Callaerts Lab - Lab of Behavioral and Developmental Genetics

05/05/2022

Check out this video from one of our collaborators, Victoria, about her behavioral experiments in mice!

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11/02/2020

Mirna, one of our previous Master students, made a short video showcasing some of the best Drosophila boxing, lunging and tussling!

29/05/2019

Last week the Callaerts Lab went to Namur for our lab retreat. Two days of visiting the city, eating delicious food topped with a healthy sprinkle of scientific discussion.

We all had a blast and will definitely be repeated in the future!

18/05/2019

On Friday we said goodbye to Valeria who joined us for a 2.5 month internship. As a goodbye, she brought some delicious Italian cheese! We hope to see you again Valeria!

18/02/2019

Tom recently graduated after doing his Master thesis with us and has started working as a technician in our lab! To celebrate he brought donuts!

Congrats Tom!

25/01/2017

En voor de Nederlandstaligen, hoe geluid agressie bij de fruitvlieg beïnvloedt: http://nieuws.kuleuven.be/node/17488

KU Leuven

25/01/2017

Marijke's paper describing the important role that hearing plays in aggression is now out in PNAS
dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605946114

National Academy of Sciences

09/12/2016

It's great to have such awesome and enthusiastic rotation students like Max and Inge running around the lab again!

06/09/2016

Liesbeth & Tim's paper describing the complex role of Semaphorin-1a signaling in mushroom body development is out:
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2016.00210

Correct wiring of the mushroom body neuropil in the Drosophila brain involves appropriate positioning of different axonal lobes, as well as the sister branches that develop from individual axons. This positioning requires the integration of various guidance cues provided by different cell types, whi...

28/07/2016

Elke just dropped by to let us know that there are Pokémons in our lab.

27/07/2016

"Current thinking on how we develop, our behaviour, ageing and evolution are all built on the foundation of fruit fly research. The more we study them the more similar we discover we are: 75% of human disease genes have a recognisable match in the common fruit fly."

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160613-how-the-humble-fruit-fly-is-answering-lifes-big-questions?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter

This tiny insect, which most of us brush aside from the fruit bowl, has been responsible for some of the greatest discoveries in modern science

28/06/2016

Congratulations to Kiliana, who successfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday evening. Next stop - post-doc in New Zealand. Good luck, Dr. Bekelaar!