PhD students

NAME
YEAR
RESEARCH TOPIC
Annelot Baert​
2012-2017​
From human genetics to radiobiology: in vitro radiosensitivity in individuals with a germline defect in DNA damage response genes
​ Flavia Zita Francies
2015-2018
​​Chromosomal radiosensitivity and instability of triple negative and/or young breast cancer and Fanconi anemia patients in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Jeroen Vierstraete
2014-2020
​Zebrafish as a model to study DNA repair and developmental defects following loss of BRCA2 or ATM
Greet Wieme
2016-2020
Liquid biopsies in pancreatic cancer
Lynn Backers
2018-2023
Primary immunodeficiencies and DNA damage
Charlotte Fieuws
2018-2024
Fishing for Personalized Ovarian Cancer therapy
Mattias Van Heetvelde
2013-2019
Second hits in BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated breast and ovarian cancer - connecting coding to non-coding mechanisms of inactivation

Exchange students

NAME
YEAR
INSTITUTE
RESEARCH TOPIC​
Carolina Vélazquez (PhD)
2017-2018
University of Valladolid, Spain
Evaluation of DNA repair mechanisms in Zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9: harmonizing Genetics and Disease Model in Cancer Research
Ada Esteban Sánchez (PhD)
2023
San Carlos Clinical Hospital - Lab Dr. Miguel de la Hoya
Value

Master students (since 2014)

NAME
YEAR
STUDY PROGRAM
RESEARCH TOPIC
Lisa Baert
2014
​​Bioscience Engineering
Moleculair onderzoek in het kader van erfelijke borstkanker:evaluatie van de rol van ATM en kwantificatie van transcripten in BRCA1​
Heidi Vandenhaute
2014
​​Bioscience Engineering
Moleculair onderzoek in het kader van erfelijke borstkanker
​Desirée Beyens
2014
Industrial Sciences: Biochemistry
​Evaluatie van de prevalentie van ATM germinale mutaties in families met mannelijke borstkanker en detectie van varianten in niet-coderende regio’s van het BRCA1/2 gen
Aurelie Giot
2015
​Bio-engineer​
​Moleculair onderzoek van DNA repair genen in een patiënt met Bloom-like fenotype en in patiënten met een vermoedelijke erfelijke predispositie voor borstkanker
​Eline Meireson
2015
​Biomedical Sciences
​Moleculair onderzoek in een familie met autosomaal dominant polycytische nierziekte
Jasmien Van Erdeghem
​2015
​Biomedical Sciences
​Confidential
Bram Verstraete
2016
​Bioscience Engineering
​​Confidential
Liesbeth Claeys
2016
​​​Biomedical Sciences
Functionele studie van potentieel oncogene miRNA's in erfelijke borstkanker
Nathalie Peeters
​2016
​Biomedical Sciences
​​The use of zebrafish as a model to analyze the pathogenicity of genetic variants in BRCA2
​Karen Allart
2017
Biomedical Sciences
Functionele studie van niet-coderende RNAs in borstkanker
Magali Buys
​2017
​Bioscience Engineering
Confidential
​​Karen van Lint
​​​2017
​Bio-engineer
​Develop an in vivo functional assay to determinate the pathogenicity of missense variants in breast cancer genes
​Guus Desloover
​​2017
Industrial Sciences: Biochemistry
​​Study of DNA repair pathways in BRCA2 and ATM deficient fish
​​Coralie Wojciulewitsch
​​2018
​Bio-engineer
​Heading towards an in vivo functional assay for missense variants in breast cancer genes: developing functional readouts in the zebrafish model organism
​Jolien De Waele
​2018
​Biomedical Sciences
​​​The use of zebrafish as a model to analyze the pathogenicity of variants in breast cancer genes
Delfien Maetens
​2018
​​​​Biomedical Sciences​
​​Identification of germline mutations in familial pancreatic cancer patients and development of an accurate sequencing method for detection of somatic mutations in liquid biopsies of pancreatic cancer patients
​​Arno Van de Voorde
​2019
​​Biomedical Sciences​
​Pancreatic cancer: Genetic predisposition and liquid biopsies for detection and therapy monitoring
​​​Lies Van Der Steen
​2019
​Biomedical Sciences
​​​The use of zebrafish as a model to analyse the pathogenic effect of variants in breast cancer genes
​Lore Dobbelaere
2020
​Biomedical Sciences
Development of pancreatic cancer zebrafish xenografts for prediction individual ​
​Lore Desmet
2020
Biomedical Sciences
​Pancreatic cancer : genetic predisposition & liquid biopsis
Elyne de Neef
2021
​Biomedical Sciences
Fishing for personalized treatment of pancreatic cancer patients using zebrafish xenographts
Sarah Otte
2021
Biomedical Sciences
Search for genetic defects in DNA damage response genes in patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PIDs) prone to develop cancer
​Lisa Faingnaert
2021
Medicine
​Search for novel candidate genetic defects in PID patients
Zineb Kamkam
2021
​Biomedical Sciences
​Prevalence of double somatic mismatch repair gene inactivation in carcinoma with Lynch characteristics but without germline mutations​
​Frauke Boutte
2022
​​Biomedical Sciences
​Biomedical Sciences Comparison of synergy between chemotherapeutic agents and PARP inhibitors in BRCA1 deficient and wildtype ovarian cancer cells using a zebrafish xenograft platform
​Robbe Decloedt
2022
​​Biomedical Sciences
​Search for genetic defects in DNA damage response genes in patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (PIDs) prone to develop cancer
Merel Flies
2022
​​Biomedical Sciences
Isolation and characterization of circulating tumor cells in liquid biopsies of patients with locally advanced and borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Marjolein Vertraete
2022
​​Biomedical Sciences
Implementation of polygenic risk scores in routine diagnostics to improve breast cancer risk assessment
Jonas Dahnoun
2023
​​Biomedical Sciences
Liquid biopsies to predict surgical resectability in pancratic cancer
Kobe Outtier
2023
​​Biomedical Sciences
BRCA2 VUS evaluation using CRISPR in zebrafish

Bachelor students (since 2016)

NAME
YEAR
​STUDY PROGRAM
​RESEARCH TOPIC
Bram Parton
2016
FBT
Moleculaire analyse van RECQL en kanker susceptibiliteitsgenen in families met een sterke predispositie voor borst- en ovariumkanker
Jochen Dewitte
2017
FBT
​Optimalisatie en validatie van targeted NGS als diagnostische test voor Hemochromatose en Homocystinuria
Febe Windels
​2019
​FBT
​Validatie van nieuwe combinatie therapiën in vitro en in vivo voor behandeling van eierstokkanker.
​Hélène Verhaege
​2019
​FBT
/
​Pepijn Libbrecht
2020
MLT
/
Sebastiaan De Cooman
2020
FBT
De invloed van Olaparib op BRCAwt ovariumkankercellijnen SKOV3 en A2780 getest in vitro en in vivo met zebravis xenograft
​Alice Goethals
2021
FBT
​Implementatie van digitale Multiplex Ligatie-afhankelijke Probe Amplificatie in een diagnostische setting
Julie Van Tulden
2022
FBT
Optimalisatie van variantdetectie in tumorsupressorgenen met behulp van hybridisatie- gebaseerde NGS
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