January 2008

• 08 jan
  Image Reconstruction in Small Animal SPECT

  doctoraatsverdediging door Andriy Andreyev

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 jan
  Phenotypes and Genotypes in Symptomatic and Idiopathic Epilepsy Syndromes

  doctoraatsverdediging door An Jansen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 30 jan
  Characterization of the receptors for the soluble pyocins S1, S2, and S3 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sarah Denayer

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

February 2008

• 07 feb
  Genetic engineering of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) for nutritional quality improvement

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tuong Van Nguyen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 feb
  John’s Equation and Penalized Likelihood Sinogram Restoration in Computed Tomography

  doctoraatsverdediging door Peter Forthmann

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 feb
  Stellar Dynamics in Young Clusters

  doctoraatsverdediging door Houria Belkus

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 12 feb
  Politiek van de wiskunde. Een theoretisch-filosofisch traject over de verbondenheden van de wiskunde met het politieke, met een praktische toepassing op het wiskundeonderwijs

  doctoraatsverdediging door Karen François

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 15 feb
  Instructed Second Language Learning of English Tense-Aspect by Persian Speakers

  doctoraatsverdediging door Newsha Ahmadi

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 15 feb
  Characterization of putative germline-specific promotors from Arabidopsis thaliana and their application in DNA modification strategies

  doctoraatsverdediging door Dimitri Verweire

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 feb
  Patient and staff dosimetry in diagnostic and interventional radiology

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nico Buls

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 20 feb
  Diatom community structure along a river continuum: influence of multiple stressors in headwaters (Zenne basin, Belgium)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Theresia Ndum Foy

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

March 2008

• 12 mrt
  Glucose and the beta cell: interplay between the specialized phenotype of insulin-producing beta cells and their glucose sensing

  doctoraatsverdediging door Geert Martens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 13 mrt
  Size and shape of small sedimentary particles: a proxy for the palaeoenvironment?

  doctoraatsverdediging door Daisy Tysmans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 mrt
  Kinetic analysis of the purine nucleoside hydrolase mechanism

  doctoraatsverdediging door An Vandemeulebroucke

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 mrt
  Cement fixation of femoral hip arthroplasty implants

  doctoraatsverdediging door Thierry Scheerlinck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 19 mrt
  IL-10 and regulatory T cells limit the pathogenicity of African trypanosome infection

  doctoraatsverdediging door Martin Guilliams

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 mrt
  Towards a deliberative interpretation of stakeholder involvement in EU policy-making

  doctoraatsverdediging door Irina Tanasescu

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 mrt
  Convergence towards and divergence from standard norms. The case of morpho-syntactic variation and code-switching in informal spoken Afrikaans

  doctoraatsverdediging door Gerald Stell

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

April 2008

• 11 apr
  The CMS Top Quark Physics Potential with 1 fb^(-1)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Heyninck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 apr
  Study of Vessel Mediated Physiological Parameters by Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  doctoraatsverdediging door Smitha Makkat

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 17 apr
  Therapeutic Nanoreactors: Combining Chemistry and Biology in a novel Triblock Copolymer Drug Delivery System

  doctoraatsverdediging door An Ranquin

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 apr
  Performance analysis of pedal electric cycles: an objective and subjective approach

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Cappelle

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 apr
  Importance of Cytochrome & matruation genes in iron metabolism and oxidative stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  doctoraatsverdediging door Barbara Baert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 apr
  Een woestijn die de stad verpulvert. Marxisme, kritiek en representatie in poststructuralisme, ander proza en postmodern proza

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sven Vitse

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 apr
  Osmose, dwang en tegenmacht? De verhoudingen tussen de openbare besturen in Brussel, 1970-2004

  doctoraatsverdediging door Joost Vaesen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 22 apr
  Environmental Change in Lesotho: An analysis of causes and consequences of land use change in the Lowland region

  doctoraatsverdediging door Pendo Maro

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 apr
  The assessment of luteal phase in stimulated and substituted cycles

  doctoraatsverdediging door Human Mousavi Fatemi

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 23 apr
  Effects of hydroxamate-based histone deacetylase inhibitors on the xenobiotic biotransformation capacity of cultured primary rat hepatocytes

