In order to monitor the possible effect of (functional) foods, medication, toxic compounds, etc… on the microbial composition of the gastro-intestinal tract or to link (predispositions to) disease with the gut microbiota, fast powerful identification tools are essential. Nowadays,...
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All Projects running and past
Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Geert Huys
Funding partner: BOF-UGent
01/10/2010 to 30/04/2015
This project is centered around the theory that diet type, through its metabolic interaction with the intestinal microbiota, has a considerable impact on intestinal health and general well-being of captive cheetahs. It can be hypothesized that the degree of...
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Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Peter Vandamme
Funding partner: Herculesstichting
03/01/2014 to 03/01/2015
Infrastructure.
Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Paul De Vos
Funding partner: BOF-GOA
01/01/2009 to 31/12/2014
Methanotrophic bacteria play a vital role in reducing emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. These organisms are ubiquitous in nature and can use methane as sole carbon and energy source. This project focuses on the “microbial resource management” of methanotrophic communities. An...
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Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Anne Willems
Funding partner: FWO
01/01/2011 to 30/11/2014
This project is a collaboration with the Marine Biology research group (Biology Dept.) and will focus on marine coastal sediment foodwebs. We will investigate how functional biodiversity at the level of the larger, habitat-engineering macrobenthos will cascade into levels of biodiversity...
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Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Geert Huys
Funding partner: BOF-UGent
01/10/2010 to 30/09/2014
The overall aim of this project is to obtain a more profound insight in the interactions between functional components, namely the milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) fragments and the natural antioxidants (AOX), and the bacterial starter and probiotic cultures in model systems of...
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Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Paul De Vos
Funding partner: BOF-UGent
15/06/2012 to 14/06/2014
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Promotor(s): Prof. Dr. Paul De Vos
Funding partner: EC-FP7: VALORAM
01/02/2009 to 31/01/2014
The objectives of this project meet the call goals of exploring and valorizing Andean soil microbial diversity for the development of alternative eco-efficient technologies and crop management knowledge in order to improve the sustainability and productivity of Andean cropping systems...
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Funding partner: FWO
01/01/2011 to 31/12/2013
Denitrification is an enzymatically redundant process. Previous research showed that presence of known key genes encoding relevant enzymes for the process could not be demonstrated for the majority of Gram-positive denitrifiers. This project follows the hypothesis that novel, currently unknown...
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