Project

Alliance Research Group: Crossfeed

Code
05L00515
Duration
15 July 2015 → 31 July 2021
Funding
Ghent University funding
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • (Bio)molecular modelling and design
    • Microbiology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
crossfeeding
 
Project description

The objective of this research alliance is to identify key bacterial players in the cross-feeding processes and to find out how the production of butyrate and propionate can be stimulated. The alliance research group aims to better map the cross-feeding mechanisms of butyrate- or propionate-producing micro-organisms with primary carbohydrate degraders and, given the rather limited knowledge on this, to work out the propionate production aspect in particular.