Projects
Micro-level performance effect of industry. Science links. KU Leuven
Breakthrough Innovations: their Origins, Diffusion and Appropriation. KU Leuven
Managing forest ecosystem service delivery under climate change: a next generation decision support system. KU Leuven
Climate change has become a major driver of worldwide pervasive shifts in forest ecosystem dynamics. In Europe’s temperate forests, canopy mortality has doubled over the last three decades, with recent drought episodes between 2018 and 2020 exacerbating this trend, triggering die-offs and vitality declines across prominent tree species. However, climate change can also positively impact forest growth through the CO2 fertilization effect and ...
The MesoBreath Study: exhaled Breath as Diagnostic Tool for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Ghent University
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare but very lethal tumour of the serous membranes of the lungs with a
dismal prognosis and is linked to exposure to asbestos fibres (1, 2). Treatment strategies for MPM include radiation
therapy, chemotherapy, surgery and a combination of these methods. There are several chemotherapy treatment
regiments available including single-arm and combination regimes and. more ...
SACReZ: Structure-adsorption-catalysis relations via zeolite topology tuning - a fundamental dive in confinement and diffusion in the context of CO2-to-olefins Vrije Universiteit Brussel
processes play a key role, where intraporous phenomena have a strong link with the reactant
composition. While the fundamentals of thermodynamic adsorption are getting uncovered, the details
of controlling the diffusion and the kinetics of molecules going in and out of these small-pores are
lacking. As pore sizes are ...
Quantitative Metagenomics: use of bacterial strains as internal standards for the analysis of faecal microbials. KU Leuven
Recent technological advances (next-generation sequencing) have enabled new approaches in microbial ecosystem research, including metagenomics: random shotgun sequencing of total DNA from environmental or clinical samples. These developments provided the opportunity to study and monitor various microbial communities associated to the human body at a previously unseen scale, allowing the phylogenetic assessment of the uncultivable fraction of ...
Process-induced structural changes in proteins of quinoa and the impact thereof on their functionalities KU Leuven
The pseudo-cereal quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) has been cultivated for thousands of years in the Andean region. Over the past decade, it has gained interest in Western countries as nutritious gluten-free alternative for wheat in cereal-based food products. Furthermore, its protein has a well-balanced amino acid composition and is an excellent plant-based alternative for animal proteins rich in albumins and globulins.
The ...
Natural metabolite variation: linking genotype to phenotype. KU Leuven
Cells contain many different metabolites. Apart from their role as substrates and products of the different biochemical reactions inside a cell, these small molecules can also affect enzyme activity and gene expression. Since metabolites represent the end result of all cellular regulatory processes, changes in their levels can be indicative of perturbations in these processes. Despite the clear importance of metabolites for the proper ...
EMBRC 2017-2018 Ghent University
Marine (blue) biotechnology is the key to unlocking the huge economic potential of the unique biodiversity of marine organisms. This potential remains largely underexploited due to lack of connectivity between research services, practical and cultural difficulties in connecting science with industry, and high fragmentation of regional research, development and innovation (RDI) policies. To overcome these barriers, EMBRIC (European Marine ...