Projects
Effects of Male Obesity, Estrogen Levels, and Endocrine Disruptors on the Epigenetic Reprogramming in Male Gametes KU Leuven
The Influence of the Environment on Gametic Epigenetic Reprogramming
Transplantation of spermatogonial stem cells into genetically infertile male mice KU Leuven
19 September 2015 Research proposal for Hai Zhou, Ph.D.
Background
My 2014 Cell Research paper:
As a Master's student in the laboratory of Professor Jinsong Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, I established SSC culture, SSC transplantation, SSC electrotransfection and FACS of haploid gametes. My colleagues and I then applied the newly developed CRISPR-Cas9 system for genome editing in SSCs. Our ...
The Biopolitics of the Dressed Male Body: Understanding Normative Embodied Masculinities in Everyday Life in Belgium and Italy University of Antwerp
Analysis of genes involved in male infertility Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Elective egg freezing in India: An ethnographic study of female reproductive choice, male perspectives and the disruption of socio-cultural norms Ghent University
Elective Egg Freezing (EEF) provides women with the possibility to delay childbearing and still have a genetically related child. This project aims to contribute ethnographic insights from India - an Asian lower-middle-income country - to the global literature on user perspectives on EEF by 1) examining Indian women’s views and decisions about EEF and the views of their male family members and friends, and 2) analyzing if the act of using EEF ...
Post-Communist Sexualities: Social Construction of Homosexual Male Identities in Bulgaria. University of Antwerp
On farm comparison of different alternatives for surgical castration of male piglets Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
How do pig farmers evaluate four alternatives for surgical castration without anaesthesia? This research aimed at evaluating the practicability of each of the alternatives on farm level. Castration of piglets is a painful procedure, but still performed because it effectively eliminates boar taint. This off-odour can be present in the meat of entire male pigs. Retailers want to avoid negative ...
How to raise entire male pigs and immunocastrates Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
This research has a practical purpose: to study the experience on farms where non-castrated male pigs are produced. What advantages and disadvantages experience the pig farmers who switched early to the production of entire male pigs and immunocastrates? Which best practices exist to deal with increased aggressive or sexual behaviour in these animals, or to optimise performances? How do we ...
A silenced reality on the way to the United Kingdom: sexual violence in male migrants in transit in Belgium and France Ghent University
Contrary to gender stereotypes portraying male migrants as dangerous, hypersexual and invulnerable, research indicates male migrants face high risks to experience sexual violence. With sexual victimization rates reaching up to 37,20% in male migrants in transit in Morocco, sexual violence seems to be particularly common along the route and in transit. This regularity of male sexual violence has recently been reported in migrants in transit on ...