Program NSABS 2018

23rd National Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences (organized by VUB and ULB)

08:30 Registration and welcoming coffee (N. Mandela Room)

09:10 Opening conference (Aula QA)

09:25

Plenary I (Aula QA)

Albert Van den Berg (UTwente, NL)

“From Lab on a Chip to Organs on Chip”

Parallel sessions 1

Aula QB Aula QC Aula QD

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Biomathematics Environment I

10:10 O1 O11 O21

10:30 O2 O12 O22

10:50 O3 O13 O23

11:10 Coffee break (N. Mandela Room)

Parallel sessions 2

Aula QB Aula QC Aula QD

Agriculture and Food Technology I

Human Health I Key-enabling Technologies

11:35 Keynote I

David Cannella (ULB)

Keynote II Tim Stakenborg (IMEC)

Keynote III Stéphanie Descroix (Institut Curie, FR)

12:05 O4 O14 O24

12:25 O5 O15 O25

12:45 O6 O16 O26

13:05 Lunch and poster session 1 (N. Mandela Room)

14:05

Plenary II (Aula QA)

Lucia Smit (Braingain)

"How to manage your career as a PhD: challenges and opportunities"

Parallel sessions 3

Aula QB Aula QC Aula QD

Agriculture and Food Technology II

Human Health II Environment II

14:40 O7 O17 O27

15:00 O8 O18 O28

15:20 O9 O19 O29

15:40 O10 O20 O30

16:00 Coffee break and poster session 2 (N. Mandela Room)

17:00 Plenary III (Aula QA)

Frédéric van Gansberghe (Galactic sa/nv)

“And now, what’s next ?”

17:30 Closing remarks and awards (Aula QA)

17:45 Networking reception (N. Mandela Room)

Oral presentations parallel sessions (speaker, institution and title presentation)

Plenary

I. Albert Van den Berg (UTwente, Nl). From Lab on a Chip to Organs on Chip.

chair: Wim De Malsche (VUB)

II. Lucia Smit (Braingain). How to manage your career as a PhD: challenges and opportunities.

chair: Kris Pauwels (VUB)

III. Frédéric van Gansberghe (Galactic sa/nv). And now, what’s next?

chair: Benoit Scheid (ULB)

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

chair: Julien Cousin-Saint-Remi (VUB)

O1. Pierre Gelin (VUB). Use of acoustics in microfluidic reactors.

O2. Sander Stroobants (VUB). A novel device for studying nucleation of crystals and aggregates in controlled shear flow.

O3. Hennie Valkenier (ULB). Crossing the border: organic molecules transport chloride across lipid bilayers.

Agriculture and Food Technology I

chair: Christian Hermans (ULB)

Keynote I. David Cannella (ULB). Light powered enzymatic degradation of lignocellulose: a new photo-bio-catalysis for fuels and chemicals.

O4. Julie Vanderstraeten (UGent). Designer cellulosomics for a customized conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to valuable bulk and fine chemicals.

O5. Kamal Belhaj (University Mohammed 1st, Morocco). The effect of tow traditional Moroccan's cooking methods on Omega-6/omega-3 and fatty acids hypo/hypercholesterolemic ratios of Beni-Guil lamb meat breeding in north east of Morocco.

O6. Ilse Vanhoutte (UGent). Microbial detoxification of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol.

Agriculture and Food Technology II

chair: Barbara De Conink (KUL)

O7. Elien Lemmens (KUL). The impact of controlled steeping and germination of wheat on hydrolysis of phytate and arabinoxylan and on mineral bio-accessibility.

O8. Inga Tarasenko (UCL). The immediate response of tomato and rice to tephra deposition: an experimental study.

O9. Marie Vandermies (ULg). Catabolic selectable marker eases genome editing in Yarrowia lipolytica.

O10. Ali S. Doost (UGent). Fabrication of thymol nano-emulsions as a potential natural antioxidant.

Biomathematics

chair: Dominique Maes (VUB)

O11. Mauricio Macossay Castillo (VUB). Protein intrinsic disorder: a double-edged sword?

O12. Thomas Schalck (KUL). Identification of causal mutations conferring high-ethanol tolerance in Escherichia coli.

O13. Aurore Woller (ULB). Metabolic syndrome due to conflicts between light and food: a story of twisted clocks.