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tom Henkens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 25 apr
  Onderzoek naar de missie en de organisatie van de Belgische moderne kunstfotografie tussen 1950 en 1965

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tamara Berghmans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 25 apr
  Noetherian semigroup algebras and prime maximal orders

  doctoraatsverdediging door Isabel Goffa

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 apr
  Modulation of quorum sensing in pathogenic pseudomonads

  doctoraatsverdediging door Saeed Tarighi

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 apr
  The dynamics of language activity - an evolutionary reconstruction

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nathalie Gontier

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 apr
  Efficient grafted organotin catalysts. Integrated investigation strategy for monitoring, catalytic activitiy and recyclability

  doctoraatsverdediging door Kevin Poelmans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

May 2008

• 05 mei
  End-of-life care and medical decision-making in the last phase of life

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lieve Van den Block

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 06 mei
  Ion transport in concentrated electrolyte solutions

  doctoraatsverdediging door Steven Van Damme

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 mei
  Landslide susceptibility mapping in A Luoi district, Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam

  doctoraatsverdediging door Long Nguyen Thanh

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 mei
  Genotyping and phylogeography of the Salix alba-S. fragilis complex: evidence from nuclear cyp73 intron polymorphisms

  doctoraatsverdediging door Quang Trung Le

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 mei
  Adsorptive characterization of a new generation of biporous materials for liquid phase analytical and preparative separations

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jeroen Persoons

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 13 mei
  Eco-construction. University & Industry Technology Day

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 14 mei
  Trade Unionists and the World: European and Latin American Labour and the Creation and Maintenance of International Free Trade Union Organisations (1949 - 1969)

  doctoraatsverdediging door María Magaly Rodríguez García

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 mei
  Solving Multi-Agent Sequential Decision Problems Using Learning Automata

  doctoraatsverdediging door Maarten Peeters

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 mei
  Modeling continuous-wave Raman lasers: towards an intrinsic heat mitigation mechanism

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nathalie Vermeulen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 mei
  Nonparametric regression estimation: an empirical process approach to uniform in bandwidth consistency of kerne-type estimators and conditional U-statistics

  doctoraatsverdediging door Julia Dony

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 mei
  Interfacing micro-components for optical interconnections from the FTTH-level to the PCB-level

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jürgen Van Erps

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 mei
  The Belgian Health Transition at the Dawn of the 21st Century: the Contribution of Social Factors to Inequality and Progress in Population Health

  doctoraatsverdediging door Patrick Deboosere

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 21 mei
  Critical evaluation of the current EU regulatory framework for the safety assessment of cosmetics

  doctoraatsverdediging door Marleen Pauwels

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 21 mei
  Implementation of blastocyst transfer in IVF

  doctoraatsverdediging door Evangelos Papanikolaou

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 22 mei
  Molecular targets of angiotensin IV

  doctoraatsverdediging door Heidi Demaegdt

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 mei
  Ambient References: Object designation on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tom Van Cutsem

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 mei
  Rules to improve packing structures used in liquid chromatography

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jeroen Billen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 26 mei
  Growing on the edge. Hydraulic architecture of mangroves: ecological plasticity and functional significance of water conducting tissues in Rhizophora mucronata and Avicennia marina

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nele Schmitz

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 mei
  Structure/function relationship of the lipase-foldase complex of Burkholderia glumae

  doctoraatsverdediging door Kris Pauwels

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 mei
  Firm complettion in metrically generated construcs with application to function spaces and sobrification

  doctoraatsverdediging door Eva Vandersmissen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 mei
  Chlorinated aldimines as versatile polyfunctional substrates in the Lewis acid mediated borono Mannich reaction

