Alumni
Graduated PhD students
Tzu-Keng Shen
The H₂S–persulfidation axis as a critical regulator of redox homeostasis in chronic metabolic liver disease
Current position: postdoctoral researcher phosphatase inhibitors - VIB-VUB Redox Signaling lab
Israel Pérez Chávez
Fluorescent protein-based biosensors to shed light on hepatic glycolysis and metabolic regulation
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher biosensors - VIB-VUB Redox Signaling lab
Julia Malo Pueyo
Molecular insights into the structural organization and redox relay dynamics of human and yeast peroxiredoxins
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher peroxiredoxins - Bruce Morgan Saarland University and Joris Messens VIB-VUB
Anna Caccamo
The role of ascorbate peroxidase 2 and protein cysteine modifications in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii’
Current position: Postdoc at the University of Edinburgh
Ting Luo
Identifying protein interaction partners and cysteine oxidative modifications: case studies for peroxiredoxin 2 and STIM2
Current position: Research Analyst, Prinses Máxima Center pediatric oncology, Netherlands
Trung Nghia Vo
How peroxiredoxin 1 interacts with ASK1 and protects macrophages from oxidative stress
Current postion: Senior Research Associate, Genmab B.V., Netherlands
Aleksandra Lewandowska
Forward and reverse: looking for components of oxidative stress signalling pathways
Current position: Scientific officer at European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Emerging Risks and Scientific Committee Unit, Italy
Bo Wei
Site-specific discovery of protein S-sulfenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana: chemoproteomic approaches
Current position: Lecturer, Hefei University, AnHui, China
Barbara De Smet
Protein cysteine sulfenylation in plant stress responses: a journey through the organelles
Current position: Mint Consultants, Belgium
Maria-Armineh Tossounian
Thiol-disulfide redox switches for the enzymatic reduction of protein methionine sulfoxide
Previous position: Ivan Gout lab, Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, UK
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Helena Cochemé Lab, Imperial College London and MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London UK
Solvay Award laureate 2019
Nandita Bodra
How Arabidopsis thaliana dehydroascorbate reductase 2 and mitogen activated kinase 4 cope with cysteine sulfur oxidation
Positions: Sir William Dunn school of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK / Karina Persson's lab, Umeå University, Sweden/ Gilles Trave group at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), France
Brandán Pedre Pérez
Thiol switches in Corynebacterium glutamicum that fight off oxidative stress
Positions: Tobias Dick lab at the German cancer research Center (DFKZ), Heidelberg, Germany / Peter Dedecker lab, KULeuven, Belgiumb
Laura Van Bergen
Insights into the architectural design of the active site of AhpE peroxiredoxin through an experimental and computational approach
Current position: SLIMS Store Content Owner at Agilent
Mosammat Salma Akter
Mining the reactive-oxygen-species signal transduction proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana: a sulfenomic approach
Current position: The Scripps Research Institute, Florida, US and Emily Flashman group, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Cezary Waszczak
Genetic screens to identify ROS signal transducers in Arabidopsis thaliana
Current position: Viiki Plant Science Center; University of Helsinki, Finland
Koen Van Laer
Redox regulation in Actinomycetes: The mycoredoxin-1 and NrdH-redoxin thiol-switch mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium glutamicum
Positions: Tobias Dick lab at the German cancer research Center (DFKZ), Heidelberg, Germany / Eurofins CDMO, Belgium
Wael Mohamed
Expression of biological active disulfide rich proteins using a wheat germ cell-free extract
Current position: Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Goedele Roos
Quantum Chemical Study of Arsenate Reductase
Current position: UGSF, University of Lille and CNRS, France