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Researcher
Nico Boon
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01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015
Abatement of membrane fouling caused by transparent exopolymer particle (TEP) with nanopaticles.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2022
Antiseptic induced oral microbial massacres: a fast-food feast for oral pathogens?
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 August 2015 → 31 July 2019
Assembly of synthetic microbial collaboromes for the valorisation of recoverd nutrients into biomass
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 November 2023 → 31 October 2026
BE-HyStore - Underground H2 storage at Loenhout
01 July 2018 → 31 October 2020
Biological nitrogen fixation with hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria for food or feed production
Fellow: Xiaona Hu
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2020 → 30 September 2023
Biometallurgy of critical raw materials: microbial affinity and sequestration from liquid streams
Fellow: Karel Folens
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2020 → 30 September 2024
BIOSTABLE: safe drinking water now and in the future
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Biotreatment of drinking water resources polluted by pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2016
BISTRO - Melissa Bioprocess Recovery after Space flight
Funding: European funding: various
01 January 2021 → 31 December 2023
CalidAmmox: Thermophilic partial nitritation/anammox for sustainable nitrogen removal from wastewater
Fellow: Mingsheng Jia
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 July 2017 → 30 June 2018
CNN2
Funding: European funding: various
01 January 2015 → 31 October 2021
Collaboromics: identifying and engineering core and satellite populations in (synthetic) microbial ecosystems
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Construction and applications of microbial precipitated silver nano
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2022 → 30 September 2024
Corrosion by Microbes: management in industrial conditions (COMIC)
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2010
Development of a high-pressure bioreactor to study the deep-sea biosphere
Fellow: Yu Zhang
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 June 2009 → 31 May 2011
Development of a module to study the gut biofilm formation and the host-microbiota interaction (Type 2)
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2015
Development of nanosilver materials for the biological control of drinking water quality
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2018
Development of thermophilic biotechnology for nitrogen removal
Fellows: Tom Vandekerckhove
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 November 2017 → 31 October 2021
Double phd degree Justyna Anna Barys
Fellows: Justyna Barys
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
Drinking Water Distribution Network (DWDN) biomes: detecting the effect of changing environments in the occurrence of problematic bacterial strains linked to the presence of higher organisms.
Fellow: Thomas Pluym
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2022
Electricity driven Low Energy and Chemical input Technology foR Accelerated bioremediation
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2021
Finding highly productive hydrogen-oxidizing synthetic communities through isolation, combination and prediction.
Fellow: Wannes Nauwynck
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2019 → 31 December 2023
Finding highly productive hydrogen-oxidizing synthetic communities through isolation, combination and prediction.
Fellow: Wannes Nauwynck
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2017
Flow Cytometric fingerprinting microbial quality
Fellow: Benjamin Buysschaert
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 April 2010 → 31 March 2014
FOODRESIST: risk of induction and transfer of antibiotic resistance during food production and storage
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 October 2017 → 31 March 2021
For CCN5 proposal and Integration of the MELiSSA Pilot Plant - Subcontracting
Funding: European funding: various
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
Hydrogenotrophic Driven Biodegradation of Organic Micropollutants Involving Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria
Fellow: Baiqing Liu
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 February 2020 → 28 May 2021
Innovative follow-up strategy for yeast-driven fermentations
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2023
integrated science approach to Risk and Management
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2016
Kill Spill
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 March 2012 → 28 February 2016
Low/cost recovery of reclaimed water from sewage mixed industrial effluents
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2022
Managing biostability and biosafety of water for the food production chain
Fellow: Jorien Favere
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2010 → 31 December 2015
Managing ecosystem functioning by steering microbial community structure and dynamics.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 September 2013 → 31 August 2017
MERMAID : Microbial Resource Management for Closing the Urban Water Cycle
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2012
Metabolic potency of human intestinal microbiota towards ingested arsenic and consequences for microbe-host interactions
Fellow: Tom Van de Wiele
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 February 2016 → 31 January 2020
Metal Recovery from Low Grade Ores and Wastes (METGROW+)
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2022
Microbial Chip to Capture, Analyse and Steer communities (MICCAS)
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Microbial community engineering
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2013
Microbial community evolution and functional dynamics in anaerobic bioreactors for the sustainable production of green energy
Fellow: Inka Vanwonterghem
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2015 → 31 December 2018
Microbial community fingerprinting as a biological indicator for pathogen outgrowth in engineered aquatic systems
Fellows: Ruben Props
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 August 2023 → 30 November 2023
Microbial flow cytometry for medical applications: modulation of the oral microbiome
Fellow: Fabian Mermans
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2024 → 31 May 2024
Microbial interactions in hydrogen-oxydizing communities
Fellow: Wannes Nauwynck
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 August 2012 → 31 July 2016
Microbial managed organic substrates for horticulture
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 November 2021 → 31 October 2025
Microbial management of unwanted odor compounds in drinking water.
