Project

Microbial Resource Management: investigating the microbial diversity in order to predict the ecosystem functionality

Code
3E004611
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Microbiology
    • Systems biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
Keywords
microbial resource management SHIME functional stability biodiversity
 
Project description

Using the human gut as a model system, we will investigate how microbial communities - characterized by different structures and functionalities - react under changing environmental conditions and biological invasion, in order to derive predictive ecological models. We will validate the obtained results working with human microbiota-associated mouse models challenged with physiologically relevant stressors.