On June 23th 2016 Steven Odongo obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Nanobody-based Immunoassay for Trypanosoma congolense Targeting Glycosomal Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphate Aldolase
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Magez
Op de Fellowship Ceremony donderdag 16 juni heeft de Vrije Universiteit Brussel de namen van dertig nieuwe Fellows bekendgemaakt. Het gaat om topmensen uit het bedrijfsleven, overheid of maatschappelijke organisaties. Daaronder drie Science Fellows: Jan Bogaerts, Patrick Roggemans en Els Torreele.
On June 15th 2016 Youssef El Darzi obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Human gut meta-omics data integration and visualization
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Daniël Charlier & Prof. Dr. Jeroen Raes
Joint PhD with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Nature paper by AMGC Sophie Verheyden, on evidence for one of the oldest human construction made by Neanderthals, in a deep cave in France, some 176,5 thousand years ago: "Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France". A view-only version of the paper
Vocatio Fellowship for David De Vleeschouwer, former AMGC member. On Wed. May 25, the VOCATIO foundation rewarded 15 young laureates from the humanities, sciences, arts, and medicine. Among them, our former PhD student David who received a 10.000 € grant to study the evolution of the Australian Monsoon over the last 6 million years. Portraits of the laureates appear this week in the popular Belgian magazines Knack and Le Vif.
In the 1970s and 80s one of Belgium’s most brilliant minds studied and worked at VUB. Jean Bourgain has spent, however, the largest part of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Valhalla for theorists. The institute plans to honour Bourgain for his contribution to the field of pure mathematics at a unique event.
On May 20th 2016 De Wael Mattias obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Just-in-Time Data Structures
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter & Prof. Dr. Jennifer B. Sartor
Every minute, hundreds of thousands of molecules are actively involved in biochemical processes in the human body. Currently, however, scientists can only detect 10,000 of these molecules with any level of precision. Chemist Gert Desmet from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has received a €2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to change that over the next five years.