Projects
Books from the Low Countries in Colonial Colombia and Bolivia KU Leuven
The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. The knowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively in the shape of printed books and engravings. On the other side, the printed book was the medium by excellence by which European knowledge was taken to the most remote parts of the earth. Printing houses in the Southern Netherlands played an ...
The semantic and pragmatic extensions of the Spanish conditional KU Leuven
The evolution of the Spanish conditional form has yielded a variety of temporal, modal and evidential meanings. However, there is no comprehensive typology of the newly evolved uses of the conditional that do not fit into the existing classifications and that accounts for the emergence of new meanings. This project sets out to provide an exhaustive classification of the meanings and uses of the Spanish conditional form and to determine the ...
Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity (COBIMFO). Ghent University
The relationship between C stock, fluxes and biodiversity in the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin is investigated. Therefore, intensive monitoring of these variables will be performed in pristine and intervened dense tropical forests in Yangambi, along a forest productivity gradient.
The project is a partnership between UGent, Royal Museum for Central Africa, ULB, UCL, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Royal Belgian ...
Successfulintroduction of the cultivation of sweet potatoes in Flanders PCG-Vegetable Research Centre
Phage-host interactions in the Salmonella Typhimurium - temperate phage P22 model system KU Leuven
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Many phage genes lack sequence similarity to any other open reading frame (ORF) in current databases. These enigmatic ORFan genes can have a tremendous impact on phage propagation and host interactions but often remain experimentally unexplored. We previously revealed a novel interaction between phage P22 and its Salmonella Typhimurium host, instigated by the ORFan gene pid (for phage P22 ...
FWO WOG Process Mining - Expanding the horizon Hasselt University
Microchip based Impedance Sensors for in situ Evaluation of evaluation of Bacterial Biofilm Formation (See2B). KU Leuven
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Biofilms are complex, highly variable, surface-associated communities of microorganisms, embedded in a self-produced matrix. Within biofilms bacteria are up to 1000 times more tolerant to antibiotics, disinfectants and other stresses.[1] Several factors contribute to this increased tolerance, such as protection by the biofilm matrix, slow growth and low metabolic activity of bacteria within biofilms, biofilm ...
Biocontrol and anti-biofilm molecules to control rhizogenic agrobacteria in tomato cultivation (BARATOM). KU Leuven
This project aims to investigate alternative control systems of biofilm formation. In the first instance, the project focuses on companies with a tomato, cucumber or aubergine cultivation.
Scaling up multiphase photoreactions utilizing repetitive structures KU Leuven
Photochemistry has many benefits such as high selectivity, mild reaction conditions and access to new reaction pathways. A high selectivity reduces the number of downstream processes required to obtain a product with the desired purity. Furthermore, it is expected that energy costs will increase, making energy-intensive processes, where high temperatures and pressures are used, less feasible. New reaction pathways can reduce the required ...