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Researcher
Wout Boerjan
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Promotor-spokesperson
01 January 2021 → 31 December 2024
Next generation lignocellulosics biorefinery concepts and implementation (Next-BIOREF)
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2025 → 31 December 2028
Unraveling biosynthetic gene clusters: a genomics approach to specialized metabolism in poplar
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
As
Administrative supervisor
14 October 2020 → 12 May 2025
CRISPR-based Lignin Engineering in Maize and Poplar for Sustainable Bio-Refinery solutions
Doctoral researcher: Chantal Anders
28 August 2023 → 21 September 2025
Discovery of the biological role of a gene cluster involved in aromatic compound biosynthesis in plants.
Doctoral researcher: Anran Liu
20 October 2014 → 23 September 2018
Doctoral project Andreas Pallidis
Doctoral researcher: Andreas Pallidis
20 September 2013 → 08 June 2018
Doctoral project Barbara De Meester
Doctoral researcher: Barbara De Meester
18 December 2017 → 24 September 2023
Doctoral project Bárbara Loreto Madariaga Calderón
Doctoral researcher: Bárbara Loreto Madariaga Calderón
12 January 2009 → 22 September 2013
Doctoral project Brecht Demedts
Doctoral researcher: Brecht Demedts
02 September 2015 → 23 September 2018
Doctoral project Carol Seetso
Doctoral researcher: Carol Seetso
25 August 2011 → 28 June 2017
Doctoral project Dorien Van de Wouwer
Doctoral researcher: Dorien Van de Wouwer
17 September 2015 → 27 August 2020
Doctoral project Jin Li
Doctoral researcher: Jin Li
18 August 2015 → 23 February 2021
Doctoral project Lennart Hoengenaert
Doctoral researcher: Lennart Hoengenaert
08 October 2014 → 26 February 2019
Doctoral project Lisanne de Vries
Doctoral researcher: Lisanne de Vries
29 November 2010 → 07 September 2016
Doctoral project Lisa Sundin
Doctoral researcher: Lisa Sundin
01 July 2015 → 10 December 2019
Doctoral project Marina de Lyra Soriano Saleme
Doctoral researcher: Marina de Lyra Soriano Saleme
18 January 2021 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Nette De Ridder
Doctoral researcher: Nette De Ridder
30 September 2009 → 30 April 2015
Doctoral project Oana Dima
Doctoral researcher: Oana Dima
31 January 2012 → 01 July 2016
Doctoral project Paula Oyarce Sgro
Doctoral researcher: Paula Oyarce Sgro
03 December 2007 → 12 June 2013
Doctoral project Rebecca Van Acker
Doctoral researcher: Rebecca Van Acker
09 January 2020 → 08 May 2020
Doctoral project Sandrien Desmet
Doctoral researcher: Sandrien Desmet
04 June 2015 → 07 November 2016
Doctoral project Veronique Storme
Doctoral researcher: Veronique Storme
05 September 2011 → 01 December 2016
Doctoral project Ward Steenackers
Doctoral researcher: Ward Steenackers
18 September 2015 → 20 April 2020
Doctoral project Xinyu Liu
Doctoral researcher: Xinyu Liu
04 September 2017 → 20 December 2022
Exploring the unknown: new insights in the specialized metabolism of Arabidopsis and poplar
Doctoral researcher: Marlies Brouckaert
11 March 2019 → 29 September 2023
From lab to field: improving the biomass processability of maize using genome editing.
Doctoral researcher: Yasmine Vanhevel
27 September 2018 → 10 March 2023
Genetic approaches to improve lignocellulosic biomass yield and processing efficiency in Arabidopsis and poplar
Doctoral researcher: Marlies Wouters
10 January 2022 → 21 September 2025
Improving silage maize digestibility by gene editing.
