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Optical nanomotion detection as a universal method for assessing life — from rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing to the search for extraterrestrial life.

Feb 16

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Vjera Radoničić

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Bart Devreese, WE10 - prof. dr. Ronnie Willaert, VUB
Good Grief: How Metabolites from Dying Cells Help and Harm

Feb 19

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Laura Boeckaerts

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Kodi Ravichandran, WE14 - prof. dr. Lars Vereecke, GE35
The Campylobacter-Microbiome-Undernutrition nexus in young children with diarrhea: Zoonotic transmission and enteric health

Feb 23

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Wondemagegn Mulu Lingerew

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Marie Joossens, WE10 - prof. dr. Kurt Houf, DI07 - prof. dr. Mulugeta Azene, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Development of transition metal-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) mediated transformations

Mar 02

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Pierre Arnaut

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Steven Nolan, WE06 - prof. dr. Catherine Cazin, WE06
Seeing is Believing: Shedding Light on the Mode of Action of a Biocontrol Agent in Wheat

Mar 04

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Celine De Pessemier

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Sofie Goormachtig, WE09 - prof. dr. Daniël Van Damme, WE09 - dr. Kelly Hamonts, Aphea.Bio - dr. Michiel Vandecasteele, WE09
Deep learning models for predicting molecular tumor properties directly from whole slide images

Mar 04

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Marija Pizurica

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: bio-informatica en in de ingenieurswetenschappen: computerwetenschappen

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Kathleen Marchal, EA05,WE09 - prof. dr. Thomas Demeester, EA05 - prof. dr. Olivier Gevaert, Stanford University, USA
Shedding light on dark sirens

Mar 06

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Cezary Turski

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: fysica

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Archisman Ghosh, WE05 - em. prof. dr. Dirk Ryckbosch, WE05
Microplastic pollution in Vietnamese beaches: the role of physical and biological processes with a focus on the benthos

Mar 13

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Thi Mỹ Yên Nguyễn

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Ellen Pape, WE11 - prof. dr. Carl Van Colen, WE11 - em. prof. dr. Ann Vanreusel, WE11 - prof. dr. Xuan Quang Ngo, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
From Reads to Reality: Optimizing the Performance of Long-Read Nanopore Shotgun Metagenomics for Assembly-Free Microbial Detection

Mar 13

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Alexander Van Uffelen

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: bio-informatica

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Kathleen Marchal, EA05; WE09 - dr. Kevin Vanneste, Sciensano
Uncovering SnRK1 signalling pathways controlling starch degradation and transcriptional regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Mar 18

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences

Doctoral candidate

Toon Mertens

Academic degree

Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

Promotor(s)

prof. dr. Geert De Jaeger, WE09 - dr. Jelle Van Leene, WE09