Projects
Influence of prebiotics on pre-emptic colonisation and resulting protection against bacterial infections of the intestine in an optimized in vitro model Ghent University
Before intestinal pathogens cause infections, they need to attach and pnetrate the mucus layer, so they can adhere to the epithelium. A little studied effect of prebiotics is their potential to reduce the adhesion of pathogens. For this research several in vitro methods will be developed such as the extension of the SHIME with a module to simulate the intestinal surface.
Elucidation of the role of the PSeudomonas aeruginosa OprD porine in the internationalisation of this bacterium into CFTR airway epithelial cells as the determinative factor for the colonisation of cystic fibrosis patients Ghent University
Unpublished epidemiologic study results indicate that only certain Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, marked by specific alleles of the oprD porine protein encoding gene are able to colonize cystic fibrosis patients. Construction of different OprD mutants and infection with these bacterial strains of different in vitro airway epithelial cell line cultures willenable to elucidate the role of this porin in internationalisation of this bacterium in ...
The Holy See negotiating decolonization (1945–1958) KU Leuven
This research project focuses on the role of the Catholic Church in the decolonization of the French Empire in Central Africa and the Belgian Congo. More specifically, it focuses on the construction of Catholic elites, from the 1940s to the 1960s. Through a selection of politico-religious trajectories of African and European clerics, this research shows how the issue of Africanization and politicization of the clergy shaped interactions ...
The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire, 1960s-2000s KU Leuven
While political, economic, military and demographic aspects of the decolonization of Belgian Congo have been studied thoroughly, our knowledge of the postolonial developments in the Roman Catholic Church in Congo remains limited to specific topics (e.g., the massacres of missionaries in the 1960s) or general narratives (e.g., inculturation and dialogue). This research project wants to examine how the Church decolonized in the first decades of ...
The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire KU Leuven
Understanding settler-Indigenous negotiations: how Indigenous decolonization movements provoke political change in Canada. Ghent University
The goal of this project is to provide an understanding of the negotiation that takes place between Indigenous forms of political agency and settler state structures in Canada. Indigenous decolonial activists often perceive themselves as largely antithetical to and operating independently from the settler state structures they challenge. This project, however, starts from the assumption that Indigenous activists and settler state structures ...
Learning Network on Decolonization – Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Ghent University
The Learning Network on Decolonisation of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences aims to initiate activities to decolonize education, research and services to students and staff. The network brings together students and staff from the different departments and programs at PSW, to colearn and co-create knowledge and practices to help reform both the curricula and teaching and research practices, as well as student and staff policies at ...
Tracks for the decolonization of the Belgian development cooperation. University of Antwerp
SEQuential REcolonizaTion [Seqret] - an alternative approach to design next-generation probiotics KU Leuven
The use of and interest in probiotics to modulate the human intestinal microbiota as a therapeutic strategy has sharply increased in recent years. Different microbiome-based studies in various pathologies have identified bacterial markers associated with different diseases. However, the low sample size, methodological differences and the normal-range microbiota variation result in a lack of consensus between many of the studies. To solve, ...