MICROPLASTICS AS A VECTOR OF PATHOGENS CONTAMINATION, INFECTION AND RESISTANCE: A CASE OF Campylobacter IN POULTRY PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING

Cross Talk of Fungi and Mycotoxins with Their Plants and Human Hosts

Doctoral project Chao Wang

Doctoral project Urmila Khulal

Food safety aspects of microbial cargo on microplastic particles: virulence, toxin production, antibiotic resistance and interactions.

Occurrence of microcystin congeners in surface waters and food in Belgium as a source of exposure to humans

Toxigenic Bacillus cereus in food: Towards a better risk assessment by means of genomic, transcriptomic and toxin production analyses

Biostability of drinking water systems: from online monitoring to microbial quality management

Doctoral project Katrien Begyn

Doctoral project Marlies Decleer

Doctoral project Sigrid Durinck

Doctoral project Vincent Ornelis

Genomic Risk Assessment and Extrinsic Property Analysis of Bacillus cereus in Pasteurised Plant Based Products

The role of micro- and nanoplastics in antibiotic resistance and horizontal gene transfer in the marine environment.

An innovative analytical platform to investigate the effect and toxicity of micro and nano plastics combined with environmental contaminants on the risk of allergic disease

BOF-ZAP professorship in food safety

BOF-ZAP professorship in food science and human nutrition

Combined dual transcriptomic, proteomic and functional investigations to reveal host-pathogen interactions behind the virulence of foodborne pathogen Bacillus cereus

Combined dual transcriptomic, proteomic and functional investigations to reveal host-pathogen interactions behind the virulence of foodborne pathogen Bacillus cereus

Impact of environmental pollution on proteome and allergome profyles of shellfish

Microbial and chemical food safety of microplastics and nanoplastic

MICRO-TOX: Unravelling the in vitro toxic effects of the mycotoxin beauvericin, bacterial toxin cereulide and cyanobacterial microcystins, and their interactions with co-exposed microplastics

Modulation of molecular signaling to control the virulence of foodborne Clostridium perfringens

Synthetic Antibodies as innovative receptors in sample pretreatment and diagnostics applied to emerging toxic cyclic depsipeptides in the food chain

The Seahorse XFe96 analyzer to decipher cellular bioenergetics and mitochondrial dysfunction after exposure to food and environmental stressors.

Twinning of research activities for the frontier research in the field of food, nutrition and environmental 'omics'

Managing biostability and biosafety of water for the food production chain

Multi-color flow cytometry for applied biological research

BOF-ZAP professorship in food safety

BOF-ZAP professorship in food science and human nutrition

Combined exposure to (sub)clinical concentrations of foodborne bacterial toxins

Virulence factors of Bacillus cereus and host-pathogen interactions