Meet our team. |
Principal investigator
Jolanda van Hengel
+32 (0)9 3324009 Jolanda.vanHengel@Ugent.be 
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Our Team
Jeffrey Aalders
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Laurens Léger
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Chloë Deelkens
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Marleen De Groote
Lab technician +32 (0)9 3323763 Marleen.DeGroote@Ugent.be |
Natasja Van den Vreken
Lab technician +32 (0)9 3323763 Natasja.VandenVreken@Ugent.be |
Former lab members
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Bieke Vanslembrouck
Defended PhD in 2019 Topic: Exploring the three dimensional organisation of the murine intercalated disc and unravelling the connection between the intercalated discs and the cytoskeleton of cardiac myocytes Current position: Postdoc in the group of Carolyn Larabell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Master students
2019-2021
Name |
Project |
Toon Callens |
Role of intercalated disc shape on wave propagation in models of cardiac tissue |
Lisa Dangreau |
Creating in vitro co-cultures with stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts |
Bram Eeraerts |
Optimizing fluorescence activated cells cell sorting protocols for stem cell cultures and their differentiation products |
Tina Goossens |
Intercalated disc remodeling in mouse models |
Bram Jacobs |
Impact of the oxygen concentration on human pluripotent stem cell culture and cardiac differentiation |
2018-2020
Name |
Project |
Kaija Smet |
Maturation of stem cell derived cardiomyocytes using polysaccharide matrices |
Tim Tuerlings |
3D co-culture of stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts using the liquid marble bioreactor |
Anabel Bekemans |
The effect of the pulp harvesting method and stem cell isolation method on the multipotency of human dental pulp stem cells and their odontogenic differentiation potential |