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October 17, 2018
Math thesis wins two awards
Adrien Taylor’s UCLouvain PhD thesis on optimisation, a branch of applied mathematics, earned two research awards, including the FNRS-IBM Innovation Award.
Optimisation is about finding the best way – depending on your criteria – to reach or at least get as close as...
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October 12, 2018
Health
A ninth tower serves as a bridge
On 12 October, the UCLouvain campus in Woluwe will inaugurate a new multipurpose building. Built next to the Saint-Luc University Hospital, the Laennec Tower will house the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC) and the Academic Centre for General Medicine (CAMG). Designed as a...
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October 11, 2018
Sexual reproduction: the mysteries of meiosis
Dr Corentin Claeys Bouuaert has received an ERC starting grant. This prestigious European funding will help him continue his research on the DNA biochemistry of sexual reproduction.
There are two modes of cell division in nature: mitosis and meiosis. Mitosis is the classic division that...
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October 11, 2018
A bacterium that preys on…bacteria
Dr Géraldine Laloux has received an ERC Starting Grant. This prestigious European funding will help her continue research on a small bacterium with an atypical life cycle.
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is a strange little bacterium with an atypical life cycle. ‘It attacks...
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October 11, 2018
The eye and the pen
Dr Anne Reverseau is now Research Associate FNRS at UCLouvain. Thanks to this permanent research position she will continue her research on the (close) relationships that many writers have had with images, from the end of the 19th century to the present day.
In France, Dr Reverseau...
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