Code
3G037411
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2016
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Organic chemistry
- Other chemical sciences
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural plant production
Keywords
quorum sensing
allelochemicals
natural products
diatoms
Project description
The overall goal of this project concerns the isolation, identification and functional characterization of secondary metabolites of diatoms and their role as quorum sensing systems and as antimicrobial/quorum sensing disrupting chemicals. Methods for the bioassay guided isolation, purification, structure elucidation and synthesis of bioactive compounds produced by diatoms will be developed.