Projects
Performing kinship with illegalised migrants. Comparing hospitality practices in Brussels and Rome Ghent University
While the so-called European migration crisis has been echoed with increasingly hostile EU border policies and anti-migrant rhetoric, it has also prompted many citizens' solidarity initiatives towards migrants across the continent. In this context, hosting migrants at home emerged as a new, puzzling and exciting phenomena. This project aims to be one of the first to conduct a systematic analysis of the hospitality practices - providing ...
The Contribution of Inscriptional Evidence for the Analysis of the Vulgar Latin Vowel System (ranging from the Republican age to the Proto-Romance Period). Rome and Italy: a comparative study. Ghent University
The project studies how the vowel system of so-called "Classical Latin" (CL) evolved into the vowel system of the Romance languages from a diachronic, diatopic, and sociolinguistic perspective (the former system was based on distinctions of vowel quantity, while the latter is mostly based on quality oppositions). To this end, the research considers two different kinds of evidence: metalinguistic testimonies in Latin grammarians ("the indirect ...
Macrophage activation syndrome in IFN-gamma-deficient mice: key role of natural killer cells and role of defective IFN-gamma signaling. KU Leuven
Function of PERK in T cell metabolic reprogramming: deciphering its role as ER stress sensor vs its novel role as coordinator of membrane contact sites KU Leuven
Metabolic reprogramming plays a crucial role in T cell development, differentiation, and acquisition of effector functions. Inadequate metabolic fitness of T cells is a critical factor limiting the efficacy of immunotherapy for cancer therapy, highlighting the need for studies to improve our understanding of T cell metabolic regulation. Growing evidence indicates that metabolism is regulated at highly specialized sites of close appositions ...
The role of extracellular vesicle-microRNAs in Parkinson’s disease: from critical insights into their role in neuroinflammation towards novel microRNA-based therapies KU Leuven
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease worldwide, desperately in need for more effective treatment. Albeit neuroinflammation is known to be a major event in PD pathophysiology, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Increasing evidence points to a role for extracellular vesicles (EVs) in this process, being important mediators of intercellular communication. Moreover, dysregulation of several ...
Addressing the 'home' in home delivery - A placemaking approach to optimise e-commerce activities and improve residential areas. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
decade, not in the least in response to e-commerce. Accelerated by
the COVID-19 pandemic, online business models have become
important alternatives to stores. As a sector that relies on home
deliveries, e-commerce impacts the environments in which it
operates, including very locally. To reduce the negative
environmental impacts, research focuses ...