Projects
A Face of One's Own. Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Intellectual Authority in Early Modern Europe KU Leuven
This project investigates women’s historical effort to embody intellectual authority, by analyzing portraits of learned women as agents of public image in the male-dominated European intellectual field (1550-1800).
The complex position of learned women in the early modern public sphere has been the focus of increased attention. However, recent historical studies are characterized by a strongly biographical and text-based methodology ...
The Persuasive Power of Protest. An Experimental Study of the Effect of Protest Coverage on Citizens and Political Elites. University of Antwerp
The Didascalic Imagination: Contemporary theatrical notebooks as genetic documents of the artistic process. University of Antwerp
Induction of programmed cell death by synergistic modulation of glycolytic flux and Ras activity in yeast and cancer cells KU Leuven
Catabolic breakdown of glucose through glycolysis is one the most ancient and conserved ways to fuel and maintain bioenergetic homeostasis. Both yeast and cancer cells ferment glucose to ethanol or lactate, respectively, to support vigorous cell division. Cancerous growth poses an important threat to human health as currently millions of people yearly succumb to its consequences. Fast proliferating cancer cells often rely on strong glucose ...
Advanced dynamic computer-generated holography for high-end holographic visualization Vrije Universiteit Brussel
complexity of 3D objects and environments will be limited to traditional displays. That is why multiple
3D display technologies have been devised targeting to solve this limitation. Examples include
stereoscopic displays, light-field ...
Beyond the retail revolution? Shopping culture and city landscape, Brussels 1830-1914. KU Leuven
This book is about the history of the Brussels shopping landscape during the nineteenth century. Although the increasing commercialization of the nineteenth-century urban landscape has long been a topos in historiography, the entirety and diversity of shopping spaces has not yet been the object of thorough research. For decades, historians of retail and shopping have mostly been concerned with ‘modern’ forms of retail, such as the ...
CARGO: advancing chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy using nanobody-displaying lentiviral vectors Vrije Universiteit Brussel
However, similar results have not been obtained in the context of solid tumors. Among the top priorities to develop an affordable and ...
Particle-surface interactions in nonpolar liquids Ghent University
Electrophoretic ink displays are a technology offering the quality of printed paper and very low
power consumption. They contain electrically charged black and white pigment particles in a
nonpolar liquid such as oil, that can be moved around by applying appropriate voltages. This way,
every pixel of the display can be made either black or white. For low energy consumption the
particles need to stay at the surface when ...
Xeno-nucleic acid polymerases by directed evolution. KU Leuven
Artificial or xeno nucleic acids (XNAs) present an alternative to natural genetic polymers by expanding chemical diversity and improving chemical and biological stability, with potential applications in, for example, therapeutics. XNA differs from its natural counterparts by modifications applied to the nucleobases, sugar-phosphate backbone, nucleotide leaving group, or a combination of these. In the long run, XNA could form the basis of an ...