PhD Pitch Presentations

 

Name Research Group Title

Jonas Schoelynck

ECOBE What have hippos in common with glaciers? The story of a peculiar element…

Lennert Schepers

ECOBE Spatial patterns and bio-geomorphological effects of vegetation loss in a submerging coastal marsh

Laurine Burdorf

ECOBE How microbes discovered electricity way before Allesandro Volta

Elvio Amato

SPHERE Development of an active-passive sampling device for measuring bioavailable pollutants in water

Lies Teunen

SPHERE Assessing the quality of Flemish waterbodies using Biota Quality Standards

Bart Slootmaekers

SPHERE Metal bioaccumulation in macroinvertebrates from metal polluted sites with a good ecological index

Nina Dehnhard

BECO How many portions of ice? Investigating the foraging behaviour of Antarctic fulmarine petrels in response to environmental conditions

Manrico Sebastiano

BECO Administration of antioxidants as a tool to treat a viral disease in the Magnificent frigatebird

Bert Thys

BECO Integrating female competition within a personality and life history framework

Katleen Huyghe

FUNMORPH Form, function, and reproductive fitness

Sam Van Wassenbergh

FUNMORPH Experimental and computational modelling analyses of the biomechanics of vertebrates

Menelia Vasilopoulou Kampitsi

FUNMORPH The Lizard inner ear: a functional and eco-morphological approach

Sara Vicca

PLECO The terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks to climate change

Johan De Gruyter

PLECO Studying soil microbial food web dynamics using a new molecular approach

Joanna Horemans

PLECO Decomposing and explaining the temporal variation in a 15 year net ecosystem exchange time series of a Belgian mixed forest

Lucinda Kirkpatrick

EVECO The role of environmental and spatial drivers in host demography, behaviour and infection

Omid Ekrami

EVECO Fluctuating asymmetry, sexual dimorphism and attractiveness in humans: The development towards A 3D approach

Gerardo Fracasso

EVECO Host-parasite interactions in a songbird-tick system

Jonas Bertels

IMPRES Identification of the molecular and physiological mechanisms involved in cadmium inhibited leaf growth in the maize leaf growth zone

Katrien Sprangers

IMPRES Understanding the regulation of leaf size in maize with the help of mutants

Małgorzata Zdanio

IMPRES Characterization of apollo, an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant with increased hypocotyl and petiole growth