Human Health I

chair: Mariya Petrova (KUL)

Keynote II. Tim Stakenborg (IMEC). New Developments in Silicon Nanotechnology for Healthcare Applications.

O14. Xenia Geeraerts (VUB). The impact of lactate on the metabolic phenotype of tumor-associated macrophages.

O15. Gaétan Kalala (ULg). Effect of a diet rich in prebiotic fibers of inulin type and behavior on intestinal health in obese patients in an human in vitro fermentation patterns

O16. Pieter De Bruyn (VUB). Biophysical characterization of a three-component toxin-antitoxin module from the pathogenic bacterium Escherichia coli O157.

Human Health II

chair: Kris Pauwels (VUB)

O17. Hans Gerstmans (UGent). High throughput generation of designer enzybiotics against Acinetobacter baumannii.

O18. Robert Adamu Shey (ULB). Prediction and validation of the structural features of Ov-58GPCR as an immunodominant antigen of Onchocerca volvulus: implications in onchocerciasis control efforts.

O19. Frédéric Goormaghtigh (ULB). Single-Cell imaging of bacterial persisters.

O20. Andrey Kossarev (KUL). Shuttle vector system for improved pestiviral reverse genetics.

Environment I

chair: Chris Callewaert (UGent)

O21. Steve Huysman (UGent). UHPLC-HRMS based targeted and untargeted screening of plasticizers in the marine environment.

O22. Rosanne Reitsema (UA). Effects of climate change on macrophyte growth, biomass allocation, physiology and nutrient stoichiometry.

O23. Heleen Deroo (UGent). Processes of CH4 emission in paddy soil under water-saving irrigation management.

Key-enabling Technologies

chair: Benoit Scheid (ULB)

Keynote III. Stéphanie Descroix (Institut Curie, FR). Microfluidics for biomimetism : from 3D co-culture to gut on chip.

O24. Pauline Herpels (KUL). Photoreactive crosslinking reveals novel direct interaction partners of the persister regulator OBG.

O25. Shunta Futagami (VUB). The Effect of the Layer Thickness on the Performance of Porous Layered Radially Elongated Pillar Allay Columns.

O26. Marie Versaevel (UMons). MatrXcell: improving cell culture assays with tunable hydrogel rigidities.

Environment II

chair: Jelle Hofman (UA)

O27. Valérie Van Eesbeeck (SCK-CEN/UGent). Assessing the microbiological diversity in the cooling waters of a nuclear research reactor.

O28. Vere Leybaert (KUL). Quantifying precipitation errors via soil moisture data assimilation.

O29. Francis Vanryckeghem (UGent). Screening of the Belgian Part of the North Sea towards emerging organic micropollutants – comparison of two SPE-techniques prior to UHPLC-Orbitrap-HRMS analysis.

O30. Myrsini Sakarika (UA). Bridging resource recovery to reuse: microbes as next-generation fertilizer.

Poster presentations (speaker, institution and title presentation)

Uneven numbers – Poster Session 1 Even numbers – Poster Session 2

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

P1. Nathaniel Berneman (VUB). Nano-Precision Construction Engineering at the 1-Micron Scale: New Hierarchical Materials and New Applications.

P2. Agata Kryj (VUB). Development of novel column support structures in microchips for electrochromatographic separations.

P3. Martyna Baca (VUB). Achieving a peak capacity of 1500 using an 8m long chromatographic chip.

P4. Benoit Thienpont (VUB). Colorful microspheres made of crystallized nanospheres in a polymer matrix.

P5. Ilse De Leersnyder (UGent). The influence of media components on the stability and toxicity of silver nanomaterials.

P6. Thomas Virdis (VUB). Non-Ideality in The Adsorption Of Ethanol/Ethyl Acetate/Water Mixtures On ZIF-8 Metal Organic Framework.

P7. José Luís Dores-Sousa (VUB). Mixed-mode retention mechanisms and selectivity of reversed-phase/weak-anion-exchange columns in liquid chromatography.

P8. Christina Tiflidis (VUB). Electrochemical Study of ITO as a Working Electrode for a Transparent Chip.

P9. José Luís Dores-Sousa (VUB). Prototyping of microfluidic thermoplastic chips for high-performance liquid-chromatography.

