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Doctoral thesises

  • An Herreman (B): ‘Presenilins  and nicastrin are components of the γ-secretase complex involved in APP and notch processing’, 24 November 2003 (promoter)
  • Omar Nyabi (MA): ‘Structural and functional repercussions of loss of function and clinical mutants of presenilin’, 23 March 2004 (promoter)
  • Carl Esselens (B): ‘Characterization of the Presenilin 1-Telencephalin Interaction and Implications for Alzheimer's Disease’, 4 April 2005 (co-promoter)
  • Jos Tournoy (B): ‘Physiological study of Presenilins and BACEs, two proteases involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease’, 20 March 2006 (promoter)
  • Maarten Leyssen(B): ‘Axon growth, injury and regeneration in the fly brain’, 22 November 2006 (co-promoter)
  • Ira Espuny Camacho (E): ‘Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor, a transcription factor regulating amyloid beta peptide clearance’, 5 October 2007 (promoter)
  • Els Marjaux (B): ‘Looking for proteins modulating Beta-secretase activity’, 14 January 2009 (promoter)
  • Lutgarde Serneels (B): ‘Differential biological contribution and functional properties of the three Aph1 genes to Gamma-secretase activity’, 3 March 2009 (promoter)
  • Alexandra Tolia (GR): ‘Structure-function analysis of Presenilin 1, the catalytic core of the Gamma-secretase complex’, 29 April 2009 (promoter)
  • Thomas Tousseyn (B): ‘Analysis of the role of the disintegrin metalloprotease ADAM10 in regulated intramembrane proteolysis’, 7 May 2009 (promoter)
  • Jerome Van Biervliet (B): ‘Genetic ablation of APH1BC improves multiple Alzheimer's Disease phenotypes without disturbing notch signalling’, 22 June 2009 (promoter)
  • Bruno Bergmans (B): ‘A Physiological Study of the Amyloid Precursor Protein: A Stem Cell Based Approach’, 23 September 2009 (promoter)
  • Tomasz Rudka (PL): 'The function of the mitochondrial rhomboid', 14 October 2009 (promoter)
  • Ellen Jorissen (B): ‘Investigation of the role of ADAM10 in brain development and as a candidate alpha-secretase in Alzheimer's disease', 20 January 2011 (promoter)
  • Tim Dejaegere (B): ‘Deletion of Aph1B subunit of the gamma-secretase complex creates a novel mouse model for schizophrenia', 27 April 2011 (promoter)
  • Leen Bammens (B): ‘Structural and functional analysis of Pen-2, the fourth subunit of the gamma-secretase complex', 23 June 2011 (promoter)
  • Lujia Zhou (CHN): ‘Antibody-based inhibition and functional studies of BACE1, the β-secretase in Alzheimer’s disease', 27 October 2011 (promoter)