Breaking bad? Genomic evolution and protective mechanisms in asexual bdelloid rotifers exposed to charged particle beams.

Hespeels, Boris (PI)
Van Doninck, Karine (CoI)
Lucas, Stephane (CoI)
Heuskin, Anne-Catherine (Support role)
BOPP, CECILE (Researcher)
BAUMLE, VERONIQUE (Researcher)
Baatout, Sarah (CoI)
Baselet, Bjorn (Researcher)
Moreels, Marjan (Researcher)
Terwagne, Matthieu (Support role)
Bruneau, Lucie (Technician)
RIGAUX, CHRISTOPHE (Researcher)
BRUNETTI, EMILIO (Researcher)

SCK•CEN

Project: Research

Short title	Breaking Bad
Acronym	RISE 2016-2018
Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/01/16 → 31/12/18

Attachment to an Research Institute in UNAMUR

NARILIS
ILEE

1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Poster
1 Article

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

Open Access
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 othersTabury, K., Van Doninck, K., Van Hoey, O., Vogin, G. & Socol, Y., 2023, Space Radiobiology. Baatout, S. (ed.). Springer, Cham, p. 503-569
Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Open Access
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Breaking bad? How bdelloid rotifers A. vaga cope with extreme level of radiation and microgravity?
Hespeels, B., Heuskin, A-C., BAUMLE, VERONIQUE., BOPP, CECILE., Antoine, C., Sylvestre, M., Moreels, M., Baatout, S., Van Doninck, K. & Lucas, S., 2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

1 Active
4 Finished

RISE-LARN 2024-2025: Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga: a new eukaryotic extremophile model organism to study the impact of radiation and micro-gravity on biological processes
Heuskin, A.
1/01/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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
RISE: RISE-LARN 2022 2023: Bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga: a new eukaryotic extremophile model organism to study the impact of radiation and microgravity on biological processes
Heuskin, A., Lucas, S. & Coos, R.
1/01/22 → 31/12/23
Project: Research

2 Participation in conference

ESC2RAD workshop
Anne-Catherine Heuskin (Participant)
1 Jun 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
63rd annual Congress of the Radiation Research Society
Anne-Catherine Heuskin (Poster)
15 Oct 2017 → 18 Oct 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Synthesis, Irradiation and Analysis of Materials (SIAM)
Pierre Louette (Manager), Julien Colaux (Manager), Alexandre Felten (Manager), Tijani Tabarrant (Operator), Frederic COME (Operator) & Paul-Louis Debarsy (Manager)
Technological Platform Synthesis, Irradiation and Analysis of Materials
Facility/equipment: Technological Platform

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, Karine Van Doninck, Jeremie Bailly & Valerie Cornet
21/04/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment