Cofunding core facility - UGent NGS Core

Sequencing Expertise Centre (Life Sciences)

Characterization of extracellular RNA-signals and their role in antiviral immunity in insects

Cofunding core facility - Ghent Light Microscopy (GLiM)

Development and validation of an integrated lab-on-a-Chip

Empirical exploration of novel DNA probes for hybridization to tandem repeats

Fetal cell isolation and characterization for cell-based non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis

Fetal cell isolation and characterization for cell-based non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis.

Identification of adaptive mechanisms leading to reduced antibiotic susceptibility in bacterial biofilms using experimental evolution and machine learning approaches

Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) for forensic STR profiling.

Nanopore sequencing of complete pharmacogenes after CRISPR/Cas9 enrichment in tamoxifen and clopidogrel patients allowing enhanced haplotyping and continuous scale machine learning efficacy prediction.

PEA histone modification proteomics

PromethION: nanopore sequencer for high-throughput and long read high-fidelity DNA and RNA sequencing allowing fast decoding of (epi)genomes and (epi)transcriptomes

qPCR system for NGS library quality control, gene expression measurement, hybridization curve, and melting curve analysis

Artemisinin biosynthesis in Artemisia annua trichomes

Culture-dependent and independent anaysis of biofilm-associated microflora on endotracheal tubes and their role in ventilator-associated pneumonia

Extracellular vesicles from follicular fluid are key for successful development of fresh and vitrified equine oocytes

IsoFlux System: Isolation of rare cells from biological samples

Modular high-end mass spectrometer for ultrasensitive quantification and imaging of small organic molecules in cross-health research - MSsmall-XH

Research equipment: Ion Personal Genome Machine TM (PGM TM) Sequencer en Ion Proton TM Sequencer

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

Unraveling the role of the immune system in the development of exuberant granulation tissue in horse wounds

Unraveling the trichothecene degradation pathway for valorization in pre- and post-harvest remediation

Covid-Track: applying quantitative virology and single-cell genomics to unravel the virus-host interactions leading to severe immunopathologies in COVID-19 patients

Study of the interactions between the hepatitis E virus and its host