Fellow: Fien Waegenaar
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 31 December 2017
Microbial Resource Management (MRM) in engineered and natural ecosystems
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Microbial resource management of aquaculture ecosystems to prevent pathogen invasion
Fellow: Jasmine Heyse
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Microbiologically Induced Air-purifying and Self-regenerating Building Material
Funding: Private funding via IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2009 → 26 February 2015
Mitigation of anthropogenic N2O emissions
Fellow: Joachim Desloover
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
15 December 2022 → 14 December 2024
Multi-color flow cytometry for applied biological research
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2015
Multi-controlled bioreactors for thermophilic nitrogen removal
Fellow: Siegfried Vlaeminck
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Nutrient-mediated modulation of the oral microbiology
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
15 January 2019 → 14 July 2021
On-time microbial community management through flow cytometric characterization (KYTOS)
Funding: Regional and community funding: Industrial Research Fund
01 October 2019 → 30 September 2022
Phylogenomic basis of phenotypic diversity in freshwater bacterial communities.
Fellow: Ruben Props
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 February 2009 → 31 January 2012
Physiological fingerprinting by flow cytometry
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as a tool for microbial resource management
Fellow: Francis Meerburg
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
15 October 2016 → 15 July 2020
Preparing nitrogen recycling processes in the MELISSA loop for operation in microgravity conditions by novel process control and sensoring
Fellows: Jolien De Paepe
Funding: Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
01 March 2012 → 31 August 2013
Quantification of biogas production potential of organic by-products for industrial use
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
Radical-based Enzymatic Degradation of Organic Pollutants (REDOP)
Fellow: Astrid Rombouts
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Recycling of critical metals by granular biomass
Fellow: Synthia Maes
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2012 → 05 December 2014
removal of micropollutants from water using a combination of electrochemical sorption/desorption and biogenic nanoparticles.
Fellow: Tom Hennebel
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 September 2008 → 31 August 2012
RESEARCH TRAINING FOR GOOD EUROPEAN GROUNDWATER RESOURCES
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 February 2024 → 31 January 2029
ROPSAM - Potential of contaminant degradation by specific (clusters of) microbiota
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 February 2024 → 31 January 2025
Self-healing in lime based mortars
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2020 → 30 September 2024
SmartDetox - Removal of organic micropollutants from water
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 March 2017 → 28 February 2021
SMART: sustainable metal extraction from tailings
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 February 2017 → 31 August 2017
Subcontracting agreement with UGent for the COO4 to the Contract Maintenance and Opersation of the MELISSA Pilot Plant for the period 2013-2016
Funding: European funding: various
01 January 2021 → 31 January 2025
Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2020
The anaerobic digestion microbiome: from ecology to process control
Fellows: Jo De Vrieze
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
The biological control of oral biofilms using Bdellovibrio
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 05 January 2016
The biological recovery of nitrogen nutrients from low strength wastestreams
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2017
The development of mainstream partial nitritation / anammox as a final step to an energy-positive water treatment
Fellow: Dries Seuntjens
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Transition management of bacterial and archaeal nitrification
Fellow: Emilie Courtens
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 February 2011 → 31 January 2014
Unravelling and exploiting Mediterranean Sea microbial diversity and ecology for Xenobiotics' and pullutants clean up
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2016 → 31 December 2017
URINIS
Funding: European funding: various
As
Copromotor
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2020
Anaerobic granules for biogas and carboxylate production from saline wastewaters: high-throughput monitoring and engineering
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 May 2020 → 30 April 2024
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) - nanobiotechnology based platform for achieving the dynamics of individual molecules to versatile materials and cell mechanics
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 July 2018 → 30 September 2021
Autonomous self-healing in concrete induced by multiple bacterial metabolic pathways
Fellow: Xuejiao Zhu
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 March 2010 → 29 February 2012
Biodeposition and biological lime mortars for the (restoration-) building practice: proof of principle and upscaling (type 3)
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2013
Cementitious materials with selfhealing properties by using bacteria, polymers or pozzolans
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2022 → 09 October 2023
Developing luminescent probes for on-site water quality assessment
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 August 2010 → 31 July 2011
Development of a 5-step treatment for the purification of waste water aquaculture
Funding: Regional and community funding: Industrial Research Fund
01 October 2009 → 31 March 2013
Development of an air purification strategy with microbially precipitated nanocatalysts.
