Projects
Investigation of selective inhibition of histone deacetylase 6 as a therapeutic strategy for Charcot Marie-Tooth disease type 1A Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Dynamic interplay between DNA mehtylation, histone modifications and the activity of super enhancers in the pathogenesis of immature T-ALL Ghent University
Characterisation of epigenetic control of cancer-inflammation by jumonji histone demethylases during hypoxia University of Antwerp
Boundary Stones in the Body: Kidney, Bladder and Gall Stones as Markers of Early Modern Concepts of the Human Body and Its Relations with the Outside World, 1525-1675 Ghent University
How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients had many options to make illness meaningful. Over the past decades historians have shown that bodily experience involved medical, natural-historical, scientific, and religious approaches. We can now go further: how did medical, philosophical and ...
Lay Women: International Experts and Theologians avant-la-lettre. Legacies and Entangled Histories (1945-1962) KU Leuven
The overarching objective of this project is to demonstrate European Catholic lay women's vital contributions as international agents, thinkers and theologians avant-la-lettre, from the end of World War II up to the celebration of the Second Vatican Council (1945-1962). While several studies have dealt with lay (and religious) women during and after the Council, their pioneer role as intellectuals and international experts in the ...
Living with capitalism: comparative histories of inequality (1200-2000) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lost Horizons: Histories and Memories of Unsettlement in the Jain Diaspora Ghent University
Lost Horizons presents an investigation of the history of Jainism and of the Jains that put down roots in Zanzibar, Aden, and Uganda, from the formation of these communities to the geopolitical upheavals that led to their dissolution. It also brings an exploration of the way these abandoned locations continue to affect the lives, preoccupy the minds, and kindle the imaginations of contemporary Jains, touching upon such topics as shared ...
Interfacial bond formation of thermoplastic polymers with deformation histories in additive manufacturing KU Leuven
Polymer-polymer interface is everywhere in 3D printed parts due to the additive manner of manufacturing. Weak interfacial performance often limits functional applications of fused filament fabrication (FFF) printed parts. Although physical processes in FFF are well-known, it has never been noticed that the polymer strands can often be greatly stretched during the deposition to lay down the material. The elongational strain of the stretch can ...
More-than-Human Histories of Rural Landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century Ghent University
Human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. Based on two case studies in indigenous communities of the Bolivian-Chilean highlands, the HI-LANDeS project, which is funded under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, aims primarily to develop a more-than-human approach to investigate the role of communal practices and knowledge production around water and land in the transformation and ...