BOOSting excellence in environmental EPIgenetics

Cofunding core facility - M@UG-CF

Engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health

Enzyme biodiscovery pipeline optimisation via toolbox development

Partnership for the assessment of risks from chemicals

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.

Development of novel antimicrobials and antibiofilm agents from marine resources

Doctoral project Annabel Fee Mathiske

Doctoral project Dinh Nguyen

Doctoral project Jenevieve Hara

Doctoral project Mathilde Falcou-Préfol

Doctoral project Naina Goel

Doctoral project Yunmeng Li

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

Long-term effects of environmental change on invertebrates at the basis of marine food webs: A multigenerational, interspecies, interorder approach

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

Plastic pollution in a changing marine environment: Assessing the combined effects of plastic pollution and global change in aquatic organisms

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

Solutions for marine fouling and biofilms through harvesting nature's defences of non-mobile marine organisms

The influence of microscopic life (phytoplankton, bacteria, viruses) on the formation and stability of sea foam.

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

The role of micro- and nanoplastics in antibiotic resistance and horizontal gene transfer in the marine environment.

The use of AOPs in the environmental and human health risk assessment of natural toxins

Doctoral project Tara Grosemans

Effects of ocean warming on invertebrates at the basis of marine food webs: A multigenerational, interspecies, interorder approach

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

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

Assessment of the environmental and human health risks of the munition dumpsite “Paardenmarkt”.

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

Cofunding core facility - EMBRC+ Core Facility

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

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

European Research Infrastructure for Marine Bioprospecting

Exploring preventive health strategies: the role of coastal environments in the physical and cognitive well-being of older adults

GAME: "Genetic Approaches and cultivation protocols to unravel MEtabolite production of Porphyra spp. targeted towards human and plant health applications"

Marine biomolecules in sea spray aerosol: bio-discovery for human health

Policy Brief: Analysis of the link between microplastics, the environment and human health

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

Sea Spray Aerosol and It’s Human Health Effects

The blue economy: developing solutions for ocean and human health

The blue economy: developing solutions for ocean and human health

Towards a biology-based extrapolation in environmental risk assessment: development of a mechanistic framework to include (epi) genetic variation in the risk evaluation of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems

A MALDI-TOF/TOF MS instrument for (bio)polymer characterization and imaging.

Democratizing High-Throughput Next Generation Sequencing across different Life Science Fields: the AVITI Next Generation Sequencer.

Effects of ocean warming on invertebrates at the basis of marine food webs: A multigenerational, interspecies, interorder approach

Long-term effects of environmental change on invertebrates at the basis of marine food webs: A multigenerational, interspecies, interorder approach

Multi-color flow cytometry for applied biological research

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

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

Development of a mechanistic proof-of-concept to improve chemical toxicity evaluation for aquatic populations in a multi-stress context.

Interactive effects of insecticides and cyanobacterial stress in Daphnia pulex: Development of a predictive model using gene expression microarrays and support vector machines

Risk-benefit analysis of Ulva proteins: assessing their antidiabetic potential and heavy metal risk after gastrointestinal digestion