Welcome to the Protistology & Aquatic Ecology Website


This website offers information on Laboratory of Protistology & Aquatic Ecology.

Diatom The research group for Protistology and Aquatic Ecology of the Department of Biology of the Ghent University studies the diversity, taxonomy and biogeography of protists. More...

Core The group is involved in many interuniversity, national and international monitoring and research projects.
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In the lab The PAE lab maintains a Diatom Culture Collection. Over 175 strains are currently available. More...

HPLC The PAE research facilities consist of a.o. a scanning electron microscope, an hplc, a GC/MS, culture rooms, ... and provides service to other labs and institutes. More...
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latest update: december 8th, 2011


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Diatom
Culture Collection
The Diatom Culture Collection is part of the BCCM consortium..

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22nd Internation Diatom Symposium hosted in Ghent by PAE .
26-31 August 2012.

Publications in the spotlight

Huysman MJ, Martens C, Vandepoele K, et al. Genome-wide analysis of the diatom cell cycle unveils a novel type of cyclins involved in environmental signaling. Genome biology. 2010 11(2)

Bowler, C., et al (2008). The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the dynamic nature and multi-lineage evolutionary history of diatom genomes. Nature 456(7219): 239-244.