Projects
The politics of culture in crisis? Negotiating power through culture in the fourth century A.D. KU Leuven
Culture at work. Examining the role of culture in explaining organisational misbehaviour. KU Leuven
Paracrine effects during group culture of bovine embryos as a model for human embryo culture Ghent University
Bovine embryos are routinely produced in goups of 25 because of the improved embryo development in such setting. The superiority of the system is probably caused by the secretion of embryonic paracrine factors, which are positively influencing neighbouring embryos. In part 1 we will investage differential secretion between good (fast) and bad (slow) embryos. Next this model will be used in a human preclinical and clinical study.
Epistolary Culture and the Formation of the Syriac Orthodox Church: The Letters of Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523) KU Leuven
The fifth and sixth centuries were a decisive period for the emergence of the Syriac Orthodox Church, a community rooted in the Middle East which now forms an integral part of European society. The Christological controversies sparked by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 led to divisions between churches that persist to the present. Late antique letters offer rich details about interactions between leaders of the anti-Chalcedonian, miaphysite ...
Optimalisation of in vitro culture conditions (FTOC and OP9) of T cells from human hematopoietic stem cells for the generation and study of mature T cells Ghent University
In this project we will further study and optimise the generation of mature CD3+TCRab+ (CD4+ and CD8+) T-cells from human HSC (from postnatal thymus and cord blood) using the in vitro OP9-DL1 culture system. Several methods for the generation of tumor antigen specific T-cells will be tested out. Finally, these tumor antigen specific T-cells will be introduced in a preclinical mouse model.
A dynamic study of the antecedents and consequences of demographic diversity in organizations: the moderating role of organizational culture. University of Antwerp
Legal culture and language: a study of the linguisticdiscursive aspects of contract law in France, Germany and England from a comparative and historical perspective Ghent University
Comparative law has always been a kind of umbrella concept encompassing different
activities with diverse underlying motives and goals and to that extent, methodological
pluralism is part and parcel of comparative law. In the context of approximation/harmonization initiatives (e.g. EU), scholars in comparative contract law have tended to adopt a (not well elaborated) functionalist approach and limited their research to a mainly ...