Projects
Occupational and environmental causes of sarcoidosis: clarifying epidemiology, improving in vitro detection, and development of an animal model KU Leuven
RT 20/4 ALTERTOX - Towards risk assessment of Alternaria mycotoxins: comparative in vitro toxicity, and in vivo toxicokinetics in pigs as surrogate animal model for humans Ghent University
ALTERTOX aims to clarify following research questions:
- What is the in vitro cytotoxicity of alternariol, alternariol-monomethylether, tenuazonic acid and relevant mixtures thereof towards intestinal epithelial cells and hepatocytes of human and porcine origin? This will enable the calculation of the mycotoxin concentration at which 50% of the cells show loss in viability (EC50 endpoint), and to determine the ...
The perservation of in vitro grown plant tissue cultures and application for the production of secondary metabolites with potential to control economically important pest insects Ghent University
The perservation of in vitro grown plant tissue cultures and application for the production of secondary metabolites with potential to control economically important pest insects.
Investigation on the conversion profile of masked deoxynivalenol and zaralenone in the porcine and human gastrointestinal tract Ghent University
The research proposal aims to clarify the following research questions.
1. To what extent are zearalenone, a-zearalenol or b-zearalenol released from zearalenone-14-glucoside, zearalenone-14-sulfate, a-zearalenol-14-glucoside and b-zearalenol-14-glucoside, frequently occurring masked derivatives in cerealbased food and feed during digestion?
2. To what extent is deoxynivalenol released from deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside, a frequently ...
3D multicellular culture systems for real time insights in physical and chemical signals underlying stem cell morphogenesis and lineage fateAcronym: 3DMuSyC KU Leuven
contribution of sustainable agriculture for food security in northeast Congo Basin Ghent University
VlIR-UOS project with the University of Kisangani, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. This project includes three parts: (1) soil fertility (G. Baert), (2) plant protection (G. Haesaert), and (3), banana production (R. Swennen). Three laboratories are arranged (soil, crop protection and in-vitro) for support of the investigation. Different Masters and doctoral will be supported.