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Professor Lynn Vanhaecke

School of Biological Sciences

Professor Lynn Vanhaecke

School of Biological Sciences

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.

Contact info

  • askmhls@qub.ac.uk

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • 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.

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Research students

PhD Title Red and processed meat in the diet: toxicological and metabolomic profiling under simulated gastrointestinal conditions
Country Belgium
   
PhD Title  Discovery of metabolite biomarkers for early diagnosis of cow’s milk allergy
Country  Belgium 
   
PhD Title  Early detection of intestinal fibrosis in patient’s with Crohn’s disease: a necessity to initiate a clinical trial
Country  Belgium
   
PhD Title  The impact of stress on physiology, emotion regulation and food choices in adolescents: a laboratory intervention study 
Country Belgium
   
PhD Title Boosting the production of innovative bola amphiphiles by applying integrated omics analyses
Country Belgium
   
PhD Title Rectal sampling and ambient ionization-based metabolomics for point-of-care precision medicine in children
Country Belgium

 

 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of equine infectious joint disease
Country Belgium
Current Position Scientific Coordinator at Quality Control cv
   
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
   
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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