Artisanal Seaweed Aquaculture in Kenya’s Blue Space: Nexus of Food Security, Nutrition, Health, Climate Change, and Livelihoods

Developing and optimising a cost- and time-effective method for the detection and identification of microplastics in the marine environment.

Doctoral project David Deruytter

Doctoral project Emmanuel Van Acker

Doctoral project Jan Baert

Doctoral project Karel Viaene

Doctoral project Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe

Doctoral project Maarten De Rijcke

Doctoral project Roel Evens

Doctoral project Simon Hernandez Lucas

Doctoral project Tara Grosemans

Doctoral project Tina Van Regenmortel

The Influence of Micro- and Nanoplastics on Human Health: Exploring Environmentally Relevant Scenarios with In Vitro Human Cell Lines.

Combined impacts of plastic pollution, from bio-based and petroleum-based polymers, and global warming on the population dynamics of key organisms of coastal and marine ecosystems.

Doctoral project Annabel Fee Mathiske

Doctoral project Cecília Manuela Silva Pereira

Doctoral project Charlotte Nys

Doctoral project Dimitri Van de Perre

Doctoral project Dinh Nguyen

Doctoral project Gabriel Orellana Mancilla

Doctoral project Gert Everaert

Doctoral project Ivana Trenti

Doctoral project Jenevieve Hara

Doctoral project Jennifer Hochmuth

Doctoral project Katrien Töpke

Doctoral project Marcello Santoni

Doctoral project Mathilde Falcou-Préfol

Doctoral project Michiel Van Melkebeke

Doctoral project Tina Van Regenmortel

Environmental and human health effects of marine toxins under increasing anthropogenic pressure

Oceans & Human Health: the added value of biosensors & wearable technology in the coastal exposome

Public health risks of Microplastics and trace metals in drinking water supply system components in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Risk assessment of nanoplastics on marine copepods

Risk assessment of the environmental impact of offshore infrastructure

Temporal effects of chemical and physical stressors on marine zooplankton: a molecular approach

The plastic habitats and their function as marine micro-ecosystems for biomolecule production by micro-algae

Understanding plankton community responses to changing environmental conditions and extreme climatic events using high-throughput observation approaches

Biodiversity and community composition in a stressed and more variable ocean.

Blue BALANCE: Sustainable Economic Development of Flemish Coastal Areas For All

BLUEGent

Cofunding core facility - M@UG-CF

Development of a platform and toolkit for understanding interactions between nanoparticles and the living world

Dynamics of the stem diameter variation as a diagnostic tool for the fundamental analysis of the plant-water relations and the carbon metabolism of woody plants

Environmental (and human health) risk approach as an integrated framework to study the occurrence and effects of microplastics in the marine environment - Ecologiclas aspect of microplastics

Environmental technology and renewable energy

Evaluation of the flatworm Macrostomum lignano as an in vivo epigenetic model system

Evolutionary ecotoxicology with Daphnia: genomic, transcriptomic and physiological mechanisms of tolerance and adaptation to cadmium and cyanobacterial stress

Importance of abiotic environmental factors on fitness and metal sensitivity of freshwater organisms

Marine ecosystem productivity in a gradient of toxic stress and the implications for higher trophic levels

Microplastic pollution in the marine environment

Occurrence and effects of micro-plastics in the marine environment

personnel support consortium Marine @ Ugent GOBlue

PLUXIN - Plastic Flux for Innovation and Business Opportunities in Flanders

Pollution tolerance of Daphnia magna populations: evolutionary potential and interaction with natural stressors from an ecotoxicological, genomic and ecological perspective.

Quantifying the sensitivity of aquatic communities in lakes to anthropogenic chemicals and environmental fluctuations throughout history (2000 BC to present)

Request for research equipment: Automatisation equipment for a Metrohm 797 VA Computrace Voltammetry System and Shimadzu L-CPH TOC (Total Organic Carbon) analyser with high salt-sample comustion tube kit

STRESS FLEA-B: How to live in a mosaic of stressors - an ecological genomics approach on the water flea Daphnia

Support for recording half-time liaison function at VLIZ

The blue economy: developing solutions for ocean and human health

The internal distribution and physiological effects of binary metal mixtures at the chameleon shrimp (Americamysis bahia)

The relationships between biodiversity and pesticides in metacommunities.

Tissue-specific mechanisms of metal accumulation and toxicity in Daphnia magna realistic from an ecological perspective, the importance of mixture toxicity, biotic antagonists and interspecies variability.

Towards ecological risk assessment of nanoplastics: dynamic considerations

Towards more ecologically realistic assessment of chemicals in the environment

Unlocking the potential of bioactive metabolites in Red Algae (Rhodophyta): addressing key challenges through integration and innovation of genomic and other molecular methods

Advanced oxidation technology for the removal of pharmaceuticals in environmental waters

Combined quantitative chemical and morphological imiaging in 3D at a nanoscopic level

Combined X-Ray Fluorescence and Absorption CT (XRF-CT) imager for non-destructive 3D elemental/structural analysis on the microscopic scale.

Ecosystem Services (SUMES): Towards a quantitative holistic sustainability impact assessment tool

Effect assessment of ingested small microplastics and nanoplastics for human health through in vitro experiments and QSAR modelling

Energy budgets in copepod population modelling – How much model complexity do we really need in environmental risk assessment?

Engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health

ESFRI project LIFEWATCH

Field-flow fractionation (FFF) system for combination with high-end ICP-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).

integrated science approach to Risk and Management

Priority environmental contaminants in seafood: safety assessment, impact and public perception

SeaCrops: technical and economical feasibility of land-based seaweed aquaculture

Stimulated emission depletion microscopy (STED): Nanoscopy for innovative research in the life sciences

The Flemish contribution to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC)

The Flemish contribution to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC)

Ultrafast-scanning tandem ICP-mass spectrometer for interference-free and highly-sensitive transient signal monitoring