Controlling oral biofilms through modulation of the commensal oral microbiota. An alternative for antiseptics?

Doctoral project Agathi Naka

Doctoral project Baiqing Liu

Doctoral project Bo Byloos

Combining biogenic palladium nanoparticles with an electrochemical system for optimization of synthesis and catalytic removal of micropollutants.

Doctoral project Emilie Courtens

Doctoral project Eva Van Meervenne

Doctoral project Eylem Dogan Subasi

Microbial flow cytometry reveals responses of the oral microbiota to antimicrobial treatment.

Biostability in drinking water distribution systems: impact of environmental factors and operational management

Doctoral project Filipe Bravo da Silva

Doctoral project Francis Meerburg

Towards Advanced Lime-Based Mortars: Exploring Microbial Self-healing and Carbonation Strategies.

Doctoral project Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof

Doctoral project Giovanni Ganendra

Doctoral project Gitte Loozen

Doctoral project Guillaume Henderson

Doctoral project Jan Schouppe

Doctoral project Joachim Desloover

Doctoral project Joeri Coppens

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

Doctoral project Joseba Andoni García Beaumont

Oil degrading bacteria at ambient and high pressure: from the ecology of a shipwreck to the bioaugmentation potential of synthetic communities

Doctoral project Karen De Roy

Doctoral project Liesje Sintubin

Doctoral project Linde Raport

Doctoral project Lorenzo Cimmino

Doctoral project Mofei Han

Doctoral project Mustafa Mert Tezer

Doctoral project Naiera Zayed

Doctoral project Nicole Hahn

Doctoral project Oliver Grunert

Doctoral project Pieter Verhagen

Doctoral project Sam Van Nevel

Doctoral project Silvio Matassa

Doctoral project Simon De Corte

Doctoral project Sofie De Vriendt

Doctoral project Synthia Maes

Doctoral project Tan Pham Duy

Enhanced microbial degradability of novel polymers in aquatic environments.

Doctoral project Vera Slomka

Doctoral project Vincenzo Maffione

Droplet microfluidics: a toolbox for microbial ecology

Identification and investigation of probiotics for oral biofilm management.

Doctoral project Xiaona Hu

Doctoral project Yusuf Cagatay Ersan

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.

Exploring factors that influence and enhance probiotic survival in- and colonization of the oral cavity.

Marine Bacterial Dynamics in TNT-Polluted Environments: A Comparative Analysis of North Sea Sediments and Munition Sites

Methanosaeta vs. Methanosarcina in anaerobic digestion: the quest for enhanced biogas production

Probing antibiotic residues and resistance transfer in aquatic environments

Radical-based Enzymatic Degradation of Organic Pollutants

Co-digestion of sewage sludge, animal manure and the organic fraction of municipal solid waste

The impact of the diversity of bacterial communities in aquaculture on invasion by pathogens

Combining carboxylic acid production and fibre recovery as an innovative, cost effective and sustainable pre-treatment process for heterogeneous bio-waste

Closing the feed loop: microbial protein production from biogas

Doctoral project Aisling Daly

Doctoral project Annelies Geirnaert

Doctoral project Athraa Al-Saadi

Doctoral project Bart De Gusseme

Doctoral project Bram Vekeman

Doctoral project Camille Petrognani

Doctoral project Celia Alvarez Fernandez

Doctoral project Christophe El Nakhel

Doctoral project Ebrahim Hossein Najdegerami

Biostability in drinking water distribution systems: impact of environmental factors and operational management

Doctoral project Ines Verbaendert

Organic waste valorisation to carboxylic acids through chain elongation processes.

Microbial alteration of natural building stones: mechanisms, identification and advances in visualization

Doctoral project Soetkin Barbaix

Doctoral project Xuan Li

Ecological risk assessment of micropollutants in relation to antibacterial and antifungal resistance in surface water

Extraction and characterization of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by microorganisms grown on acetate rich (waste) streams for new market applications

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.

In situ treatment technologies to prevent toxic cyanobacterial blooms in surface waters

Large-scale underground hydrogen storage in karst aquifers

Potential of contaminant degradation by specific (clusters of) microbiota

Stone conservation using micro-organisms

The Discovery of the shrimp nephrocomplex (revision of the antennal gland) and its role during WSSV-entry and the moulting process

Construction and applications of microbial precipitated silver nano

Assembly of synthetic microbial collaboromes for the valorisation of recoverd nutrients into biomass

BE-HyStore - Underground H2 storage at Loenhout

Unravelling and exploiting Mediterranean Sea microbial diversity and ecology for Xenobiotics' and pullutants clean up

Abatement of membrane fouling caused by transparent exopolymer particle (TEP) with nanopaticles.

