Linguapolis search menu search content Prior knowledge When you register for an OLC, please make your own assessment of your prior knowledge using the chart below. Based on that self-assessment, you will be put in a group with speakers of a similar comprehension. The level grading is not strict, but…

Peripheral Neuropathy Research Group search menu search content Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is a group of slowly progressing peripheral neuropathies. Over 2,5 million people suffer from CMT neuropathy, but most CMT therapeutic studies are in a laboratory or pre-clin…

Sandra Nauwelaerts unpaid staff Research Sandra Nauwelaerts Research team Functional Morphology Comparative functional and ecological morphology of the perissodactyl limb: insights into the adaptive evolution of the Equidae. 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2018 Abstract This project will investigate the evolutio…

B-MAGIC search menu search content The Magic Lantern Experience: Mapping Cultural Exchanges between Slide-producing Countries and Belgium Postdoc: WYNANTS Nele (ULB) | Supervisor: VANHAESEBROUCK Karel (ULB) Cultural exchange between European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries contributed greatly …

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content NETs Negative Emission Technologies for CO2 removal Basalt NETs manipulation experiment NETs manipulation experiment Biochar Achieving the climate targets as agreed at the climate summit in Paris requires rapid decarbonization of all sectors. However,…

Laura Mariën predoc researcher FWO Research Laura Mariën Research team Center for Oncological Research (CORE) Improving diagnostic accuracy and follow-up of neuroendocrine neoplasms through detection of (epi)genetic biomarkers in liquid biopsies using novel technological platforms. 01/11/2022 - 31…

ScreenUrSelf search menu search content From virus to cervical cancer What is HPV? In Flanders, 350 women get cervical cancer every year. This cancer is caused by a virus: human papillomavirus or HPV. The virus is transmitted through sexual contact and is highly contagious. Most women and men have a…

Sustainable chemistry search menu search content Advanced sustainable products - Sustainable chemistry Advanced Sustainable Products In the pursuit for sustainable society, the chemical industry is looking for “greener” alternatives to various products with known or suspected toxicity for humans…

Robert Jan Willem De Keizer unpaid guest prof. Publications Robert Jan Willem De Keizer Optic nerve biopsies in unexplained progressive optic neuropathy in two adults reveal optic nerve gliomas Source Journal of neuro-ophthalmology - ISSN 1070-8022-43:4 (2023) p. e224-e226 Author(s) Michel Van Lint,…

Reuse Lab search menu search content Design for sustainable perception (design research) Over the last decade, designers have become aware of the impact they have in terms of sustainability. The trend to use more sustainable materials in their new designs is slowly becoming a habit. Designers are su…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 42 Non-vaccinated Belgians have more physical interactions August 24th 2021 Large majority of participants in the Great Corona Study spontaneously share vaccination status A large majority of vaccinated Belgians tell family and friends…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 32 36% think the circumstances at their workplace are safer today March 9th 2021 23% of participants in the Great Corona Study still have at least one symptom four months after infection Fatigue and shortness of breath are the most com…

The Great Corona Study search menu search content Results survey 24 One in three says they will not celebrate Christmas in a restricted social circle November 20th 2020 Eight out of ten participants in the Great Corona Study say they have no travel plans for the end-of-year period December is slowly…

B-MAGIC search menu search content LICHTSPOREN Tour at House of Mysteries in Ghent with installations, demonstrations and unique collections (10-14/11/2021) Scientists and illusionists organise an event together during Lichtfestival Gent “Light festivals have existed for centuries, spreading scien…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Rock dust can remove a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere Scientists from UAntwerp and elsewhere expect a lot from this special technology Will we eventually spray powdered rock from airplanes over certain ecosystems to tackle climate change? It seems qui…

Timon Vandamme assistant professor - fund. clinical researcher Research Timon Vandamme Research team Center for Oncological Research (CORE) Creation, development and validation of an experimental protocol to obtain paired T-cell receptor alpha and beta data from FFPE tissue at a single cell level. 0…

EAUH2022 search menu search content I12 - The Memory of Urban Inequality Session details Organizer(s) Sebastian Haumann (University of Antwerp) Abstract This session discusses how different layers of the urban past are taken up in current controversies over urban development. The contributions show …

Applied Engineering Change of deans Change of deans Change of deans On 1 September 2020, dean Walter Sevenhans will pass on the torch to Professor Tom Breugelmans. Naturally, a change of dean requires a retrospective and a look forward. Retrospective by dean Walter Sevenhans - Nothing as constant as…

Valeriya Malysheva assistant professor Research Valeriya Malysheva Research team VIB CMN - Computational Neurobiology Expertise Network reconstruction for studying cell fate acquisition and maintenance. Deciphering the role of chromatin organisation in normal and aberrant cell fate acquisition. Nove…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content Students with functional disabilities Written in collaboration with the Study Advice and Student Counselling Service. There are many different categories of functional disabilities, particularly physical disabilities, chronic illnes…

Raewyn Town guest prof. external funds - professor - guest professor Research Raewyn Town Research team Ecosphere Expertise environmental physical chemistry, electrochemistry, nanoparticle reactivity, measurement and modelling of dynamic chemical speciation, bioavailability and bioaccumulation Quant…

EAUH2022 search menu search content S33 - Summerhouses and Garden Plots Summerhouses and Garden Plots in State-socialist Europe after World War II Session details Organizer(s) Epp Lankots (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Marija Dremaite (Vilnius University) Keywords Summerhouses, Allotment gardens, So…

Dirk Snyders emeritus with assignment Research Dirk Snyders Research team Experimental Neurobiology Unit (ENU) Expertise Electrophysiological analysis and Patch clamp. Elucidating the pathogenicity of genetic variants of uncertain significance in Brugada syndrome patients by functional modelling in …

EAUH2022 search menu search content S19 - Don't Even Think Of Parking Here! Don't Even Think Of Parking Here! Negotiation of Claims and Rights for Use of Urban Public Space Session details Author(s) Angelka Psenner (TU Wien) Keywords Motorized Individual Transport, Parking Urban Space Abstract The a…

Entrepreneurship bootcamp | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University search menu search content Business cases previous editions Over the past five years, students worked together on the development of 25 different business cases. A selection out of the list of the business cases, including some po…