Project

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

Acronym

Collaboromics

Code

01G00615

Duration

01 January 2015 → 31 October 2021

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Nico Boon

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Bacteriology
- Microbiomes
Engineering and technology
- Environmental biotechnology diagnostics
- Environmental microorganism biotechnology

Keywords

collaboration isolation ecological relationships oil degradation

Project description

This project is the first, structured research program in collaboromics, i.e. collaborating teams of microorganisms. By understanding the ecological relations between different microbial members of a collaborome we will be able to isolate, collect and compose new, highly performing and highly stable synthetic microbial soncortia, eventually leading to a new generation of biotechnological applications of microbial communities.