Projects
'PRIMA - towards personalized dietary recommendations based on the interaction between diet, Microbiome and Abiotic conditions in the gut - How dietary factors affect the human microbiome - Stage II Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Differential effect of exercise on fecal microbiome and metabolomic fingerprint of fecal microbiome and skeletal muscle in the equine athlete Ghent University
Horse owners are well aware that their horses’ welfare influences their performance potential and health and thus proper training and conditioning is of great importance. However, at this point, available fitness monitoring techniques such as measuring bl
Brains (Back) to Brussels 2009 - Verankering : Systems-level analysis of the human microbiome in health and disease. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Systems-level analysis of the human microbiome in health and disease Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Recent technological advances such as metagenomics and next-generation sequencing permit, for the first time, to ...
Nutritional needs of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and the role of the gut microbiome KU Leuven
The honey bee population is currently facing various challenges, including pesticides, the parasitic mite Varroa destructor, and a reduction in available food sources. In beekeeping practices, food supplementation is used to support the health, strength, and winter survival of bee colonies. The nutritional needs of honey bees vary depending on their life stage or role within the colony. Research indicates the existence of caste-specific ...
Daphnia: from ecological to biomedical microbiome model in the context of hypoxia KU Leuven
Host-associated microbiomes relate to the microbiota that live inside and on the surfaces of hosts. The microbial community is not a random collection of organisms but is the result of complex interactions between microbiota within the host and between the host and the microbiota. These interactions are mediated by host physiology and environmental factors. The host-associated microbiota is currently considered as a novel factor in host ...
Health monitoring through population-level gut microbiome profiling KU Leuven
The human intestinal microbiota has in recent years come forward as a primary target for health monitoring and modulation. Multiple research teams are rushing forward studying microbiota shifts in major diseases to identify diagnostic markers and assess disease pathogenesis. However, a sobering fact remains that the natural variation and dynamics of the gut microbiome are greatly understudied. The Flemish Gut Flora Project (FGFP) is a ...
The effect of industrialization on the multi-domain gut microbiome across time and geography KU Leuven
The human microbiota is a rich ecological system that consists of a diverse assembly of bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses particular to each niche of the human body. The most biodiverse and heavily populated microbial ecosystem in the human body is the gut. This project sets the grounds of a bigger initiative to stablish a longterm observatory: The Microbial Observatory of Industrialization (MOI), aiming to characterize the dynamics ...
Biogeographical analysis of gut microbiome KU Leuven
To better understand the various roles of the human gut microbiota and its relation with the physiology of the host, it is necessary to characterize the human gut microbiota in different niches along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and explore the transitions in community composition along its different compartments. The variability in the microbiome along the GI tract may be due to several factors, among which are the physiological ...