Research Spotlight: Kwaliteit in de kijker

Kwaliteit en kwaliteitszorg zijn basisbegrippen in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dat blijkt onder meer uit het aantal publicaties van onze vorsers in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften met hoge impact. Deze webpagina benadrukt piekprestaties die ver boven het gemiddelde liggen.

Excellence Grants

European Research Council - Starting Grants

  • Bart de Boer, Advancing behavioral and cognitive understanding of speech (ABACUS)
  • Helga de Valk, Families of migrant origin: a life course perspective
  • Franky Bossuyt, TAPAS : Tracing Antimicrobial Peptides and pheromones in the Amphibian Skin.

Methusalem fellows:

Odysseus fellows - type I:

  • Peter Tompa, Structural biology of the intrinsically disordered plant chaperone ERD14
  • Nick van Eijndhoven, Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube and its Deep Core extension

Odysseus fellows - type II:

  • Benny Geys, Mico-Level Socialism and the Role of the Institutional Environment in Civic Engagement
  • Freya Blekman, Search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Sebastiaan Eeltink, Design and development of self-structuring nanomaterials for liquid chromatography
  • Jeroen Raes, Systems-level analysis of the human microbiome in health and disease
  • Kerensa Broersen, An analysis of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease-associated risk factors on the toxicity of Abeta aggregation
  • Han Remaut, Structural biology of Helicobacter pylori virulence factors
  • Filip Meysman, Quantifying Darwin’s last idea: the influence of bioturbation on the biogeochemistry of marine sediments, and its impact on the global carbon cycle

Senior Research Fellowships:

  • Karen Celis, Substantive Representation of Social Groups: Normative Theory, Empirical Research and Methods
  • Steffen Ducheyne, Revisiting Eighteenth-Century Scientific Methodology: Historical cum Systematic Study of Scientific Methodology after Newton
  • Freya Blekman, Search for new physics in events with leptons, jets and missing transverse energy at the Large Hadron Collider
  • Marinee Chuah, Development of novel gene and cell therapy approaches based on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) and adult stem cells
  • Erik Franckx, The transformation of actors in the international law of the sea
  • Guy Verschaffelt, Characterization, modelling and applications of novel semiconductor lasers
  • Leonardus van Grunsven, Analysis of HDAC repressor complexes with a function during liver fibrosis
  • Kris Deschouwer, Political representation in multi-layered systems
  • Ilse Rooman, Cell plasticity of adult pancreatic epithelium in regeneration and disease
  • Alison Evelyn Woodward, Equalities and diversities in European societies: The transformation of society and politics locally and globally through transnational social movements
  • Marc Elskens, Flux and fate of organic biogenic material in and through the oceanic water column layers
  • Stefan Magez, Parasitology: molecular, immunological & biotechnological aspects
  • Sonja Snacken, Transformations in late modern societies and penality: how to curb exclusionary practices
  • Kristiaan Thielemans, Cell therapy in Cancer
  • Yves Rolain, Measurement and modelling of nonlinear systems at RF and microwave frequencies
  • Serge Gutwirth, Sciences and the democratic constitutional state: a mutual transformation process
  • Patrick Vanderheyden, Experimental models to study angiotensin receptors in the renin-angiotensin system
  • Remy Loris, Structural biology and biophysics of persistence: Bacterial TA modules
  • Michel Defrise, Image reconstruction in emission and transmission tomography
  • Diederik Aerts, Elaboration of a contextual and emergent theory for human thought and decision processes using quantum mathematical structure modeling with applications in the fields of cognition, semantic and decision theories, and economics

(last update 19.01.2012)

Publicaties in Nature en Science

De meest recente publicaties in Nature & Science, de twee multidisciplinaire wetenschappelijke tijdschriften met de hoogste impact

Nature (www.nature.com)
  • Crystal structure of the beta(2) adrenergic receptor-Gs protein complex, Rasmussen SGF, DeVree BT , Zou YZ, Kruse AC, Chung KY, Kobilka TS, Thian FS, Chae PS, Pardon E, Calinski D, Mathiesen JM, Shah STA, Lyons JA, Caffrey M, Gellman SH, Steyaert J, Skiniotis G, Weis WI, Sunahara RK, Kobilka BK, NATURE 477 (7366): 549-U311 SEP 29 2011 (article, team)
  • Crystal structure of the FimD usher bound to its cognate FimC-FimH substrate, Phan G, Remaut H, Wang T, Allen WJ, Pirker KF, Lebedev A, Henderson NS, Geibel S, Volkan E, Yan J, Kunze MBA, Pinkner JS, Ford B, Kay CWM, Li HL, Hultgren SJ, Thanassi DG, Waksman G, NATURE 474 (7349): 49-U71 JUN 2 2011 (article, team)
  • Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome, Arumugam M, Raes J, et al., NATURE 473 (7346): 174-180 MAY 12 2011 (article, team)
  • Melt-induced speed-up of Greenland ice sheet offset by efficient subglacial drainage, Sundal AV, Shepherd A, Nienow P, Hanna E, Palmer S, Huybrechts P, NATURE 469(7331): 521-524, JAN 27 2011 (letter, team)
  • Structure of a nanobody-stabilized active state of the beta(2) adrenoceptor, Rasmussen SGF, Choi HJ, Fung JJ, Pardon E, Casarosa P, Chae PS, DeVree BT, Rosenbaum DM, Thian FS, Kobilka TS, Schnapp A, Konetzki I, Sunahara RK, Gellman SH, Pautsch A, Steyaert J, Weis WI, Kobilka BK, NATURE 469(7329): 175-180, JAN 13 2011 (article, team)
  • A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing, Qin JJ , Li RQ , Raes J, et al., NATURE 464 (7285): 59-U70 MAR 4 2010 (article, team)
  • GLOBAL CHANGE West-side story of Antarctic ice, Huybrechts P, NATURE 458 (7236): 295-296 , MAR 19 2009 (editorial, team)
  • Solar system - Lethal billiards, Claeys P, Goderis S, NATURE 449 (7158): 30-31 SEP 6 2007 (editoriaal, team)
  • Effect of natural iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean, Blain S, Queguiner B, Armand L, ..., Jacquet S, et al., NATURE 446 (7139): 1070-U1 APR 26 2007 (artikel, team)
  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica, Barbante C, Barnola JM, Becagli S, ..., Huybrechts P, et al. NATURE 444 (7116): 195-198 NOV 9 2006 (artikel, team)
  • Charon's radius and atmospheric constraints from observations of a stellar occultation, Gulbis AAS, Elliot JL, Person MJ, Adams ER, Babcock BA, Emilio M, Gangestad JW, Kern SD, Kramer EA, Osip DJ, Pasachoff JM, Souza SP, Tuvikene T, NATURE 439 (7072): 48-51 JAN 5 2006. (artikel, team)
Science (www.sciencemag.org)
  • Response - Cretaceous Extinctions, Schulte P, ..., Claeys P, ..., SCIENCE 328 (5981): 975-976, MAY 21 2010 (letter, team)
  • Is the Message from Athens Being Heard?, Merken R, Bazigou F, Koedam N, SCIENCE 327 (5972): 1453-1454, MAR 19 2010 (letter, team)
  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, Schulte P, Alegret L, Arenillas I, ..., Claeys P, ...,SCIENCE 327 (5970): 1214-1218 MAR 5 2010 (article, team)
  • A Periplasmic Reducing System Protects Single Cysteine Residues from Oxidation, Depuydt M, Leonard SE, Vertommen D, Denoncin K, Morsomme P, Wahni K, Messens J,Carroll KS, Collet JF, SCIENCE 26 (5956): 1109-1111 NOV 20 2009 (article, team)
  • Gradual Adaptation Toward a Range-Expansion Phenotype Initiated the Global Radiation of Toads, Van Bocxlaer I, Loader SP , Roelants K, Biju SD , Menegon M, Bossuyt F, SCIENCE 327 (5966): 679-682 FEB 5 2010 (article, team)
  • A world without mangroves?, Duke NC, Meynecke JO, Dittmann S, ..., Koedam N,..., Dahdouh-Guebas F, SCIENCE 317 (5834): 41-42 JUL 6 2007 (brief, team)
  • Revisiting carbon flux through the ocean's twilight zone, Buesseler KO, Lamborg CH, Boyd PW, ..., Dehairs F, Elskens M, et al., SCIENCE 316 (5824): 567-570 APR 27 2007 (artikel, team)
  • Coastal vegetation and the Asian tsunami, Dahdouh-Guebas F, Koedam N, SCIENCE 311 (5757): 37-37 JAN 6 2006 (brief, team)
  • Comment on "How science survived: Medieval manuscripts' 'demography' and classic texts' extinction",  Declercq G, SCIENCE 310 (5754): DEC 9 2005 (editoriaal, team)
  • Ice-sheet and sea-level changes, Alley RB, Clark PU, Huybrechts P, Joughin I, SCIENCE 310 (5747): 456-460 OCT 21 2005 (review, team)
  • Deep Impact: Observations from a worldwide Earth-based campaign, Meech KJ, ..., Sterken C, ..., SCIENCE 310 (5746): 265-269 OCT 14 2005 (artikel, team)
  • Biodiversity in Sri Lanka and the Western Ghats - Response, Bossuyt F, Meegaskumbura M, Beenaerts N, Gower DJ, Pethiyagoda R, Roelants K, Mannaert A, Wilkinson M, Schneider CJ, Bahir MM, Manamendra-Apachchi K, Ng PKL, Oommen OV, Milinkovitch MC, SCIENCE 308 (5719): 199-199 APR 8 2005 (brief, team)
(Vanaf 2005, laatste update 19.01.2012)

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