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Steunpunt Gelijkekansenbeleid: The Business case for diversity Universiteit Hasselt

Elke VALGAEREN
Diversiteit, SEIN
Bedrijven en organisaties worden gevoelig voor de ┐business case for diversity└, hiertoe gedreven door een aantal demografische en maatschappelijke tendensen, met name de veranderde samenstelling van de werknemerspool: diversiteit naar etnische herkomst, meer vrouwen, meer mix van jongeren en ouderen, individuen met verschillende professionele achtergrond... Bovendien zijn ook de waarden die werknemers nastreven in hun leven en hun job ...

Diversiteit uitlokken met de Diversity Checker KU Leuven

Bettina Berendt
Afdeling Informatica

Deze these beschrijft het ontstaan van de Diversity Checker, een tool die bedoeld is om op een intelligente manier uit te lokken dat journalisten diverser materiaal zullen produceren. Diversiteit in de media is een zeer breed onderwerp, en het project waar deze these deel van uitmaakt heeft dan ook betrekking op een breed terrein. Het multidisciplinaire karakter van het project stelt de verschillende disciplines in staat elkaar positief te ...

Single cell genomics of Leishmania: tracking genetic diversity between and within hosts directly in clinical samples Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Jean-Claude Dujardin
Moleculaire Parasitologie, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Genomic Core KU Leuven, Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
In a previous project (GeMInI), our research group performed pioneering work on the genome diversity of Leishmania donovani. Focusing on a cohort of clinical isolates from the Indian subcontinent, we described a large epidemic population, highly homogeneous from a sequence point of view (in average 173 SNPs/strain in 94 % of the strains), but highly heterogeneous in its genome structure, essentially in the form of massive aneuploidy, ...

Effects of tropical rainforest disturbance on gene flow, genomic diversity and introgression in understory trees: the case of Coffea canephora in the Congo basin. Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

Filip Vandelook, Olivier Honnay
ILVO, Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
Tropical rainforests cover only 7% of the earth’s surface, but they are by far the richest biomes in terms of vascular plant diversity. To ensure the resilience and long-term stability of tropical rainforests, fostering the regeneration of the occurring woody plant species is critical. Yet, crucial aspects of gene flow, including pollination and seed dispersal, have become strongly jeopardized
through ongoing large-scale anthropogenic ...

Exploration of genetic diversity, drought tolerance and Fusarium resistance of wild bananas in Vietnam Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

Nina Ronsted, Rony Swennen
Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
Bananas accommodate the fourth most important global food commodity grown in more than 130 countries in tropical and subtropical regions. Global climate change and the everlasting demand to feed a continuously growing world population puts an increasing pressure on banana breeding and cultivation. In an era of globalization and climate change, it is important that novel and superior alleles are identified and conserved from wild relatives of ...

The role of T cell diversity in the pathogenesis of TB-IRIS in HIV/aids patients in Uganda Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Pietro Pala, Luc Kestens
Immunologie
The Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) is an early complication after initiation of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected patients. TB-IRIS is the unmasking of a newly identified or paradoxical worsening of a previously treated tuberculosis infection associated with reconstitution of the immune system after start of ART therapy. The pathogenesis of TB-IRIS is still unknown. It is postulated that it occurs when T ...

From genome to the field: a global study of pathogen genetic and metabolic diversity and its relationship to clinical phenotypes Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Jean-Claude Dujardin
Moleculaire Parasitologie



Characterising the
diversity of pathogen populations is a major key for understanding the clinical polymorphism of infectious diseases. The
past 2 years have brought new technologies
that may revolutionise this field of research as they bring unprecedented potential for global pathogen exploration. On one
hand, economic high-throughput sequencing
technologies allow whole genome comparative analyses ...

Bryophyte diversity along altitudinal gradient in the Virunga region and evaluation of their heavy metal bioaccumulation potential Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

Florian Zanatta
Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
The recent eruption of Nyiragongo offers a rare case study of early land re-colonisation by pioneer species, within which bryophytes play a major role. However the whole region’s bryoflora is very poorly known. Also, the volcano flumes containing heavy metals are regularly hitting the city of Goma, leading to potential agricultural and human health issues.
The first step of this research project will be to study the bryophytes populations ...

Ontvangst Argentijnse onderzoeker Dr. Luciana Gabriela Ruiz Rodriguez : Exploring the microbial diversity of lactic and acetic bacteria in exotic fruits from the Northern Region of Argentina for the production of health-promoting and/or industrially-relev Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Luc De Vuyst
Toegepaste Biologische Wetenschappen
Exploring the microbial diversity of lactic and acetic bacteria in exotic fruits from the Northern Region of Argentina for the production of health-promoting and/or industrially-relevant metabolites

Consequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in the context of HIV co-infection for laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Inacio Mandomando, Frank G.J. Cobbelens, Bouke de Jong
Mycobacteriologie
Objectives
1. To determine the variation and risk factors for drug-resistant tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. To evaluate the clinical utility of a novel molecular assay in various combinations with existing methods for diagnosis of HIV-related tuberculosis.
3. To determine the clinical predictors of mycobacteremia among HIV-infected smear- negative adults in a high prevalence HIV/TB setting in relation to the utility of ...