Fellow: Simon De Corte
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Development of efficient and reliable microbial-based self-healing concrete.
Fellow: Jianyun Wang
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2014
Development of novel anti-inflammatory strains to counterbalance dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disorders
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 October 2007 → 31 January 2015
EPS management in the OLAND process
Fellow: Siegfried Vlaeminck
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
Fermentative granules for bio-production: from mechanisms of biofilm formation to real wastewater application
Fellow: Barbara Ulčar
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2010
Gas chromatograph for high performance analysis of permanent gasses
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 July 2014 → 30 June 2018
Impact of Self-Healing Engineered materials on steel corrosion in reinforced Concrete
Funding: Private funding via IWT/VLAIO
01 May 2022 → 30 April 2026
Integrated versatile platform for sample preparation, 2D gas chromatographic separation and Orbitrap mass spectrometric identification and quantification of (semi-)volatile organic compounds in environmental, food and biological samples
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2012
Living plants in microbial fuel cells for clean, renewable, sustainable, efficient, in-situ bioenergy production
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2011 → 17 April 2016
Mechanistic aspects of poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate interference in host-microbe interactions during larval development of asuaculture animals
Fellow: Peter De Schryver
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 February 2009 → 30 April 2013
Microbes as positive actors for more sustainable aquaculture
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 November 2023 → 31 October 2026
Microbial exodus as indicator for ecosystem stability
Fellow: Josefien Van Landuyt
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Microbially steered removal of REACH micropollutants in wastewater
Fellow: Bart De Gusseme
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Microbial precipitated Bio-Pd and Bio-Mn nanocrystals for the chemical transformation of halogenated contaminants
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2013
Probiont-induced functional responses in aquatic organisms
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2012
Relation between inflammation of the gut and arthritis in spondyloarthropathy: cellular mechanisms and therapeutical implications
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 July 2014 → 31 March 2018
Research that contributes to the quantification of the risk to humans of antimicrobial resistance transmission through the commensal microbiota present in foods
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 December 2020 → 30 November 2022
Single-cell based analysis and sorting to study microbial (sub)populations.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 February 2009 → 31 January 2013
Sunlight: Lipid-based, high value products and renewable energy from microalgae
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 January 2023 → 31 December 2024
Sustainable ectoine production through methanotrophs and algae: from biogas to high-value product (EctoMet)
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2015
Sustainable methanotrophs: from ecology to microbial resource management
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2010 → 30 November 2010
The role of aerobic nitrifying bacteria in organic contaminents removal
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
The role of bacteria in copepod feeding behavior to steer the energy flow at the basis of marine food webs
Fellow: Bram Martin
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2015
Training Network for Self-Healing Materials: from Concepts to Market
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 May 2022 → 30 April 2026
Ultrafast-scanning tandem ICP-mass spectrometer for interference-free and highly-sensitive transient signal monitoring
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 April 2014 → 31 March 2017
Unicum - Additional unit for increased water loop closure
Funding: European funding: various
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Use of electricity for fermentation control and biochemicals production
Fellow: Sylvia Gildemyn
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
As
Researcher
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2025
Does the altered rumen microbiome of eco-friendlier cows cause more metabolic stress?
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2024 → 30 September 2028
Exploring and understanding the microbiome of the deep sea: a step towards the bioremediation of dumped munitions
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2019 → 31 December 2025
Strategic Institutional Partnership University of Queensland
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund