Microbiology
The Laboratory of Microbiology is engaged in research and education in biotransformations and interactions of microorganisms as well as their control. Moreover, it contributes to the exploitation of the generated knowledge in the application areas of Health & Food, Bioproducts & Energy and Environment & Sustainability.
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Investment of 14 million for better use of micro-organisms
Together with Wageningen University & Research and the Delft University of Technology, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest almost 25 million euros in research facility UNLOCK to study mixed microbial communities and their application. The research facility was approved and consists of equipment and human resources that will be used to gather knowledge on micro-organisms effectively.
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New European Marie Curie training projects approved
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Diana Machado de Sousa appointed as Personal Professor at Microbiology
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Investment of 14 million for better use of micro-organisms
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Two Wageningen science talents go to top foreign institutions
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Chlamydia-related bacteria discovered deep below the Arctic Ocean
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Recent publications
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Back to the Roots: Revisiting the Use of the Fiber-Rich Cichorium intybusL. Taproots
Advances in Nutrition 11 (2020)4. - ISSN 2161-8313 - p. 878 - 889. -
Immobilization of sulfate and thiosulfate-reducing biomass on sand under haloalkaline conditions
Science of the Total Environment 745 (2020). - ISSN 0048-9697 -
Multiple and flexible roles of facultative anaerobic bacteria in microaerophilic oleate degradation
Environmental Microbiology (2020). - ISSN 1462-2912