Doctoral researcher: Astrid De Moor
28 October 2021 → 21 September 2025
Large-scale identification of metabolite structures in the biomass crop poplar
Doctoral researcher: Emma Bonné
As
PhD Supervisor
25 November 2019 → 22 November 2024
Discovery and Metabolic Engineering of the Phenylpropanoid Pathway in Arabidopsis and Physcomitrium
Doctoral researcher: Caroline Van Beirs
20 February 2019 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Ans Van der Vaet
Doctoral researcher: Ans Van der Vaet
18 September 2013 → 29 August 2018
Doctoral project Sander Corneillie
Doctoral researcher: Sander Corneillie
22 September 2016 → 22 April 2022
Exploring the functions of the phenylpropanoid pathway in plant development
Doctoral researcher: Ilias El Houari
08 September 2022 → 21 September 2025
Functional characterization of NIC: a new player in the phenylpropanoid metabolic network
Doctoral researcher: Congwei Xie
15 December 2017 → 20 May 2022
Investigating the bioactivity of phenylpropanoid derivatives
Doctoral researcher: Klaas Witvrouw
07 January 2019 → 25 August 2022
The Metabolic Regulations of Soybean and Arabidopsis Seeds to Deterioration
Doctoral researcher: Juncai Deng
As
Promotor
01 March 2020 → 30 June 2024
Advanced Liquid Biofuels for advaced engine concepts enabled by advanced wood breeding and catalysis
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 October 2020 → 31 March 2026
ADV_BIO: Technological innovation in the production of advanced biofuels applicable to the Belgian territory for road and air transport and techno-economic and environmental analyses
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
Bio-energy crops are the cornerstone of the bio-based economy
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 April 2015 → 31 March 2019
Biorefinery of entire plant biomass to aromatics
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 May 2010 → 30 April 2017
Biotechnology for a sustainable economy (Bio-Economy)
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2016
Caffeoyl SHIKIMATE esterase: a new gene into the lignin biosynthesis
Fellow: Ward Steenackers
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
16 February 2015 → 31 October 2019
Characterisation of genes involved in phenylpropanoid and lignin biosynthesis: improving cell wall composition for the biorefinery
Fellow: Xinyu Liu
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2011 → 30 June 2016
Characterisation of genes potentially involved in phenylpropanoid and lignin biosynthesis: towards improving cell walls foor biofuels.
Fellow: Lisa Sundin
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2023
Developing transgene-free genome-engineered poplars to enabling field applications for the biobased economy.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2019 → 31 March 2023
Exploring and broadening the valorization potential of ugt72e-mediated growth restoration of low-lignin plants
Fellow: Marlies Wouters
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 June 2015 → 31 May 2017
From the lab to the field: the translation of fundamental bioenergy research from a model plant to the crops poplar and maize requires upscaling of the equipment necessary for analysis of biomass properties
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Genetic improvement of the processing efficiency of plant biomass
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2022 → 30 September 2025
Investigating O-methyltransferases potentially involved in lignin biosynthesis in maize
Fellow: Dyoni Oliveira
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
Lignin engineering to improve lignocellulosic biomass processing efficiency
Fellow: Nette De Ridder
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 February 2017 → 30 November 2022
MSsmall: mass spectrometry for small organic molecules
Funding: Ghent University funding
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Optimailsatie of ligninesamaenstelling -and amount poplar for biorefinery
Fellow: Lisanne de Vries
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Optimisation of poplar for a bio-based economy
Fellow: Marlies Brouckaert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Optimisation of the lignin composition of poplar to improve biomass processing in favor of a bio-based economy.
Fellow: Lennart Hoengenaert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2014 → 15 April 2018
OPTIMIZATION OF POPLAR FOR THE BIO-BASED ECONOMY THROUGH TISSUE–SPECIFIC LIGNIFICATION AND THE INCORPORATION OF ALTERNATIVE LIGNIN MONOMERS
Fellow: Barbara De Meester
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017
Pathway discovery in ferulic acid metabolism with relevance to lignin biosynthesis
Fellow: Ruben Vanholme
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019
Synthesis of benzodiocane ligin for applications in the biorefinery
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Systematic identification of aromatic metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways of poplar for the bio refinery.
Fellow: Sandrien Desmet
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2015
The bacterial populations associated with Populus tremula x alba wild type and 2 lines modified for lignin amount: genotypic and phenotypic characterisation and their potential to increase biomass.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 September 2021 → 30 September 2022
Unraveling the function of an O-methyltransferase potentially involved in lignin biosynthesis in maize
Fellow: Dyoni Oliveira
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Unraveling the function of new O-methyltransferases in phenylpropanoid metabolism
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 December 2008 → 30 May 2014
UPLC-Q-TOF MS system
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
What is the role of PCBER and DIRIGENT in wood formation in poplar?
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
As
Copromotor
01 May 2014 → 30 April 2018
BIOLEUM: Fuels and Chemicals by fast pyrolysis of biomass
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 November 2019 → 31 October 2024
Exploring the physiological functions of the endogenous plant growth regulator cis-cinnamic acid
Fellow: Caroline Van Beirs
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2022 → 30 September 2026
Functional characterization of NIC: a new player in the phenylpropanoid metabolic network
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2024 → 28 February 2025
Positioning lignin as a central component in plant development.
Fellow: Ilias El Houari
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Unraveling the mode of action of the natural growth-promoting phenylpropanoid cis-cinnamic acid
Fellow: Ilias El Houari
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)