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Cell surface display of quorum quenching enzymes in Pseudomonas stutzeri. KU Leuven

Jos Vanderleyden
Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
Autotransporters (ATs) represent a large family of cell surface and extracellularly secreted proteins in Gram-negative bacteria. They are expressed as a single polypeptide consisting of a Sec-specific cleavableN-terminal signal peptide, a surface exposed or extracellularly secretedpassenger domain and a C-terminal outer membrane-anchored translocation unit, made up of a C-terminal ß-barrel and an upstream a-helical linker.ATs are often regarded ...

FWO-SB-Beurs: Innovating Yeast Display for the selection of nanobodies for difficult targets Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Jan Steyaert
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Department of Bio-engineering Sciences
For decades, antibodies have played a central role as research tools and more recently also as therapeutic agents (biologicals). Their impact on research and medicine is still growing. It was shown that Nanobodies (Nbs), small (15 kDa) and stable single-domain antibody fragments, can bind the most difficult targets including membrane proteins, transient multiprotein assemblies, intrinsically disordered proteins. In the Steyaert lab, a pioneer ...

Large area tactile and kinaesthetic display system for virtual reality palpation. KU Leuven

Dominiek Reynaerts
Manufacturing Processes and Systems

In a normal robotic surgical procedure only vision and position feedback is available. Without an equivalent to the sense of touch the surgeon cannot rely anymore on palpation to differentiate between healthy and sick tissue, or to find his/her way into complex often fragile body areas. The proposed research is dedicated to restore the sense of touch, in all its facets, to the surgeon in a robotic surgical procedure where the robot touches ...

Yeast cell surface display of PET-hydrolyzing enzymes to degrade PET and pretreat PET-containing organic side streams prior to black soldier fly larvae rearing (PETyFLY) KU Leuven

Patrick Van Dijck
Molecular Biotechnology of Plants and Micro-organisms, Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (CSCE), Food and Microbial Technology (CLMT), Thomas More Kempen vzw

applied as packaging material. Given their frequent use, combined with the lack and/or failure of recycling programs, these plastics and their fragmented variants, i.e., micro, and meso plastics, are ubiquitously present in organic side streams. For example, PET plastics have been found in residual valuable biomass derived from the food industry, supermarkets, and restaurants. Should this biomass be used as feed for rearing insects, these PET ...

Sabbatical Arnaud Hendrickx: Significant Proportions / Display Strategies KU Leuven

Arnaud Hendrickx
Architecture and Design

The aim is to complete a number of projects and to set up new initiatives. Significant Proportions, reflections, in the form of short essays, about "sense-making and sensing as a form of poetic measuring in architecture" based on installations from my spatial artistic practice. Display Strategies, reflections, in the form of papers, about animism, replicas & spatial reconfiguration as strategies for exhibiting art. Residence / T.O.P. ...

The Voice of the People. Displays of Public Opinion in the News and Their Influence on Audiences. University of Antwerp

Stefaan Walgrave
Media, Movements and Politics (M2P)
One of the main functions of news media in democracies is representing public opinion. There are several ways in which journalists can do so: by covering (1) polls (2) vox pops (3) inferences about public opinion (4) protest or (5) social media references. Many studies focus on one of these public opinion displays. However, surprisingly, no research exists studying how these different displays are combined in the news. Gaining an understanding ...

Compact LCOS projection displays for high-quality 3D images with high spatial and angular resolution Ghent University

Herbert De Smet
Department of Electronics and information systems

The introduction of threedimensional displays is probably the next important step towards more realistic imaging systems. This project envisages the realization of a display system that can generate a four dimensional light field approximating the real light distribution that emanates from an object or surrounding. To accomplish this, different images are projected in a sufficient number of different observation directions.

Displays of Desire: Imagineering Consumption in Comedies of the Low Countries (1650-1725) Ghent University

Kornee van der Haven
Department of Literary Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Displays of Desire aims to gain insight into how early modern Dutch comedies represent the idea of consumption and desire through theatrical imagination. Doing so, the project not only highlights the importance of a neglected genre in Dutch literary historiography, but it also aims to contribute to scholarly fields that stress the importance of desire and imagination in early modern consumption culture, without, however, paying much attention ...

Cultural Displays and Encounters in Globalizing Urban Areas. A Study of Visual Expressions of Ethnic/National Identity Versus the Emergence of a Transnational Attitude in the European Public Realm. University of Antwerp

Luc Pauwels
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
This project proposes to interrogate the visual dimensions of globalization and acculturation processes (and their opposite forces) as expressed in material culture elements of a varied nature, as well as through visible and recordable aspects of human behavior in urban public spaces. It aims to enrich and complement the more abstract discourse of globalization and transnationalism with empirically grounded insights regarding concrete ...