Biotreatment of drinking water resources polluted by pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other micropollutants

Biological nitrogen fixation with hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria for food or feed production

Biometallurgy of critical raw materials: microbial affinity and sequestration from liquid streams

BIOSTABLE: safe drinking water now and in the future

BISTRO - Melissa Bioprocess Recovery after Space flight

CalidAmmox: Thermophilic partial nitritation/anammox for sustainable nitrogen removal from wastewater

CNN2

Collaboromics: identifying and engineering core and satellite populations in (synthetic) microbial ecosystems

Corrosion by Microbes: management in industrial conditions (COMIC)

The biological control of oral biofilms using Bdellovibrio

The biological recovery of nitrogen nutrients from low strength wastestreams

The development of mainstream partial nitritation / anammox as a final step to an energy-positive water treatment

Hydrating the city by combining heritage, natural and high-tech solutions for green-blue challenges

Finding highly productive hydrogen-oxidizing synthetic communities through isolation, combination and prediction.

Finding highly productive hydrogen-oxidizing synthetic communities through isolation, combination and prediction.

Double phd degree Justyna Anna Barys

Sustainable Building Lime Applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches

Electricity driven Low Energy and Chemical input Technology foR Accelerated bioremediation

Microbial community evolution and functional dynamics in anaerobic bioreactors for the sustainable production of green energy

Flow Cytometric fingerprinting microbial quality

FOODRESIST: risk of induction and transfer of antibiotic resistance during food production and storage

Phylogenomic basis of phenotypic diversity in freshwater bacterial communities.

Physiological fingerprinting by flow cytometry

integrated science approach to Risk and Management

The anaerobic digestion microbiome: from ecology to process control

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.

Hydrogenotrophic Driven Biodegradation of Organic Micropollutants Involving Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria

Innovative follow-up strategy for yeast-driven fermentations

Kill Spill

Low/cost recovery of reclaimed water from sewage mixed industrial effluents

Quantification of biogas production potential of organic by-products for industrial use

Managing ecosystem functioning by steering microbial community structure and dynamics.

Anaerobic granules for biogas and carboxylate production from saline wastewaters: high-throughput monitoring and engineering

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) - nanobiotechnology based platform for achieving the dynamics of individual molecules to versatile materials and cell mechanics

Autonomous self-healing in concrete induced by multiple bacterial metabolic pathways

Biodeposition and biological lime mortars for the (restoration-) building practice: proof of principle and upscaling (type 3)

Cementitious materials with selfhealing properties by using bacteria, polymers or pozzolans

Relation between inflammation of the gut and arthritis in spondyloarthropathy: cellular mechanisms and therapeutical implications

The role of aerobic nitrifying bacteria in organic contaminents removal

The role of bacteria in copepod feeding behavior to steer the energy flow at the basis of marine food webs

Sustainable methanotrophs: from ecology to microbial resource management

Sustainable ectoine production through methanotrophs and algae: from biogas to high-value product (EctoMet)

EPS management in the OLAND process

Fermentative granules for bio-production: from mechanisms of biofilm formation to real wastewater application

Gas chromatograph for high performance analysis of permanent gasses

Use of electricity for fermentation control and biochemicals production

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

Impact of Self-Healing Engineered materials on steel corrosion in reinforced Concrete

LactoControl: Controlling the balance between D- and L-lactate production and consumption in the human gut

Living plants in microbial fuel cells for clean, renewable, sustainable, efficient, in-situ bioenergy production

Mechanistic aspects of poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate interference in host-microbe interactions during larval development of asuaculture animals

Microbial precipitated Bio-Pd and Bio-Mn nanocrystals for the chemical transformation of halogenated contaminants

Microbial exodus as indicator for ecosystem stability

Microbially steered removal of REACH micropollutants in wastewater

Microbes as positive actors for more sustainable aquaculture

NoLIMITS: a Facility for Non-linear Optical Imaging, Spectroscopy and Fabrication

Underground hydrogen storage in carbonate saline aquifers - a multidisciplinary approach to elucidate the relationship between reactivity and flow.

Research that contributes to the quantification of the risk to humans of antimicrobial resistance transmission through the commensal microbiota present in foods

Development of novel anti-inflammatory strains to counterbalance dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disorders

Development of a 5-step treatment for the purification of waste water aquaculture

Development of an air purification strategy with microbially precipitated nanocatalysts.

Development of efficient and reliable microbial-based self-healing concrete.

Developing luminescent probes for on-site water quality assessment

Probiont-induced functional responses in aquatic organisms

Single-cell based analysis and sorting to study microbial (sub)populations.

Sunlight: Lipid-based, high value products and renewable energy from microalgae

Training Network for Self-Healing Materials: from Concepts to Market

Ultrafast-scanning tandem ICP-mass spectrometer for interference-free and highly-sensitive transient signal monitoring

Unicum - Additional unit for increased water loop closure

Strategic Institutional Partnership University of Queensland

Exploring and understanding the microbiome of the deep sea: a step towards the bioremediation of dumped munitions

Does the altered rumen microbiome of eco-friendlier cows cause more metabolic stress?