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RISE – EXPOSE: Rotifer In SpacE; EXPOsition of bdelloid rotifers to the vacuum of space and cosmic radiations outside the International Space Station (ISS)
Heuskin, A., Hespeels, B. & Berthe, J.
1/02/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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RISE-2021: Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga: a new eukaryotic extremophile model organism to study the impact of radiation and micro-gravity on biological processes
Hespeels, B., Lucas, S., Heuskin, A., Van Doninck, K., Baatout, S., Coos, R., Cardinal, M. & Grailly, S.
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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RISE: Breaking bad? Genomic evolution and protective mechanisms in asexual bdelloid rotifers exposed to charged particle beams.
Hespeels, B., Van Doninck, K., Lucas, S., Heuskin, A., BOPP, C., BAUMLE, V., Baatout, S., Baselet, B., Moreels, M., Terwagne, M., Bruneau, L., RIGAUX, C. & BRUNETTI, E.
1/01/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Adineta vaga under fire: simulating the impact of radiation
Perrot, A., Hespeels, B., Van Doninck, K. & Heuskin, A. C., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Hydrobiologia.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Back to the roots, desiccation and radiation resistances are ancestral characters in bdelloid rotifers
Hespeels, B., Fontaneto, D., Cornet, V., Penninckx, S., Berthe, J., Bruneau, L., Larrick, J. W., Rapport, E., Bailly, J., Debortoli, N., Iakovenko, N., Janko, K., Heuskin, A-C., Lucas, S., Hallet, B. & Van Doninck, K., Dec 2023, In: BMC biology. 21, 1, p. 72 1 p., 72.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Radiobiology Textbook: Space Radiobiology
Hellweg, C., Arena, C., Baatout, S., Baselet, B., Beblo-Vranesevic, K., Caplin, N., Coos, R., Da Pieve, F., De Micco, V., Foray, N., Hespeels, B., Heuskin, A-C., Kronenberg, J., Milojevic, T., Miranda, S., MORIS, V., Penninckx, S., Radstake, W., Rehnberg, E., Rettberg, P., & 5 others, 2023, Space Radiobiology. Baatout, S. (ed.). Springer, Cham, p. 503-569Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotifer Adineta vaga
Terwagne, M., Nicolas, E., Hespeels, B., Herter, L., Virgo, J., Demazy, C., Heuskin, A-C., Hallet, B. & Van Doninck, K., Dec 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 48Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ēngines of Ēternity: An Artistic Inquiry into Space Settlement Ideology Using Rotifer Experiments on Board the ISS
Vermeulen, A., Maranan, D. S., Steyaert, P., Versbraegen, N., Peeters, A., Verschuren, J., Pereira, F., Faber, N., Mirzada, F., Hespeels, B. & Doninck, K., 1 Sept 2022, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC). Paris, FranceResearch output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Activities
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Pushing the limits: bdelloid rotifers on the road to space conquest?
Cécile Bopp (Speaker) & Boris Hespeels (Speaker)
23 Mar 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Benelux Congress of Zoology 21st
Boris Hespeels (Speaker)
12 Dec 2014 → 13 Dec 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution
Boris Hespeels (Poster)
8 Jun 2014 → 12 Jun 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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13th International Rotifer Symposium ROTIFERA XIII
Boris Hespeels (Speaker)
18 Nov 2012 → 24 Nov 2012Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Xème Réunion du groupe de contact FNRS, Oxidative stress and genotoxic response, "Is the genome integrity of bdelloid rotifers preserved following desiccation?" B. Hespeels, M. Knapen, C. Laurent, R. Koszul, K. Van Doninck
Boris Hespeels (Speaker)
11 May 2012Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Thesis
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Asexual bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga submitted to desiccation: gateway to genetic exchanges and mechanisms of extreme resistance.
Author: Hespeels, B., 21 Oct 2016Supervisor: Van Doninck, K. (Supervisor), Danchin, E. (External person) (Jury), Schön, I. (External person) (Jury), De Bolle, X. (Jury) & Depiereux, É. (President)
Student thesis: Doc types › Doctor of Sciences
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Contribution à l'amélioration de la résistance aux pathogènes chez la chicorée industrielle à l'aide de marqueurs moléculaires de classe 1.
Author: Hespeels, B., 2009Supervisor: Van Cutsem, P. (Supervisor) & Dauchot, N. (Co-Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master types › Master in Biochemistry and molecular and cellular Biology
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New Biology Findings from University of Namur Published (Back to the roots, desiccation and radiation resistances are ancestral characters in bdelloid rotifers)
Boris Hespeels, Anne-Catherine Heuskin, Stephane Lucas, NICOLAS DEBORTOLI, Karine Van Doninck, Sebastien Penninckx, Valerie Cornet & Jeremie Bailly
21/04/23
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Press/Media: Expert Comment