Department of Morphology

< Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Personnel

• Paul Simoens
• Wim Van den Broeck, Annemie Decostere
• 10 PhD students and scientific co-workers

Activities

The main research expertise of the Department of Morphology is focused on the functional morphology of the lymphoid and vascular systems in domestic animals. Very recently, the group started a collaboration with the UGent Aquaculture R&D Center, studying the development of Artemia and sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) larvae, reared in xenic and axenic conditions. This model allows in-depth study of the influence of probiotics on the development of Artemia and sea bass larvae. For this research, the following facilities are available: 1) light microscopy unit (histology laboratory for tissue processing, embedding and making paraffin sections; immunohistochemical analysis; different research microscopes), 2) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) unit (TEM laboratory for tissue processing, embedding and making ultra thin plastic sections), 3) scanning electron microscopy (SEM) unit (SEM laboratory for critical point drying and coating of tissues, SEM microscope), 4) software for image analysis and 3-D reconstruction.

Contact

• Websites
  • http://www.ugent.be/di
• email:
  • Paul.Simoens@UGent.be
  • Wim.VandenBroeck@UGent.be
  • Annemie.Decostere@UGent.be

• tel: +32 9 264 77 11
• fax: +32 9 264 77 90

• Mailing address:
  • Department of Morphology, UGent, Salisburylaan 133, B-9820 Merelbeke, Belgium