells actively and passively release their content into the blood stream has opened enormous opportunities for characterizing cancer cells without the need for surgery to access tumor tissue. Instead, a simple drop of blood is sufficient to detect and characterize cancer cells inside a patient’s body. The use of circulating DNA molecules has spurred this field, but the study of circulating RNA molecules also seems ...
Deciphering the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in multiple sclerosis (MS) Ghent University
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease in which the central nervous system (CNS) is attacked,
ultimately leading to irreversible physical damage. Three brain barriers protect the CNS against
invading organisms and unwanted substances that are circulating in the peripheral blood. The
blood-brain barrier (BBB) occurs along the brain capillaries and separates blood from brain
parenchyma. The blood-cerebrospinal ...