New publication
After a long and difficult journey along all the high-impact journals, our manuscript on the active site of the copper-containing enzyme thiocyanate dehydrogenase has finally been published in PNAS. Go to READ MORE and click on get article.
Read More →PhD defense of Charlotte Vavourakis
Today Charlotte Vavourakis successfully defended her thesis entitled: A meta-omics view on prokaryotic life in hypersaline soda lakes.
Read More →Caulerpa – the largest cell on Earth
Go to READ MORE and click to watch the beautiful movie on the green alga Caulerpa – the largest cell on Earth.
Read More →Vacant PhD position
I have a PhD position available on the microbial ecology of sand filters used for the production of drinking water. Go to READ MORE and click on PhD position.
Read More →Excursion2Texel
Thursday October 17 we had our annual excursion to the Sulfter on Texel to collect microbial mats for our master course Microbial Ecology.
Read More →New publication
Today the article of Gerben Stouten, Carmen Hoogendoorn, Sieze Douwenga, Estelle Kilias, Gerard Muyzer and Robbert Kleerebezem entitled ‘Temperature as competitive strategy determining factor in pulse-fed aerobic bioreactors’ have been published online in ISME Journal. Please go to READ MORE and click on get article.
Read More →New publication
Today a new publication of Charlotte Vavourakis and others entitled ‘Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes shed new light on the microbial-mediated sulfur cycle in a Siberian soda lake’ was published in the journal BMC Biology. Go to READ MORE and click on https://rdcu.be/bPlB1 to read the paper.
Read More →Two publications in three days
This week TWO new publications on arsenic have been published. Go to READ MORE and click on the titles Exploring biodiversity and arsenic metabolism of microbiota inhabiting arsenic-rich groundwaters in Northern Italy and Transcriptomic analysis of two Thioalkalivibrio species under arsenite stress revealed a potential candidate gene for an alternative arsenite oxidation pathway to read […]
Read More →June 27 is World Microbiome Day
Go to READ MORE and click on World Microbiome Day to read more about this special day dedicated to microbiome research.
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