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sara Stas

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 mei
  Assessing the impacts of environmental change on the hydrology of the Nzoia catchment in the Lake Victoria basin

  doctoraatsverdediging door Faith Wairimu Githui

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 28 mei
  Extracellular factors involved in migration, proliferation and differentiation in the regenerating pancreas

  doctoraatsverdediging door Saskia De Breuck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 28 mei
  Finite element model updating and optimization of mechanical systems making use of regressive techniques

  doctoraatsverdediging door Gunther Steenackers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 mei
  From Bricks and Mortar to Virtual Universities. The Implementation of E-Learning in Flemish Universities: An Analysis of Determinants of Success from Multiple Perspectives

  doctoraatsverdediging door Katie Goeman

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 29 mei
  Implants for anchorage in orthodontics. An animal-experimental and clinical evaluation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Karlien Asscherickx

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 29 mei
  Optimization of a Dendritic Cell- Based Cancer Vaccine Evaluated in Mice

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sonja Van Meirvenne

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 30 mei
  Epitaxial growth of nitrides on germanium

  doctoraatsverdediging door Ruben Lieten

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

June 2008

• 11 jun
  Human duct cells, source of cytokines in the microenvironment of beta cell grafts

  doctoraatsverdediging door Babak Movahedi

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 jun
  Chronisch Veralgemeende Pijn bij Patiënten met het Chronisch Vermoeidheid Syndroom: een Onderschat Pijnpunt!

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mira Meeus

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 23 jun
  An integrative structural bioinformatics approach for the study of human genetic variation underlying conformational disease

  doctoraatsverdediging door Joke Reumers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 jun
  Nitrogen dynamics in estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems. Case study: the Scheldt estuary and the Southern Bight of the North Sea

  doctoraatsverdediging door Cristina Diaconu

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 jun
  GSM-based positioning: techniques and application

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nico Deblauwe

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 jun
  Transdifferentiation of rat pancreatic acinar cells to functional beta cells

  doctoraatsverdediging door Luc Baeyens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 27 jun
  Evolutionary study of the Hox gene family with matrix-based bioinformatics approaches

  doctoraatsverdediging door Morgane Thomas-Chollier

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 30 jun
  Fertility Preservation in Female Cancer Patients: A First Approach to Culture Early Stage Human Follicles after Cryopreservation

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jean Clair Sadeu

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 30 jun
  Psychiatrische diagnoses en de constructie van het zelf

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jasmina Sermijn

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

July 2008

• 01 jul
  Huizen en mensen. Wonen, verbouwen, investeren en lenen in drie Brugse wijken van de late middeleeuwen tot de negentiende eeuw

  doctoraatsverdediging door Heidi Deneweth

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 02 jul
  Study of genetic markers for type 1 diabetes within and outside the HLA region in the Belgian population

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Van Autreve

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 02 jul
  The multi-dimensionality of reward satisfaction: empirical studies in profit and non-profit organizations

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sara De Gieter

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 03 jul
  On the importance of interfaces, mobility and interaction in polymeric nanocomposites. A novel characterization methodology based on advanced thermal analysis

  doctoraatsverdediging door Hans Miltner

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 03 jul
  On the Separation of User Interface Concerns.

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sofie Goderis

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 03 jul
  The influence of Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening (PGD/PGS) on the Psychological Development of singletons and twins and Parental well-being

  doctoraatsverdediging door Julie Nekkebroeck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 10 jul
  Subnational coalition formation in multilevel settings. A comparative study of Spain and Germany

  doctoraatsverdediging door Irina Ştefuriuc

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

August 2008

• 21 aug
  Catalytic hot gas cleaning for biomass gasification: optimization of catalyst composition and operation conditions

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lina Ma

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 26 aug
  Molecular and genetic mechanisms of (geno)toxicity induced by cobalt contining dusts

  doctoraatsverdediging door Noömi Lombaert

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 aug
  Area-aware RF front-end circuit design in nanometer CMOS

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jonathan Borremans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

September 2008

• 01 sep
  Towards an adaptable millimeter wave reflector: development of an antenna coupled opto-electronic modulator array

  doctoraatsverdediging door Gert Poesen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 03 sep
  A contribution to an integrated and more sustainable design approach for the material support of shelter after disaster

  doctoraatsverdediging door Caroline Henrotay

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 04 sep
  Scissor-hinged retractable membrane roofs

