Thesis projects for BSc and MSc students
The Laboratory of Microbiology offers graduation projects for BSc and MSc students in different research groups. Below you can find a list of currently available projects.
Our projects
Bacterial Genetics
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Engineering Microalgae for biofuel and Fatty acid production - A CRISPR-Cas based approach
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Seizing cell cycle of a synthetic cell
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Better genome editing tools through bacterial sex – Laboratory evolution of DNA nucleases
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Genome architecture – Designing a synthetic genome
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What’s on the menu? Molecular cuisine, or how to feed a synthetic cell
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Mining and expressing novel antimicrobials from sponge symbionts
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Exploiting the anti-CRISPR potential to enhance the CRISPR genome engineering toolbox
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Metabolic engineering of syngas utilizing microbes for chemical building blocks
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Shaping CRISPR scissors for genome editing in yeast
Microbial Evolution
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Cultivating Asgards, eukaryotes’ closest relatives
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Piecing together the prokaryote to eukaryote transition
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Chasing uncultivated Archaea – from genomics to cultivation
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Studying ecology and physiology of previously uncultivable anaerobic microbial communities.
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FISHing the closest microbial relative of the eukaryotic cell
Microbial Physiology
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Using electricity to supplement syngas fermentation for improved CO2 capture
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Elimination of two important greenhouse gases through transformation into products with high market value
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Handling stress; survival and growth strategies of acidophiles
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Alcohol metabolism in sulfate reducing bacteria
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Fermenting syngas to biodegradable plastics
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Thermoacidophilic bioreduction of elemental sulfur for the recovery of valuable metals
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Uncovering microbial interactions for methylated compounds
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Microbial synthesis gas fermentation for the production of bio-based products
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Halophilic microorganisms and the Anaerobic Digestion technology for high salinity wastewater treatment
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Isolation and characterization of novel short chain fatty acid (SCFA) producing microorganisms from human anaerobic ecosystem
Molecular Ecology
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Exploration of Microbial Reductive Dehalogenation in Marine Environments
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RumenPredict: predicting diet based GHG mitigating strategies in ruminants
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Hunt for microbial degradation of fluorinated pollutants (PFAS)
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Elimination of the two most important greenhouse gasses: methane and carbon dioxide
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Minimizing the impact of antibiotics: are prebiotics the answer to recover baby’s gut microbiota?
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Microbial networks of the infant gut
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Interspecies hydrogen transfer in the human gut ecosystem
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The intestinal microbiota composition and development of preterm infants in early life
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Towards a gut-microbiota-on-a-chip
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Mining and expressing novel antimicrobials from sponge symbionts