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Microbially Induced Mineralisation of Wood for Improved Fire Resistance
Wood is the only renewable construction material and holds great promise for sustainable built environments of the future. However, its combustibility is a major limitation.The dra...
Dissection of the Interactome and the Regulatory Network of the Dual-Function Transcription Factor Ying Yang 1, a Master Regulator of Plant Stress Responses and Development
Climate change and increasing exposure to environmental stress make adaptation and defence responses to one of the most significant factors for crop yield and quality.At molecular...
Implementing Legislation on Invasive Alien Species: Investigating socio-cultural attitudes in the management of Invasive Alien Species in EU member countries
ILIAS investigates how socio-cultural, affective and scientific perceptions shape the implementation of EU laws for the prevention and management of invasive alien animal and plant...
Neural basis of rhythm categorization: how does the brain make sense of musical rhythm?
When we listen to music, recognizing a well-known rhythmic pattern and moving our body along seems like a natural and effortless task.Yet, these widespread human abilities are far...
Identifying factors of resistance and susceptibility to dengue virus infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Emerging infectious diseases represent a global health problem, as demonstrated by the Covid-19 pandemic.Among them, viral pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes represent a growing t...
Characterizing the chromatin landscape of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in response to AAV9 mediated gene therapy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder in children, characterized by motor neuron loss and atrophy of muscle. However, SMA affects many organ systems,...
Using Adoptees and Personality to Re-Examine Neighbourhood Effects on Important Life Outcomes
Childhood outcomes across a range of domains are correlated with the socio-economic characteristics of the child’s neighbours. Yet, work on the topic is dominated by observational...
An integrated experimental and mathematical approach to investigating endothelial barrier integrity in health and cerebral malaria
The integrity of the endothelial barrier is vital for maintaining healthy brain function and is especially compromised in pathological conditions such as cerebral malaria.Despite i...
Monitor Multiple Sclerosis evolution using body fluids derive cell-free epigenomics
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects 2.8 patients worldwide, 700000 in Europe alone, and is characterized by subsequent phases of different severity which eventually evolve into a chron...
Rural Economy and Peasant Dispossession in the Ottoman Balkans: Landed estates (çiftliks) in Manastır
RuralDispossession investigates Ottoman privately-owned landed estates (çiftliks) in the late 18th and late 19th century. These estates were crucial to the Ottoman (and post-Ottoma...
Accurate Computational Tools for Biomolecular Vibrational Spectroscopy (ActBio)
Vibrational spectroscopy has evolved into many branches and proved to be increasingly efficient in studies of biomolecules and their functions in living organisms.To further increa...
Plasticity of nuclear cycling in response to the environment
The traditional view of proliferation in eukaryotic cells maintains that genome duplication is followed by cellular division into two new daughter cells, each containing its own nu...
Influence of Fluctuating Temperatures on Aedes invasive Mosquitoes Ecophysiology and Distribution
The East Asian mosquitoes species Aedes albopictus and Ae. koreicus are invading several European countries, posing an increasing threat to human and animal public health.The life...
Advanced nanospectroscopy for mapping local conductivity in conductive metal-organic framework
NAPOLEON’s main objective is the development and demonstration of mapping ultra-broadband optical conductivity of novel conductive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) by infrared nanos...
Understanding the Interaction of T cells and Immune Complexes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with a complex pathogenesis. Immune complexes (ICs) are formed and deposited in various tissues, leading to inflammation...
Queer(y)ing Psychoanalysis: Radical French Thought and LGBTIQ Politics from the 1970s Onwards
Since their inception in the early 1970s, radical LGBTIQ movements and scholarship in France have developed a multi-faceted critique of normative psychoanalysis and its role in sha...
Re-exposure Effect in Bilinguals under Language Development (REBUILD)-The Acquisition of Heritage Language in Returnee Children and Mutual Effects of Experience and Cognition
Many (immigrant) children are heritage speakers (HSs; bilinguals who acquire a minority language at home, different from the majority societal language in which they are growing up...
Marseille and the (Im-)Mobilities of Black Maritime Workers in the African Mediterranean
“Marseille and the (Im-)Mobilities of Black Maritime Workers in the African Mediterranean” (MIBWAM) is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral project dedicated to illuminating Afri...
Multilingual Acquisition and Processing: Heritage Russian in Spain
Recent research highlights a need of deeper understanding of the nature of language competence and the development of this competence under heritage language bi- and multilingualis...
The Academia Secretorum Naturae : magic, secrets and instruments of experimental science in the sixteenth-century Naples
This two-year EF will bring me at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where I will be supervised by Prof. Marco Sgarbi.The overall aim of the project is to provide the f...