P10. Atiruj Theppawong (UGent). Synthesis, Biology and Structure-Activity Relationships of Novel β-enaminone-, aza-aromatic- and thiazepane-based Curcuminoids.

Agriculture and Food Technology

P11. Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez (EEZ – CSIC, Spain). Flavonoids synthetic pathway enzymes as biomarkers for the study of biochemical and physiological changes occurring during narrow-leafed lupin seed germination and seedling development.

P12. Oyakhilomen Oyinbo (KUL). Maize Farmers’ Preferences for Site-specific Extension Service Delivery in Nigeria: Insights from a Choice Experiment.

P13. Bracke Jolien (UGent). Nondestructive optical crop sensing to monitor nitrogen content in woody ornamentals.

P14. Ali Sedaghat Doost (UGent). Formulation of novel biopolymer nanoparticles for targeted delivery of bioactive compounds.

P15. Claire Chigwedere (KUL). Influence of storage on the cooking quality of Canadian wonder common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris): insight into mechanism of softening and evolution of volatile compounds.

P16. Wim Geeraerts (VUB). Lactic acid bacteria species diversity on a selection of cooked meat products in the Belgian retail.

P17. Vincent Greffe (KUL). Improving the shelf life of rhizobia inoculants: a pangenomics approach investigating stress-resistance in Sinorhizobium meliloti.

P18. Victor Moreto (KUL). Calibration of a sugarcane cultivar in aquacrop model.

P19. Florent Audrit (ULB). Effect of the oxidative activity of laccase on food products.

P20. Mareme Niang (CERAAS, Sénégal). Germination responses to drought stress amongst baobabs (Adansonia digitata L) in Senegal.

P21. Els Debonne (UGent). Assessment of the antifungal preservation potential of natural water or oil soluble compounds in both in-vitro and bread baking trials.

P22. Catherine Mermans (UGent). A G326E substitution in the glutamate-gated chloride channel 3 (GluCl3) of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae abolishes the agonistic activity of macrocyclic lactones.

P23. Niels Langenaeken (KUL). Contribution of small and large barley starch granules to maltose production during mashing.

P24. Willy Irakoze (UCL). Comparative effects of chloride and sulfate salinities on two contrasting rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) at the seedling stage.

P25. Laura De Mets (UGent). Crossing borders to mitigate mycotoxins: where microbiology, poly-omics and crop protection meet.

P26. Emiel Van Reckem (VUB). The influence of processing conditions on the community dynamics of coagulase-negative staphylococci during meat fermentation.

P27. Marko Verce (VUB). The composition and functional potential of water kefir fermentation microbiota as revealed through shotgun metagenomics.

P28. Wannes Van Beeck (UA). Fermented carrots: A novel food matrix for probiotic interventions.

P29. Louise Vermote (VUB). Cheese brines harbour both halophilic/halotolerant and cheese ingredient-associated microorganisms.

P30. Bianca Drepper (KUL). New weather related insurance models for the Flemish hard fruit sector.

P31. Savio Rodrigues (KUL). Hairy Root Disease: Unravelling the molecular interactions between tomato roots and rhizogenic agrobacteria.

P32. Rayangnéwendé Adèle Ouédraogo (UCL). Evaluation de différentes formulations de composts associées ou non au Trichoderma et aux champignons mycorhiziens arbusculaires sur le rendement de la tomate ( Solanum lycopersicum) et sur le sol en conditions semi-contrôlées.

P33. Phuong Nguyen Nhu (VUB). A novel stress response triggered by ERD14.

P34. Manon Demulder (VUB). Chemical inhibitors of the SOG1 transcription factor to promote aluminium tolerance in maize and barley.

P35. Anne-Sophie Mathieu (UCL). Impact of high temperatures on sugar metabolism and yield in Cichorium intybus L. var sativum.

P36. Marie Vandermies (ULg). Versatile regulated promoter for Yarrowia lipolytica.

P37. Alexis Fernandez (ULg). Does pearling process concentrate β-Glucans in barley grain?

P38. Amaury Gérard (ULg). What is the landscape of artisanal cheese production in Belgium?

P39. Hassina Hafida Boukhalfa (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Improvement of spray retention on barley leaves.

P40. Quentin Rivière (ULB). Role of the circadian clock in the response of the plant-model Arabidopsis thaliana to magnesium deficiency.

