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Death care | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Death care What about the dead in times of climate crisis, pandemics, and multiculturalism? Sooner or later, death becomes part of everybody's life. Often, conversations after death concern mourning or care for the people left behind by the deceased. But what ca…
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death Online book club on the book by Susana Monsó Our project facilitates an online book club on the book Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó. We hope that this fascinating book provides a starti…
| Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Dealing with Human Remains This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. On the opening night we delve into one of the most fundamental questions of death car…
| Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content The Green Death This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. The popularity of ecological burial methods is on the rise. Humusation or resomation are conside…
| Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Intercultural Rituals and Death Care This lecture is in the past. It took place in Dutch. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. Different cultural and religious traditions employ different rituals and pr…
| Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Death Care in Times of Crisis This lecture is in the past. Did you miss the lecture? E-mail emma.moormann@uantwerpen.be to receive a link to the recording. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our burial practices: funerals were to be held in small parties, online, o…
| Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content *** This symposium will take place in Dutch. *** On Tuesday the 21 of October our first yearly symposium will take place. During this event, our researchers present their insights and hope to foster dialogue with and between participants. This symposium is broad…
People | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content People In our project, we are trying to bring together many people and organizations involved in sustainable death care. The research in our project is conducted by a research team in which three institutions are represented: University of Antwerp, KU Leuven and…
Publications | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Publications 2025 De groene dood (essay in Dutch) Uitgeverij Letterwerk - ISBN 9789083567402 Katrien Schaubroeck Link to the website of the publisher Art–science collaborations in biotechnology research: a transdisciplinary approach In Trends in biotechnology:…
| Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Basic as well as applied research on mechanisms, treatment and prevention of cell death-driven diseases, with focus on ferroptosis (kind of biological rust). We follow an integrated approach from knowledge building and discovery to (pre)clinical resear…
Facilities | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Facilities The CDS lab has standard access to two university facilities, allowing for frequent measurement on up-to-date instrumentation. Pyrosequencing (SNP, CpG) Bisulfite sequencing is the use of bisulfite treatment of DNA to determine its pattern o…
News | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content News Recent news items can be viewed here: Farnaz Takhsha wins 2nd price thesis price competition 2015 The first price of € 1000 in the category of exact (bio)medical sciences was won by Yannick De Vlaeminck for his thesis entitled "Dissecting the bi…
News & Events | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content News & Events Stay in touch Subscribe to our newsletter On 3 April 2025, Katrien Schaubroeck will give a publicly accessible Spectrum lecture at the University of Antwerp entitled De groene dood: ecologisch denken over uitvaart (in Dutch). More information and r…
Equipment | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Equipment CDS uses a large variety of techniques situated in the field of proteomics, (epi)genomics and protein biochemistry. Here are a few examples of equipment in the CDS lab: Flash photolysis and stopped flow The reactivity of globins towards gaseo…
Events | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Events PhD Defences Structural analysis of the membrane-proximal venus flytrap domain (VFT2) of ESAG4 receptor-like adenylate cyclase from Trypanosoma brucei Public defence Desirée Oliveira Alves - Department Pharmaceutical Sciences Date 21 nov Struct…
CDS | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content CDS Cell Death Signaling Cell Death Signaling lab Cell Death Signaling lab prev 1 / 2 next Contact Cell Death Signaling (CDS) Show email address Campus Drie Eiken, Building S, 4th Floor / T, 1st floor Universiteitsplein 1 2610 Wilrijk (Flanders), Belgi…
Societal partners | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Societal partners These are the societal stakeholders represented in our societal advisory board: Funebra (National Federation of the Funeral Industries) Lieve Hiel (sector consultant) Uitvaartunie Vlaanderen (Flemish Union of Funeral Industries) FIAT-IFTA (Worl…
Research team | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Research team University of Antwerp Faculty of Law – research group Personal Rights and Property Rights Hanne Dielis Hanne is a doctoral researcher in health law at the University of Antwerp. During her studies, she focused on euthanasia, with a particular emp…
Death Care | University Fund | University of Antwerp
University Fund search menu search content Death Care What about the dead in times of climate crisis, pandemics, and multiculturalism? Cares for Tomorrow Everyone comes into contact with death sooner or later. This is why the funeral industry is fundamental to our society. Yet one question often rem…
Members | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Members Team leaders Prof. dr. Tom Vanden Berghe Prof. dr. Wim Vanden Berghe Prof. dr. Andy Wullaert Prof. dr. Xaveer Van Ostade Ass. Prof. Dr. Anja Verhulst Ass. Prof. Dr. Benjamin Vervaet Post-docs Dr. Claudina Perez Novo Dr. Geert Behetz Dr. Britt O…
Teams | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Teams Our Cell Death Signaling research group integrates following research lines: Ferroptosis Signaling - Tom Vanden Berghe The lab investigates mechanisms, diagnostics, and intervention strategies related to critical illnesses, brain injuries, kidney…
Juridical challenges | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Juridical challenges Work package 1 Background The legal research within the Death Care project focuses on the challenges concerning death care in a sustainable and super-diverse society. In our rapidly evolving society, preferences surrounding funerals have bec…
Research mission | Cell Death Signaling | University of Antwerp
Cell Death Signaling search menu search content Research mission The Cell Death Signaling lab studies molecular biological stress responses which affect cell viability (autophagy, nucleophagy), cell death (apoptosis, ferroptosis, pyroptosis), or senescence. The research cluster combines advanced mol…
Monthly book club | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Monthly book club For everyone interested in sustainable death care Our project facilitates a monthly online book club. We discuss a variety of books related to the themes of our project. Readings are suggested and chosen by participants themselves. This book cl…
Academic Advisory Board | Death care | University of Antwerp
Death care search menu search content Academic Advisory Board These are the members of our academic advisory board: Yvon van der Pijl I am an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. My work explores cross-cultural meanings of death, dying, and disposal across scales. I am…