Organisation
Biology
Department
The three main research orientations of the department are: molecular biology, human biology and environment. The project focus on the following areas: 1. Parasitology; 2. Immunology and cancer therapy; 3. Development biology; 4. Environmental genetics; 5. Bio-diversity and plant genetics/engineering; 6. Nature conservation; 7. Marine and terrestrial ecology; 8. Mangroves preservation; 9. Eco-(geno) toxicity.
Current researchers
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- Ángela Aristizábal Botero (Member)
- Barbora Augstenová (Member)
- Elias Beck (Member)
- Stephen Bergacker (Member)
- Laura Bossaer (Member)
- Franky Bossuyt (Member)
- Kristien Brans (Member)
- Natacha Brion (Member)
- Natcha Buncherd (Member)
- Fantin Carpentier (Member)
Projects
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- Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in Coupled Human and Natural Systems - interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on the evolution of freshwater species and the socio-ecological consequencesFrom1 May 2024 → TodayFunding: University - Project driven research
- House of Sustainable TransitionsFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: IOF - technology validation in lab, IOF - mandates
- Effects of veterinary antibiotics on plant-soil interaction, plant performance and plant community compositionFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- AGRIWILDING: evaluating the potential of merging biodiversity restoration and sustainable food production in future agri-environmental schemes.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Protecting plant diversity via stoichiometric nutrient networks across Europe’ (DiviN-P)From1 Apr 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Evolutionary genomics of unconventional sex chromosomes in robber frogsFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Mangrove Specialist Group (MSG) – IUCN SSC MSGFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: International Cooperation and Mobility
- Threatened coral reef megafauna: a genomic approach to support the conservation of giant clams.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- OZR backup mandate: The interplay of plants, mammalian herbivores, insects and global change in savannaFrom1 Nov 2022 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- BIRDSCAPES - quantifying resource landscapes as a tool for waterbird conservation in FlandersFrom1 Nov 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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- Microgeographic differentiation in thermal performance curves between rural and urban populations of an aquatic insect
Authors: Nedim Tüzün, Lin Op de Beeck, Kristien Brans, Lizanne Janssens, Robby Stoks
Pages: 1067-1075 - Interspecific variations in responses of mangrove seedlings to two contrasting salinities.
Authors: Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 700-710. - Human Induced Evolution - Special Issue
Authors: Miguel Baltazar-Soares, Kristien Brans, Christophe Eizaguirre
Pages:  2333-2567 - Phenology of Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh. in a disjunctly zoned mangrove stand in Kenya.
Authors: Virginia Wang'ondu, James Gitundu Kairo, Jenesio I. Kinyamario, Jelvas Mwaura, Nico Koedam
Pages: 135-144 - Prey colonization in freshwater landscapes can be stimulated or inhibited by the proximity of remote predators(2020)
Authors: Beth Turner, Hendrik Trekels, Mathil Vandromme, Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Pages: 1766-1774 - Epigenetic memory in response to environmental stressors(2017)
Authors: Paolo Vineis, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Vincent T Cunliffe, James M Flanagan, Mark Hanson, Micheline Volders, Soterios Kyrtopoulos
Pages: 2241-2251 - Comparative performance between invasive alien Eichhornia crassipes and native Ludwigia stolonifera under nutrient non-limiting conditions: Lake Naivasha, Kenya.(2009)
Authors: Josphine Njambuya
- Structural characterisation of mangrove forests achieved through combining multiple sources of remote sensing data(2020)
Authors: Richard Lucas, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Viviana Otero, David Lagomasino, Lola Fatoyinbo, Hamdan Omar, Behara Satyanarayana, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
- Molecular phylogeny of Kalyptorhynchia (Rhabdocoela, Platyhelminthes) inferred from ribosomal sequence data(2014)
Authors: Bart S. Tessens, Tom Artois
Pages: 519-530 - Effects of experimental sedimentation on the phenological dynamics and leaf traits of replanted mangroves at Gazi bay, Kenya(2014)
Authors: Judith A. Okello, Elisabeth Robert, Hans Beeckman, James Gitundu Kairo, Farid Dahdouh Guebas, Nico Koedam
Pages: 3187-3200