Projects
Securing tunnelling and Internet protocols across the network stack KU Leuven
In this research project, the security of tunnelling and Internet protocols will be studied. We take a systems-wide perspective and study properties such as reliability, privacy, integrity, authenticity, and so on, across the full network stack. The first focus will be on tunnelling protocols, such as IPIP, GRE, IPsec, and other VPN protocols. A second focus is on the security of (virtual or private) networks where users distrust each other, ...
Inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy at semiconductor/insulator interfaces. KU Leuven
Ab-Initio NEGF transport for next generation energy-efficient 2D material transistors including Cold-Source-, Dirac- and Van-der-Waals tunneling FETs KU Leuven
Uncovering the mechanism underlying and consequences of alphaherpesvirus-induced formation of tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) Ghent University
Communication between cells is of essential importance in all physiological and pathological processes in multicellular organisms. A relatively recently discovered method of cell-cell communication consists of the formation of long cell projections by one cell that may reach to and dock onto other, distantly located, cells, resulting in exchange of biological information between these previously unconnected cells. These cell projections have ...
The herpesvirus toolkit to elucidate the molecular biology of tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) and TNT-like cell projections Ghent University
Communication between cells is of essential importance in all physiological and pathological processes in multicellular organisms. A relatively recently discovered method of cell-cell communication consists of the formation of long cell projections by one cell that may cross the extracellular matrix and/or may reach and dock onto other, distantly located, cells, resulting in exchange of biological information between these previously ...
Tunneling nanotubes induced by the US3 protein of alphaherpesviruses Ghent University
Our research team has discovered that alphaherpesviruses can spread from one cell to another via the induction of cell projections, so-called tunneling nanotubes (TNTs). These TNTs are induced by the viral kinase US3. The aim of the project is to unravel the mechanism of US3-induced TNT formation and to investigate which type of information is spread via the TNTs.