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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- Can germination strategies help to understand regional co-occurrence of two morphologically conserved congeneric macrophytes?(2023)
Authors: Lise Beirinckx, Ludwig Triest, Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Pages: 888-901 - A new highland species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1871 (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Pantepui region, northern South America(2011)
Authors: Philippe Kok, Bruce Means
Pages: 1-19 - Alternative interactions define Gyrase specificity in the CcdB family(2012)
Authors: Natalie De Jonge, Mario Simic, Lieven Buts, Sarah Haesaerts, Kim Roelants, Abel Garcia-Pino, Yann Sterckx, Henri De Greve, Jurij Lah, Remy Loris
Pages: 965-978 - Correction(2017)
Authors: Sabine A. S. Langie, Katarzyna Szarc Vel Szic, Ken Declerck, Sophie Traen, Gudrun Koppen, Guy Van Camp, Greet Schoeters, Wim Vanden Berghe, Patrick De Boever
- Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist(2012)
Authors: Gilson Rivas, César Molina, Gabriel Ugueto, Tito Barros, César Barrio-Amoros, Philippe Kok
Pages: 1-64 - Mangrove Propagule Dispersal in a Shallow and Narrow Coastal Lagoon: A Simulation-Based Assessment of the Setiu Wetlands, Malaysia(2022)
Authors: Zuraini Zainol, Atteleth Don Peris, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Nur Hannah Abd Rahim, Behara Satyanarayana, Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 1-16 - Differences in root architecture influence attraction of fishes to mangroves: A field experiment mimicking roots of different length, orientation, and complexity.(2010)
Authors: Ivan Nagelkerken, Andre De Schryver, M.c. Verweij, Farid Dahdouh Guebas, G. Van Der Velde, Nico Koedam
Pages: 27-34 - First song description of the humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae (Balaenopteridae: Artiodactyla), breeding off Nicaragua(2023)
Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt, Divna Djokic, Renata S. Sousa-Lima, Federica Pace
Pages: 1-9 - Mangroves facing climate change: landward migration potential in response to projected scenarios of sea level rise(2014)
Authors: Diana Di Nitto, Griet Neukermans, Nico Koedam, Helen Defever, Frank Pattyn, James Gitundu Kairo, Farid Dahdouh Guebas
Pages: 857-871 - Biomanipulation of hypereutrophic ponds: when it works and why it fails(2012)
Authors: Anatoly Peretyatko, Samuel Teissier, Sylvia De Backer
Pages: 1517-1531