Professor Lynn Vanhaecke
RESEARCH FOCUS
Professor Vanhaecke’s research focus is mainly HRMS-based (untargeted) metabolomics, enclosing multi-component screening and enabling for instance biomarker studies, which are specifically designed to serve multiple applications with a particular focus on food intake and food-related Western diseases.
Find out moreRESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Open to PhD applications from those who have an interest in;
- Biofluid metabolomics for discovering biomarkers for diet-related conditions.
- Tissue metabolomics and DNA adductomics to unravel the link between meat consumption and Western diseases.
- Environmental metabolomics to study environmental contamination.
- Food metabolomics as a means to determine food safety and quality.
Research Students
Phd Title: Approaches to the detection of the abuse of anabolic steroids in equine sport.
Name: Bobby Gray
Years of Study: 4
Country: UK
Phd Title: A metabolomics approach to investigate the association between heme in red meat and the development of colon cancer
Name: Caroline Rombouts
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: Passive sampling and analysis of emerging organic micropollutants in the marine environment
Name: Steve Huysman
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: Passive sampling and analysis of emerging organic micropollutants in the marine environment
Name: Francis Vanryckeghem
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Research Students
Phd Title: Red and processed meat in the diet: toxicological and metabolomic profiling under simulated gastrointestinal conditions
Name: Sophie Goethals
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: Discovery of metabolite biomarkers for early diagnosis of cow’s milk allergy
Name: Ellen De Paepe
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: Early detection of intestinal fibrosis in patient’s with Crohn’s disease: a necessity to initiate a clinical trial
Name: Simon Bos
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: The impact of stress on physiology, emotion regulation and food choices in adolescents: a laboratory intervention study
Name: Kathleen Wijnant
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Research Students
Phd Title: Boosting the production of innovative bola amphiphiles by applying integrated omics analyses
Name: Sven Dierickx
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Phd Title: Rectal sampling and ambient ionization-based metabolomics for point-of-care precision medicine in children
Name: Margot De Spiegeleer
Years of Study: 4
Country: Belgium
Alumni: where are they now?
Dr. Anneleen Decloedt
PhD title: Novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of equine infectious joint disease
Country: Belgium
Current position: Scientific Coordinator at Quality Control cv
Dr. Nathalie De Clercq
PhD title: A metabolomic framework to study the regulating role of phytohormones towards carotenoids in tomato fruit
Country: Belgium
Current position: Application Specialist QQQ at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dr. Julie Vanden Bussche
PhD Title: DNA adduct formation due to the gastrointestinal digestion of red meat
Country: Belgium
Current Position: R&D - Global Product stewardship: Project leader for fabric care products for Greater Europe at Procter & Gamble
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