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tom Van Mele

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 09 sep
  Exposure levels of environmental contaminants (i.e. cadmium, lead, dioxins and PCBs) in the Flemish population

  door Carmen Schroijen

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 15 sep
  Music vs Metaphysics and Rationalism (A General Theory of Knowledge)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Lampros Ntousikos

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 17 sep
  Language and Identity in Brussels Language Use, Identity, Self-Confidence, and Motivation of Adolescents in a Multilingual, Urban Context

  doctoraatsverdediging door Evy Ceuleers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 sep
  Assessing and Modeling the Longitudinal Development of Language Skills

  doctoraatsverdediging door Sonja Janssens

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 sep
  De figuur in het tapijt. Op zoek naar zes auteurs

  doctoraatsverdediging door Daniël Rovers

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 23 sep
  Opening academiejaar 2008-2009

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

October 2008

• 02 okt
  Methylation Analysis of Imprinted Genes in Human Gametes and Preimplantation Embryos

  doctoraatsverdediging door Elke Geuns

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 03 okt
  Accredition disc phenomena in cataclysmic variables

  doctoraatsverdediging door Christina Papadaki

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 07 okt to 16 dec
  Starterseminaries

  starters seminar door Technology Transfer Interface

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 24 okt
  An international Collaborative Study of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection – Child and Family Outcomes (ICSI-CFO)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Alastair Sutcliffe

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 29 okt
  Headache and neck pain. Diagnostic and prognostic implications

  doctoraatsverdediging door Willem De Hertogh

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

November 2008

• 05 nov
  Theoretical and experimental limitations of shear-driven chromatography

  doctoraatsverdediging door Veronika Fekete

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 nov
  Juvenile and adolescent age-linked determinants of health-related fitness at age 35. A 30 years longitudinal study

  doctoraatsverdediging door Jan Taeymans

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Health Campus

• 19 nov
  Impact of extensive shrimp farming on a tropical river ecosystem (Bac Lieu Province - Viet Nam)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Quoc Bao Tran

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 27 nov
  Identification of the plastic material behaviour through full-field displacement measurements and inverse methods

  doctoraatsverdediging door Steven Cooreman

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

December 2008

• 01 dec
  Civil War and Economic Development in Burundi, 1993 – 2007. The Impact of Violence on Household Welfare

  doctoraatsverdediging door Tom Bundervoet

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 05 dec
  Discursive Construction of European Identity in the EU's Relations with Turkey

  doctoraatsverdediging door Senem Aydin Düzgit

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 05 dec
  An integral approach to modeling causality

  doctoraatsverdediging door Stijn Meganck

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 08 dec
  Processing of geostationary satellite observations for earth radiation budget studies

  doctoraatsverdediging door Nicolas Clerbaux

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 10 dec
  Empirical studies on motivation-related concepts applied to nonprofit employees

  doctoraatsverdediging door Rein De Cooman

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 12 dec
  Microlenses and infrared optical components: from fabrication towards novel interferometric characterization

  doctoraatsverdediging door Virginia Gomez Onate

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 12 dec
  Are Peri-urban Mangroves Viable? Effects of Sewage Pollution and Wood Exploitation on the Structure and Development of the Mangroves of Mombassa (Kenya)

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mohamed Omar Said Mohamed

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 dec
  Scalable joint source-channel coding of image and video signals

  doctoraatsverdediging door Maryse Stoufs

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 16 dec
  Interplay between individual susceptibility and cellular phenotypes in occupationally exposed workers

  doctoraatsverdediging door Raluca Matteuca

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 18 dec
  Growth kinetics and mass transport phenomena during protein crystallization

  doctoraatsverdediging door Mike Sleutel

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 dec
  4-Amino-tetrahydro-2-benzazepin-3-One derivates: synthesis, conformational analysis and receptor docking

  doctoraatsverdediging door Rien De Wachter

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus

• 19 dec
  Kunio Maekawa. A Japanese modernist in search for architectural identity

  doctoraatsverdediging door Hera Van Sande

  Locatie: Campus Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering campus