Functional Morphology search menu search content The seadragon's strike: cranial kinematics during feeding Promoter: Sam Van Wassenbergh Subject: Syngnathiform fishes, such as pipefish and seahorses and their relatives, depend on an extremely rapid dorsal rotation of their head to bring their mouth …

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the Citizens? Registration Kitchen scene, c. 1620, Peter Wtewael Kitchen scene, c.1794, Adriaan de Lelie Registration Registration is open! The registration process is handled by the STAM itself. Sp…

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the Citizens Venue Ghent, ca. 1534, anonymous City Museum STAM Venue The conference will take place in the Ghent City Museum STAM. Opened in 2010, the museum harbors a broad collection - displaying …

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the citizens? Programme Effects of Good Government in the countryside, c.1338-1339, Ambrogio Lorenzetti Harvesters, c.1565, Peter Bruegel the Elder Programme This programme might be subject to chang…

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the Citizens? Organisation & sponsors 'Juin': raking and mowing hay, c.1416, Brothers of Limbourg Plowing an alfalfa field by tractor, c.1920, Collier Organising Committee Tim Soens (University of A…

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the citizens? Urban land and landownership in past and present View on Antwerp's Port, c.1658, Jean-Baptist Bonnecroy Modern tractor ploughing, picture by STAM Ghent Conference 'Feeding the citizens…

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the Citizens? Visit Ghent View on Ghent, c.1610, Lucas Schnitzer Panorama Antwerp, c.1557, Frans Huys Accommodation As a major tourist city, Ghent offers a wide range of hotels and lodgings. In the …

Environmental and Rural History of Urbanized Societies search menu search content Conference: Feeding the Citizens? Contact Still life with fruit, c.1625-35, Frans Snyders Affiche-catalogue des semences potagères, c.18th C., maison Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co. Contact For all enquiries Cécile Bruyet St…

Tim Andries expert Publicaties Tim Andries Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous songbird Bron Dryad, 2025, Auteur(s) Tim Andries, Wendt Müller, Sam Van Wassenbergh Citatielink Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous songbird…

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Scaling effects on suction feeding performance left: Picture illustrating the large increase in size that takes place during the life of the catfish Clarias gariepinus. The arrow indicates the smallest individual used in our study.…

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Effects on lateral expansion during suction feeding The enlarged jaw muscles tightly cover the suspensoria, which are (especially in the hard-biting species) firmly connected to the neurocranium. Consequently, the jaw adductor hype…

Sam Van Wassenbergh hoofddocent Publicaties Sam Van Wassenbergh Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous songbird Bron Dryad, 2025, Auteur(s) Tim Andries, Wendt Müller, Sam Van Wassenbergh Citatielink Data supporting the paper 'An alternative pattern of head expan…

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Variation in sternohyoideus muscle morphology: implications for suction feeding One of the levels at which suction performance can be increased considerably, is by increasing the magnitude and/or speed of the depression of the hyoi…

Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content PhD Kerlijne Moorkens Maternal Metabolic Health and Fertility: acute and chronic effects on a western-type diet on oviductal and ovarian cells. A multi-omic approach. Dr. Kerlijne Moorkens, MSc Date: 21st June 2024 at 5pm. Location: B…

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Doctoral thesis work (2002-2006) As PhD-student at the University of Antwerp starting in 2002, I studied the consequences of the drastically increased size of the jaw muscles in different species of African air-breathing catfish (C…

Pim Boute postdoctoral scholarship hold. Research Pim Boute Research team Functional Morphology Research on aquatic locomotion and feeding. 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2026 Abstract During my one-year, personal Seal of Excellence postdoctoral fellowship (Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions) at the Laboratory of …

Jana De Ridder onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Jana De Ridder Data supporting the paper 'An alternative pattern of head expansion during feeding in cichlids' Bron figshare, 2025, Auteur(s) Jana De Ridder, Vincent Dujardin, Julia Camacho Garcia, Wilson Sawasawa, Peter Aerts, Hannes Svardal, Sam Va…

Anthony Herrel unpaid staff Research Anthony Herrel Research team Functional Morphology Analysis of shape-function relations in complex muscular-sceletal systems using computer modeling and measurement of mechanical stress and strain distributions. 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2012 Abstract Darwin's finches (…

Tim Andries expert Research Tim Andries Research team Functional Morphology Individual variation in feeding behavior and mechanics in songbirds. 01/10/2020 - 30/09/2024 Abstract Sequences of precisely controlled, fast, three-dimensional movements of the upper beak and lower beak are used by granivor…

Veterinary physiology and biochemistry search menu search content PhD Isabelle Gabriëls The use of zebrafish feeding trials for the safety assessment of genetically modified crops Isabelle Gabriëls, MSc, PhD Date: 6th June 2019, at 5 PM Location: Auditorium O5, Campus Drie Eiken Abstract In the EU…

Gül Gündüz Mengübaş onbezoldigd medewerker Publicaties Gül Gündüz Mengübaş Metaheuristics for assembly line feeding optimization and tow train routing in the automotive industry Bron Antwerpen, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics, 2025,xvi, 102 p. Auteur(s) Gül GündÅ

Sam Van Wassenbergh associate research professor Sam Van Wassenbergh Publications - updated 25/10/2025 To respect copyright laws, request permission from the authors by email before downloading PDFs. 2025 Andries, T., Müller, W. & Van Wassenbergh, S. (2025). Feeding performance, kinematics and skil…

Peter Aerts emeritus met opdracht Publicaties Peter Aerts Data supporting the paper 'An alternative pattern of head expansion during feeding in cichlids' Bron figshare, 2025, Auteur(s) Jana De Ridder, Vincent Dujardin, Julia Camacho Garcia, Wilson Sawasawa, Peter Aerts, Hannes Svardal, Sam Van Wasse…

Wendt Müller hoogleraar Publicaties Wendt Müller Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous songbird Bron Dryad, 2025, Auteur(s) Tim Andries, Wendt Müller, Sam Van Wassenbergh Citatielink Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous …

Leonard Dewaele Deep time, multi-proxy investigation of the locomotion and feeding adaptations of aquatic carnivorans Research Leonard Dewaele Research team Functional Morphology Expertise I am the lead researcher for the BELSPO FED-tWIN MEATLOAF project: the evolutionary shift of Meat-EATing mammal…