Researcher
Abram Aertsen
- Disciplines:Other chemical sciences, Microbiology, Systems biology, Biomaterials engineering, Biological system engineering, Biomechanical engineering, Other (bio)medical engineering, Environmental engineering and biotechnology, Industrial biotechnology, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering, Laboratory medicine, Nutrition and dietetics, Agricultural animal production, Food sciences and (bio)technology
Affiliations
- Food and Microbial Technology (CLMT) (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → 30 Sep 2022 - Centre for Food and Microbial Technology (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2005 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 40
- Management of intracellular protein aggregates in stressed bacteriaFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Understanding phage transmission dynamicsFrom1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Understanding and engineering phage infection dynamicsFrom18 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Next-generation bioprocess engineering: phage-based synthetic reprogramming of bacterial bioreactor populationsFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Parallel mini-bioreactor system boosting human microbial community and phage-biology and -biotechnology researchFrom1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: BOF - scientific equipment program
- Evolutionary strategies for fine-tuning the heat resistance vs. growth trade-off in Escherichia coliFrom1 Dec 2020 → 31 Oct 2021Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Bacterial protein aggregates as novel tools in synbio applications.From1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Phage Transmission StrategiesFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Molecular elucidation of the evolutionary success of Salmonella Kentucky ST198From24 Aug 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- HiTMan: a versatile and flexible high-throughput microbe handler for automation of complex experimental procedures and rapid phenotypic characterizationFrom1 May 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO Large scale research infrastructure
Publications
11 - 20 of 132
- Superinfection exclusion factors drive a history-dependent switch from vertical to horizontal phage transmission(2022)
Authors: Leon Bäcker, Sanne Wolput, Peter Goos, Rob Lavigne, Kristel Bernaerts, Abram Aertsen
- The expression of virulence genes increases membrane permeability and sensitivity to envelope stress in Salmonella Typhimurium(2022)
Authors: Alexander Cambré, Julien Mortier, Abram Aertsen
- Metabolic reprogramming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by phage-based quorum sensing modulation(2022)
Authors: Hanne Hendrix, Jeroen De Smet, Maries Lissens, Jeroen Wagemans, Abram Aertsen, Rob Lavigne
- High-Throughput Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy Screening for Heterogeneously Expressed Genes in Bacillus subtilis(2022)
Authors: Stefanie Van Riet, Abram Aertsen
- Transcriptional Organization of the Salmonella Typhimurium Phage P22 pid ORFan Locus(2022)
Authors: Sanne Wolput, Laura Wicke, Leon Bäcker, Rob Lavigne, Abram Aertsen
- Erratum for Mortier and Gayán et al., "Gene Erosion Can Lead to Gain-of-Function Alleles That Contribute to Bacterial Fitness".(2021)
Authors: Julien Mortier, Elisa Gayán, Ronald Van Eyken, Oscar Enrique Torres Montaguth, Laleh Khodaparast, Ladan Khodaparast, Bert Houben, Sebastien Carpentier, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz, et al.
Pages: e0246721 - Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of Temperature-Induced Mutagenesis and Mortality in Cupriavidus metallidurans(2021)
Authors: Abram Aertsen
- Gene Erosion Can Lead to Gain-of-Function Alleles That Contribute to Bacterial Fitness(2021)
Authors: Julien Mortier, Ronald Van Eyken, Laleh Khodaparast, Ladan Khodaparast, Bert Houben, Sebastien Carpentier, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz, Abram Aertsen
- Bacteriophage-mediated interference of the c-di-GMP signalling pathway in Pseudomonas aeruginosa(2021)
Authors: Jeroen De Smet, Jeroen Wagemans, Hanne Hendrix, Annegrete Visnapuu, Benjamin Horemans, Abram Aertsen, Rob Lavigne
Pages: 967 - 978 - Bacillus weihenstephanensis can readily evolve for increased endospore heat resistance without compromising its thermotype(2021)
Authors: Tom Dongmin Kim, Sadhana Khanal, Chris Michiels, Abram Aertsen
Patents
1 - 2 of 2
- Novel dnase (Inventor)
- Novel dnase (Inventor)