Yesterday marked a significant milestone as we secured a €200 million investment from the Growth Fund for our initiative, Holomicrobiome (www.holomicrobiome.nl). Combined with matching funds, our total budget will be approximately €400 million. This substantial investment aims to drive the Dutch economy forward while fostering a healthy and sustainable society. Today is a momentous day […]
Read More →The recent ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, was an exciting platform for researchers to delve into the fascinating realm of host-microbiome interactions and their role in protecting and restoring marine ecosystems. As the session chair, I witnessed groundbreaking presentations that shed light on the hidden world of microbes and their […]
Read More →Our former PhD-student Muhe Diao and coworkers published an article entitled “Succession of bacteria and archaea involved in the nitrogen cycle in a seasonally stratified lake” in the journal FEMS Microbiology Letters. Go to READ MORE and click on the link to read the paper.
Read More →Today our PhD-student Tom Theirlynck and coworkers published an article entitled “Diversity of the holopelagic Sargassum microbiome from the Great Altlantic Sargassum Belt to coastal stranding locations” in the journal Harmful Algae. Go to READ MORE and click on the link to read the paper.
Read More →Aschwin Engelen (CCMAR, Faro, Portugal) and I are organizing the session Host-microbiomes to protect and restore marine communities of animals, plants and algae in the ASLO-2023 Aquatic Sciences Meeting that will be held from 4-9 June, 2023 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, (https://www.aslo.org/palma-2023/). The session aims to bring together leading scientists who study the interactions of marine organisms […]
Read More →Today Meggie Hudspith defended her thesis entitled: Illuminating the nutritional nature of sponge-microbe symbioses.
Read More →Today Sara Campana and coworkers published an article entitled “Meta-transcriptomic comparison of two sponge holobionts feeding on coral- and macroalgal-dissolved organic matter” in the journal BMG Genomics. Go to READ MORE and click on the link to read the paper.
Read More →Today Sara Campana defended her thesis entitled: Inside the sponge engine – Metabolic responses of sponge holobionts to dissolved organic matter on changing coral reefs.
Read More →Today a publication by Xi Bai, Inez Dinkla and Gerard Muyzer entitled “Microbial ecology of biofiltration used for the production of safe drinking water” was published in the journal Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Go to READ MORE and click on the link to read the paper.
Read More →Read the interview with NewScientist on the giant bacterium Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica published in Science.
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