P41. Soundous El-Hajjaji (ULg). Inventory of the raw milk butter production in Wallonia (Belgium).

P42. Amaury Gérard (ULg). Study of the growth potential of Listeria monocytogenes in cheeses made by Belgian farmers.

P43. Phuc Le Ho (KUL). Change of electrolyte leakage of dragon fruit (Hylocereus undatus) during storage.

P44. Reda Melhaoui (Université Mohammed Premier Oujda, Maroc). Tocopherol analysis in almond oils produced in eastern Morocco.

P45. Soundous El-Hajjaji (ULg). Study of the development of Listeria monocytogenes in raw milk butter.

P46. Kahramen Deghnouche (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Inventory and study of the nutritional value of spontaneous forage plants in an arid region of Algeria.

P47. Fingu Mabola Junior Corneille (ULg). Impact of endophytic entomopathogenic fungus on plant attractivity in aphid-virus-plant interactions.

P48. Hassina Hafida Boukhalfa (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Evualution of spray retention variability of hydrophobic plant leaves.

P49. Kahramen Deghnouche (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Evaluation of growth performance Ouled Djellal lambs according to sex, size of the litter and the parity in a semi-arid region of Algeria.

P50. Julien Louvieaux (ULB). Below-ground approaches to improve nitrogen use efficiency in oilseed rape.

Biomathematics

P51. Floris Dalemans (KUL). A prediction model for the seed and oil yield of Pongamia pinnata.

P52. Gleb Goussarov (UGent). Whole Genome Statistics for Comparing Bacterial Strains.

P53. Nicolas Dierckxsens (ULB). Targeted assembly and variance calling from whole genome data.

P54. Janis Baeten (UGent). A simple model for aerobic granular sludge.

P55. Joëlle De Caluwé (ULB). Modeling the photoperiodic entrainment of the plant circadian clock.

P56. François Ancien (ULB). Prediction and interpretation of deleterious coding variants in terms of protein structural stability.

P57. Tamas Lazar (VUB). Biophysical validation of fully disordered protein ensembles.

P58. Stijn Wittouck (UA). Comparative genomics of Lactobacillus bacteria.

Human Health

P59. Jone Paesmans (VUB). Revealing the function of TBC1D24 mutations in epilepsy and related neurological diseases.

P60. Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez (EEZ – CSIC, Spain). Blue lupin seed β-conglutin proteins reverse back the induced insulin resistance in pancreatic cells.

P61. Hung Nguyen (VUB). Validation of de novo designed calpain inhibitors.

P62. Mohamed Musrati (VUB). Ly6Clow Monocytes Promote Liver Regeneration during Drug-Induced Liver Failure.

P63. Mate Kiss (VUB). Non-canonical IL-1β release by myeloid cells promotes tumor progression and resistance to immunotherapy.

P64. Evangelia Bolli (VUB). Nanobody-based depletion of protumoral tumor-associated macrophages as novel cancer therapy.

P65. Annegrete Visnapuu (KUL). Studying ancient mechanism to synthesize novel anti-biofilm drugs.

P66. Ting Wu (UGent). Anti-inflammatory effect of Aronia polyphenols in combined microbial in vitro digestion/cell culture models.

P67. Kenny Appermans (KUL). Gradients of antimicrobials influence the development of antibiotic resistance.

P68. Shahbaz Bashir (KUL). Quantification of immune response in skin swelling test using an image-based platform.

P69. Ana Rita Pombo Antunes (UGent). Dissecting the heterogeneity and functions of the glioblastoma immune compartment.

P70. Laure Verstraete (KUL). In vitro and in vivo identification of persister determinants in natural and clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains.

P71. Laetitia Van Wonterghem (KUL). Identification and characterization of bacterial host factors involved in conjugative horizontal gene transfer.

P72. Bram Lories (KUL). Responses to ecological competition link biofilm formation, virulence and antibiotic resistance in Salmonella.

P73. Mieke De Buck (KUL). COOH-terminal SAA1 peptides fail to induce chemokines but synergize with CXCL8 and CCL3 to recruit leukocytes via FPR2.

P74. Helena Van Damme (VUB). The CCL8/CCR8 axis maintains an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

P75. Hanne Vissenaekens (UGent). Cellular quercetin uptake, localization and metabolism under stressed conditions.

