Projects
Bacterial leaf symbiosis in tropical Rubiaceae: origin, (co-)evolution and function. University of Antwerp
Integration of Underutilized Ashes into Material Cycles by Industry-Urban Symbiosis Ghent University
Industrial Symbiosis in Discrete Manufacturing:Â Opportunities for material efficiency improvement KU Leuven
In the framework of a large scale project with a number of industrial partners and sector organisations, this doctoral research will be focused on in depth study of the environmental impact associated with additive manufacturing processes, with specific attention for polymer oriented AM processes. For this purpose can be started from a methodological framework for systematic impact analysis of manufacturing processes in general as conceived ...
Material, energy and water management in industrial parks: industrial symbiosis. (POL/001/07). KU Leuven
Dysbiosis of the human gut ecosystem: characterization and remediation KU Leuven
In recent years, the importance of the microbiota in the
gastrointestinal tract with regards to host health and wellbeing has
been established. Microbiologists have categorized different
microbial community constellations across individuals called
enterotypes. The Bacteroides2 (B2) enterotype has been very
recently associated with low bacterial load, inflammatory disease,
and poor health ...
Quantitative Metagenomics: use of bacterial strains as internal standards for the analysis of faecal microbials. KU Leuven
Recent technological advances (next-generation sequencing) have enabled new approaches in microbial ecosystem research, including metagenomics: random shotgun sequencing of total DNA from environmental or clinical samples. These developments provided the opportunity to study and monitor various microbial communities associated to the human body at a previously unseen scale, allowing the phylogenetic assessment of the uncultivable fraction of ...
Bacterial EV - BEV Ghent University
The specific objectives of this IOF project are: (1) further development of results in support of patent applications, (2) further validation of the use of bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEV) as a diagnostic marker for permeability and dysbiosis of the intestine in a larger cohort of HIV patients and cancer patients treated with radiotherapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy, (3) bioinformatics analysis of the microbial dysbiosis data and of ...
Emerging bacterial food safety risks: the Campylobacter-Proteus-Escherichia test case Ghent University
The World Health Organization reports that more than 70% of characterized emerging infectious agents have zoonotic transmission. For emerging bacterial pathogens, transmission via food of animal origin must be taken into account. However, with current analysis methods and strategies in clinical and food microbiology, these are not picked up. Causes of this are the introduction of culture-independent methods that often have insufficient ...