Meet our team. |
Principal investigator
Our Team
Jeffrey Aalders
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Laurens Léger
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Chloë Deelkens
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Former lab members
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
2020-2022
Name |
Project |
Lore Vermeir |
Effect of the dental pulp harvesting method and its cryopreservation on the characteristics of the human dental pulp stem cells and their odontoblastic differentiation potential |
Jasmine Beeckman |
Co-culturing stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts to investigate cell-matrix interactions in Marfan Syndrome |
Judith Van Wynsberghe |
Studying Marfan cardiomyopathy with Engineered Heart Tissue |
Valerie Goethals |
Characterization and differentiation of bovine embryonic stem cells in prospect of the development of cultured meat |
Franne Lingier |
Patronen van myocardiale microRNA dysregulatie bij erfelijke cardiomyopathieën: een systematische review |
Cyrille De Vilder De Keyser |
The diagnostic purposes of circulating microRNAs in the bloodstream in patients with cardiomyopathies: A systematic review |
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 |
Robbert Lerno, Luna Mikkelsen |
Defining maturation markers for human pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes |
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 |
Sezer Sari |
The Role and Position of alphaT-catenin in Ependymocytes |