Ghent University has a long tradition in nematology research and education. Lectures are given by professors from Ghent, but the course also invites many visiting professors. Hereunder is the core-staff of EUMAINE:

Prof. Dr. Wilfrida Decraemer

Coordinator of EUMAINE.
Director of the Postgraduate International Nematology Course (PINC)
Part-time professor at UGent (Faculties of Sciences)
Senior Scientist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Chairman of the Nematology Educational Committee.
Chairman of the Nematology Examination Committee
E-mail: wilfrida.decraemer@ugent.be

Her research focuses on the systematics (based on microscopy and molecular data), morphology (light microscopy and ultrastructure), phylogeny, zoogeography of plant-parasitic nematodes, more specifically of the virus vector families Trichodoridae and Longidoridae. She also studies the taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny of free-living nematodes, more specifically of marine nematode taxa such as Desmoscolecida, Epsilonematidae and Draconematidae. She is author of a book on Trichodoridae and author/co-author of 10 book chapters and more than 140 refereed papers in scientific journals.
 

Nic Smol

EUMAINE assistant-course coordinator
Coordinator Postgraduate International Nematology Course
scientific co-worker
E-mail: nic.smol@ugent.be
She is secretary of the Nematology Educational Committee and Examination Committee; and representative of the Nematology Course in the Facular Centre for Internationalization, and study coach for the Nematology students. Drs. N. Smol started working as a meiobenthologist, specializing on nematodes in 1973 at the Marine Biology Section of the University of Ghent. Her research dealt with the taxonomy, ecology and population dynamics of free-living marine and brackish water nematodes. She investigated habitats such as a brackish water pond in Belgium, the Oosterschelde in the Netherlands and a TiO2-dumpingsite in the North Sea. In 1992, she became coordinator of the PINC and became involved in the teaching and leading the practical exercises of the courses "Nematode Morphology, General Techniques, General systematics, Systematics of Chromadoria & Enoplia and Seminars and networking. She is co-promoter of the VLIR-OI-project IMABE which investigates the benthos of the CanGio mangrove in Vietnam (www.imabe.org.vn)

Inge Dehennin

Administrative, logistic and moral support for the EUMAINE programme, the Postgraduate International Nematology Course, the VLIR-OI-ENCHIBE and VLIR-OI-ESCIP.
E-mail: inge.dehennin@ugent.be