Projects
An intellectual genealogy of Islam in modern China: categorization, modernization, secularization Ghent University
This project will investigate how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of “religion” and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations between the transition from empire to nation-state, the emergence of the discipline of religious studies, and the repositioning of spirituality over and against secular politics.
Role of autophagy in normal and atherosclerotic arteries University of Antwerp
Gene duplicability and gene expression changes following gene and genome duplication Ghent University
Gene and genome duplications are important processes that lead to novel functions and an overall increase in biological complexity. Hence, which genes undergo duplication and are preserved following duplication is an important question. It has been observed that genes in certain functional categories are more amenable to survive duplication events than others. Although
gene duplicate retention may be explained by various types of ...
ERC Professorship: DOUBLE-UP Ghent University
The long-term establishment of ancient organisms that have undergone whole genome duplications (paleopolyploids) has been exceedingly rare. On the other hand, tens of thousands of now-living species, both plants and animals, are polyploid, and contain multiple copies of their genome (neopolyploids). The apparent paucity of ancient genome duplications and the existence of so many species that are currently polyploid provide an interesting and ...