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Lipidomics in a changing environment |
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Thursday, 23 May 2013 08:36 |
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Lipidomics in a changing environment: effect of temperature rise on fatty acid pathways in copepods
Within the frame of her PhD research, Eva Werbrouck (promotors: Vanreusel A. & De Troch M.) is currently at a research stay at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (Sweden) (15/4-31/5/2013). Her research stay is supported by a grant from the ASSEMBLE network (EU FP7).
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Last Updated on Thursday, 23 May 2013 08:55 |
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Oceans&Lakes students board the "SIMON STEVIN" |
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Thursday, 21 March 2013 09:51 |
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First year students of our international and interuniversity master programme "Oceans and lakes" went at sea this week on board of the brand new research vessel of VLIZ, the ‘Simon Stevin’. The aim of this training trip is to teach students how to organise a sampling campaign at sea, through the use of different equipment and sampling tools. Samples will be used to identify relevant biological and environmental features of the marine environment from the seafloor to the air, and integrated results will be used to investigate the ecological characteristics of the Belgian part of the North Sea. Both temporal as well as spatial variation was included in the analysis, the first one by performing a 24h cycle on the epi- and hyperbenthos, the second one by covering an inshore-offshore, east-west gradient sampling both sediments and water column along our coastline. Despite the fact that the weather was not really great for the start of the spring season, the enthusiasm of the students was there, resulting in a nice sample collection which will be further processed in our lab in Gent.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:00 |
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Friday, 21 September 2012 13:51 |
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Het Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) en VLOOT hebben de SIMON STEVIN in gebruik genomen. De SIMON STEVIN is het nieuwste pronkstuk voor het Vlaamse wetenschapsbeleid, alsook het eerste Vlaamse nieuwbouw-onderzoeksschip. Het schip biedt een veel bredere waaier aan mogelijkheden dan haar voorganger ZEELEEUW en is ook qua onderwatergeluid het stilste schip van Europa. Een gezamelijke financiering (EWI-VLOOT) lag aan de basis van dit ambitieuze project waarvan ook onze onderzoeksgroep (Mariene Biologie - Universiteit Gent) de vruchten mag plukken. Minister van Innovatie Ingrid Lieten bezegelde de ingebruikname van het schip eigenhandig, op 13 september, met een fles champagne.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 September 2012 15:04 |
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Seagrass detritus, the new copepod refuge? |
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Friday, 14 September 2012 14:00 |
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In the frame of the cooperation between the Oceanology lab (University of Liège) and the Marine Biology research group (Ghent University), a joint sampling campaign is ongoing at the Stareso field station (Station de recherche sous-marine et océanographique) in Calvi (Corsica). The study aims to unravel the interactions of meio- and macrofauna with the Posidonia oceanica seagrass detritus. It is well known that living seagrass beds as nursery and feeding ground for many juvenile fish but the role of the seagrass detritus is far less studied. The PhD research of Drs. Thibaud Mascart (promotors: G. Lepoint, M. De Troch) aims to unravel the role of detritus as potential food source for associated meiofauna, with special emphasis on harpacticoid copepods (Crustacea, Copepoda).
During this field campaign, Silke Deschoemaeker (Biology student, UGent) collects samples in underwater seagrass detritus accumulation for her masterthesis work. More specifically, she will investigate the interannual variance in meiofauna communities and especially in harpacticoid copepods. For her sampling, she is assisted by Drs. François Remy (ULg, Oceanography, left on photo) and Drs. Thibaud Mascart (UGent, Marine Biology, right on photo).
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