Dorien Verdoodt senior researcher Research Dorien Verdoodt Research team Translational Neurosciences (TNW) Expertise Breeding and handling of transgenic animal models for hereditary hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. Performing auditory brainstem response and distortion oto-acoustic emission m…

Sarah Peeters predoc researcher FWO Research Sarah Peeters Research team Medicinal Chemistry (UAMC) Directed optimization of highly selective DPP9 inhibitors for chemical biology and translational research. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Dipeptidyl-peptidase 9 (DPP9) is a post-proline cleaving ser…

Ali Mohaghegh Toosi doctoral scholarship holder Research Ali Mohaghegh Toosi Research team Comparative Perinatal Development (CoPeD) Does biological sex determine the outcome of early life adverse events? What a leaky gut has to say? 01/10/2023 - 30/09/2027 Abstract The central objective of this pro…

Global Change Ecology search menu search content How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? How deep is the sleep of tree buds in winter? A more erratic sleep for deciduous trees than previously thought is discovered. A new study by Romain Garrigues and co-authors showed that while absence of win…

Miguel Hernández González predoc researcher FWO Research Miguel Hernández González Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Mercury exposure, nutritional stress and their combined effect on the susceptibility to a viral disease, physiology, and parental care behaviour: an experimental a…

Jolien Perneel predoc researcher FWO Research Jolien Perneel Research team VIB CMN - Applied and Translational Neurogenomics TMEM106B in vesicle trafficking and biology as shared disease modifying mechanism across multiple disorders. 01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025 Abstract Frontotemporal lobar degeneration…

Plants and Ecosystems search menu search content Exotic plants Humans create stepping stones for exotic plants All that is needed is some disturbance of the natural vegetation combined with a warmer environment (e.g. on a south-facing slope), an international team of ecologists states. The team (wit…

Johan Verbeeck Proof of Concept 2017 Adaptive transmission electron microscopy: development of a programmable phase plate (ADAPTEM) Adaptive optics, the technology to dynamically program the phase of optical waves has sparked an avalanche of scientific discoveries and innovations in light optics app…

Nele Brusselaers associate professor Research Nele Brusselaers Research team Global Health Institute (GHI) Expertise I am a clinical epidemiologist with as main research interests the long-term effects of commonly prescribed drugs such as antibiotics and gastric-acid suppressors, potentially through…

Margarida Florindo Espadinha senior researcher Research Margarida Florindo Espadinha Research team Medicinal Chemistry (UAMC) DPP9 degradation-induced pyroptosis for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (DPP9-TACDrug). 01/04/2023 - 31/03/2025 Abstract Dipeptidyl-peptidase 9 (DPP9) is a proline-select…

Applied Data Mining search menu search content News of Applied Data Mining Read a selection of news and blog posts. Yanou Ramon wins Best Paper Award at the Doctoral Day 27.10.2020 Explaining predictive models: the Evidence Counterfactual 12.06.2020 | Blogpost Yanou Ramon Data Science for Business i…

Ulrike Burki predoc researcher FWO Research Ulrike Burki Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) The plentiful, the pious and the poor. Images of Flanders in German translations of Flemish literature during the First World War (1914-1918). 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2…

Network on Migration and Global Mobility search menu search content The Migration Podcast — Season 4 Check out Season 4 of The Migration Podcast! Episode 12: Migrant child protection in Latin America & the Caribbean In this episode, Alexandrea Castro speaks with Pablo Ceriani about the changing mi…

Manrico Sebastiano postdoc researcher FWO Research Manrico Sebastiano Research team Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology Mercury exposure, nutritional stress and their combined effect on the susceptibility to a viral disease, physiology, and parental care behaviour: an experimental approach in a wild…

Lieselotte Van Bockstal principal research fellow Research Lieselotte Van Bockstal Research team Comparative Perinatal Development (CoPeD) Expertise translational research to study human gastro-intestinal diseases The hippocampus as key to study sex differences in the neurodevelopment of IUGR piglet…

Hans Prenen professor Research Hans Prenen Research team Center for Oncological Research (CORE) Development of an image-based multiparametric drug response signature to predict clinical therapy response in cancer patients from ex vivo tumoroid screenings. 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026 Abstract Precision o…

Cultures of Dance search menu search content Symposium "Dancing Diaspora: Exploring European Contemporary Dance through the Lens of Diaspora" (18 April 2024) Thursday 18 April 13:30 — 18:00, STUK Auditorium Language: English The symposium is free of charge but registration is required. Cultural St…

Occupation Stadscampus Last update: Monday 13 May 2024, 3.45 p.m. On Monday 13 May 2024 the group “UAntwerp for Palestine” started the occupation of the Agora on Stadscampus of the University of Antwerp. This action is a response to the violence currently happening in Gaza. The university is in …

Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen Cancer Research Day UAntwerp 6 October 2023 - 9:30 - CDE Building Q, D.Q.002 Cancer Research Day UAntwerp 6 October 2023 - 9:30 - CDE Building Q, D.Q.002 Technology in Oncology Registration is closed - if you still want to participate, email us! Location: Camp…

Sam Cosaert associate professor Research Sam Cosaert Research team Economics Expertise Research interests include consumer demand, revealed preference theory, family and labor economics, with aspects of behavioral economics. Household behavior and joint decision-making with a focus on gender inequal…

Centre of Expertise for Higher Education search menu search content A manageable group of students March 2024 Update on teaching tip 'A manageable group of students' from the book ‘50 teaching tips’ (ECHO, 2011) As a teacher, do you ever experience challenges in keeping students' attention? Are …

Erika Vlieghe associate professor Research Erika Vlieghe Research team Global Health Institute (GHI) The effect of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors on the gut microbiome and infection risk in early life. 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2028 Abstract Our gut microbiome is affected by many factors, and it se…

USOS search menu search content Debating Development 2024 Every Tuesday from 6.30 to 8.30 pm at R.002 - Stadscampus (8 October - 3 December) Next session - Social-ecological justice II: Lessons from the Port of Antwerp and Beyond Tuesday 22 October from 6.30 to 8.30 pm - Stadscampus Harbouring (in)j…

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…

Kevin Absillis professor Research Kevin Absillis Research team Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN) Expertise The history of the book in the Low Countries after 1800, in particular the historic of Dutch and Flemish literary publishing. Literature and nationalism, Flemish…