Tenure track professorship in physiology and cell physiology Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
Oral drug administration is the most commonly used route of drug administration. Oral drug absorption-related processes, including, solubility, dissolution, permeation and metabolism, are highly dependent on the gastrointestinal (GI) physiology. Hence, the success of an oral drug formulation can be affected by an altered GI physiology. Several factors have been hypothesized to affect GI physiology, including age, GI diseases (e.g., ulcerative ...
Advanced multivariate analysis tools for characterizing interactions among brain-brain and brain-body rhythms will be developed based on available multichannel and multimodal physiological datasets, including, e.g., electroencephalogram (EEG), electrocardiogram (ECG), respiratory, and electrogastrogram (EGG) signals. The focus will be on the development of novel algorithmic tools that acknowledge both the systemic and dynamic (i.e., ...
Cys-loop family of pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGCs) play crucial roles in fast neurotransmission, which thereby contributes to fundamental nervous system functions in animals, such as motion and learning. The most diverse pLGCs superfamily known is found in nematodes, and the Cys-loop pLGCs are encoded by over 100 genes in C.elegans. However, the ligands and physiological functions of most pLGCs are still unraveled. In the ...
Insects comprise 80% of the world’s animal species representing the largest and most diverse life form on the planet. Over evolutionary time, insects occupied and adapted to widely divergent habitats, resulting in a rich variation of body plans with different shapes, sizes, and specialized feeding mechanisms. They thus represent a unique opportunity to gain insight in the mechanisms that control feeding and metabolism and how they change ...