P76. Khaoula Toumi (ULg). Assessment of exposure of workers to pesticide residues in tomato greenhouses.

P77. Hassina Hafida Boukhalfa (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Operator exposure risks in phytosanitary practices, case of Biskra – Algeria.

P78. Sara Abouelasrar Salama (KUL). Proteolytic cleavage of serum amyloid A (SAA) 1 by matrix metalloproteinases fine-tunes the inflammatory capacity of this acute phase protein.

Environment

P79. Hassan Maklad (VUB). Phosphorylation of the TetR transcription factor FadR in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius affects its ligand binding ability.

P80. Ze Liu (UGent). Combination of O3/H2O2 and UV to assess degradation of atrazine in aqueous solution.

P81. Vere Leybaert (KUL). Quantifying Precipitation Errors via Soil Moisture Data Assimilation.

P82. Hui Xu (UGent). Greater contribution of belowground than aboveground maize biomass to the stable soil organic carbon pool.

P83. Michiel Maertens (KUL). The impact of vegetation changes on soil moisture over the Dry Chaco

P84. Tess Goessens (UGent). Environmental screening of multi-class antimicrobial drug residues in salt and fresh water ecosystems using targeted and untargeted high resolution mass spectrometry.

P85. Nina Ricci Nicomel (UGent). Development of a high-throughput automated platform for standardized metal biosorption studies.

P86. Abuakri Wumbei (UGent). Pesticides Residue Analysis in Yam from Selected Markets Across Ghana and Belgium: An Evaluation of the QUECHERS Method.

P87. Anu Yadav (SCK-CEN). Radiation resistance in the cyanobacterium arthrospira.

P88. Gilles Olive (Ecole Industrielle et Commerciale de la Ville de Namur). Can Medauroidea extradentata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) and/or Haaniella echinata (Redtenbacher, 1906) (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) help us to fight Fallopia japonica ((Houtt.) Ronse Decr., 1988)?

P89. Tri Truong (UGent). Development a water monitoring system based on biological indicators with Ben Tre river system - the latest branch of Mekong River Basin before going to the sea.

P90. Kamilia Farhi (Mohamed Khider University – Biskra, Algeria). Estimation of the Black bellied sandgrouse group’s size in watering site in South-East of Algeria.

P91. Elena Borregán Ochando (UA). Incorporating the USEPA’s “CompTox” dashboard and the “For-Ident” platform in workflows for the identification and preliminary assessment of organic emerging micropollutants in water.

P92. Marlies Volckaert (UGent). Supply chain of forest products supported by spatial information systems.

P93. Liesbeth Lemmens (VUB). Transcription factor-mediated gene regulation in response to heat shock stress in thermoacidophilic archaea.

P94. Edelbis López Dávila (UGent). Pesticides knowledge and use by Cuban farmers from Sancti Spíritus regions.

Key-enabling Technologies

P95. Fréderick Matheuse (VUB). Liquid Chromatography and advanced 3D printing: a match made in heaven?

P96. Lisa Tripodi (KUL). Plastic based hydrophilic-in-hydrophobic microwell arrays for digital bioassays.

P97. Jolien Breukers (KUL). Development of a microfluidic platform for screening and sorting of single B cells.

P98. David Sybers (VUB). Development of fluorescent reporters for thermoacidophilic archaea

P99. Karen Ven (KUL). DNA-only digital bioassay

P100. Bernd Peeters (KUL). AuNP-labelled FO-SPR sensors to develop innovative DNAzyme-based bioassay concepts.

P101. Marine Luciano (UMons). Deciphering the role of the curvature in folded epithelial tissues.

P102. Laura Alaimo (UMons). Collective cell migration in geometric confinements imposed by microchannels.

P103. Dries Vloemans (KUL). Integration of passive SAT-based heating system on POC microfluidic (i)SIMPLE platform.

P104. Iene Rutten (KUL). DNA origami nano-architectures for well-defined and robust biosensing interfaces.

P105. Michiel Van Tendeloo (UA). Promising nitrogen removal performance with the Mainstream Anammox System (MAS) for sewage treatment.

P106. Steve Schoonooghe (VUB). Nanobodies: from research tools to diagnostics & therapeutics.