On December 15 2017 Julie Goossens obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Development of a Nanobody-based rapid antigen test to detect ac-tive Trypanosoma infections in livestock
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Stefan Magez
On December 15 2017 Laurine Burdorf obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Long distance electron transport by cable bacteria: global distribution and environmental impact
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Filip Meysman
On December 15 2017 Nele Aernouts obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Housing the social. Investigating the role of 'commoning' in the development of social housing initiatives
Promotors: Prof. Dr. ir. Arch. Michael Ryckewaert, Prof. Dr. Bas Van Heur & Prof. Arch. Benoit Mortiz
On December 6 2017 Brandán PEDRE PÉREZ obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Thiol switches in Corynebacterium glutamicum that fight off oxidative stress
Promotor: Prof. dr. Joris Messens
On November 24 2017 Egon Deyaert obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Unravelling and modulating the Roco protein activation cycle
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Wim Versées
On November 17 2017 Hannah Little obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
It's not all in your Mind: Modality Effects on the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bart De Boer
On November 9 2017 Sam De Craemer obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Trace elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in blood and urine as exposure biomarkers in the Flemish population
Promotoren: Prof. Dr. Martine Leermakers & Prof. Dr. Yue Gao
On November 3 2017 Heikki Rasilo obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Computational models of associative learning in the acquisition of speech imitation, acoustic word models and word-meaning mappings
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bart de Boer
On October 9 2017 Stijn Van Onsem obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Ponds in the human landscape - Biomonitoring, drivers and reproductive ecology of macrophytes in a peri-urban setting
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Triest
On October 6 2017 Sara Contreras Martos obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Structural and functional characterization of two intrinsically disordered regions of the multi-domain transcriptional co-activator CREB-binding protein (CBP)
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Peter Tompa