Code
3F000109
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Laboratory medicine
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
Keywords
persisters
Burkholderia
biofilm
Project description
The goal of this project is to gain a better insight in the molecular mechanisms responsible for antimicrobial resistance in Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates in planktonic and sessile cells. To this end we will carry out a full transcriptome analysis, using microarrays and qPCR