Research Interests

Click above to learn more about what we are up to now and in the near future in each of the three research topics we will be pursuing over the next several years and our key publications in each topic.

• Transcriptional regulation of sensory fate specification

  Aerts et al 2010 PLoS Biology (Link)

  van Es et al 2010 Nature Communications (Link)

  Bossuyt et al 2009 PLoS Biology (Link) (Press Release)

  Quan et al 2004 Development (PDF)*

 

• Developmental patterning of neuronal wiring in the fly CNS
  

  Nicolaï et al 2010 PNAS (Link) (Press Release)

  Srahna et al 2006 PLoS Biology (Link) (Synopsis) (Press Release) (See Movie)

  
  

• Axonal pathology, injury and regeneration in the fly CNS

  Ayaz et al 2008 Journal of Neuroscience (PDF)* (Press Release) (See Movie)

  Reeve et al 2005 Current Biology (PDF) (Press Release)

 

• Expanding the genetic tool-kit in Drosophila

  Choi et al 2009 Science (Link)

  Aerts et al 2009 PLoS Genetics (PDF)

  Schulz et al 2009 NAR (PDF)

  Computational Tools for Genetomics^

  cisTargetX

  HighFly

  cisTarget

  RESC

  More tools developed by Stein

 *:

 ^: see Hiesinger and Hassan 2005 Cell (PDF)

Drosophila

• Flybase
• Drosophila Virtual Library
• Introduction to Drosophila
• LNG Fly Stock List
• RNAi Library @ VDRC
• RNAi Library @ Harvard

NERF : the future is here!

• NERF Home
• Our NERF link

Funding

• VIB
• EMBO Young Investigator Program
• KUL
• FRAXA
• European Commission
• FWO
• IWT
• BELSPO

Graduate Education at KUL

• K.U. Leuven Doctoral School for Biomedical Sciences
  1. Program in Molecular and Developmental Genetics
  2. Program in Cognitive and Molecular Neuroscience
  3. Program in Cancer

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Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics
VIB

Center for Human Genetics
K.U. Leuven School of Medicine

Post Box 602, O&N4 Building
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium

 

Phone:

+32 16 33 07 52 (Bassem's Office)
+32 16 33 01 32 (Lab)

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Group leaders

Postdoctoral fellows

Ph.D. students

Ching-Man Choi       Photo

Marlen Schlieder (VIB Fellow)    Photo

Marion Langen         Photo

Laura Nicolai (IWT Fellow)     Photo

Alessia Soldano     Photo

Duygu Esen (KUL DBOF Fellow)    Photo

Zeynep Okray     Photo

Liqun Yuan (CSC Fellow)    Photo

Maya Nicolas (LCNRS Fellow)    Photo

                                           Lab Alumni

Who they are and what they did                     Career since leaving the lab

People in leadership roles in Bold

Fun

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