Code
01GC2416
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 October 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Animal biology not elsewhere classified
- Ecology not elsewhere classified
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
- Systems biology not elsewhere classified
- Environmental science and management not elsewhere classified
- Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
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Medical and health sciences
- Immunology not elsewhere classified
- Laboratory medicine not elsewhere classified
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
- Immunology not elsewhere classified
- Laboratory medicine not elsewhere classified
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation not elsewhere classified
- Drug discovery and development not elsewhere classified
- Medicinal products not elsewhere classified
- Pharmaceutics not elsewhere classified
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry not elsewhere classified
- Pharmacology not elsewhere classified
- Pharmacotherapy not elsewhere classified
- Toxicology and toxinology not elsewhere classified
- Other pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified
- Immunology not elsewhere classified
- Laboratory medicine not elsewhere classified
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine not elsewhere classified
- Other veterinary sciences not elsewhere classified
- Agricultural and food sciences not elsewhere classified
Keywords
contaminant
agriculture
amphibians
mitigation
chytridiomycosis
Biodiversity
Project description
Urgent measures are necessary to mitigate the impact of the fungal amphibian skin disease chytridiomycosis, which is emblematic for global disease driven loss of biodiversity. Here we aim at steering chytrid epidemiology towards a state of host-pathogen co-existence instead of epidemics by exploiting micropredator community dynamics in a context of aquatic eutrophication and contamination.