Projects of the department Microbial Ecology

Location Nieuwersluis
• The role of microbial diversity in the dynamics and stability of global methane consumption: microbial methane oxidation as model-system for microbial ecology
• Methanotrophic diversity and gene expression as controlling factors of global methane consumption.
• Ecology of iron-oxidizing bacteria in wetland environments
• Ecology of non-thermophilic freshwater crenarchaeota
• Resolving variability in plankton size and physiological status for satellite mapping of productivity of dominant algae and cyanobacteria in Inland and Coastal Waters
• The biochemical basis of niche differentiation among ammonia-oxidizing bacteria
• The role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in controlling sediment phosphorus preservation
• The effect of flooding on the diversity and activity of ammonia-oxidizing communities in mangrove soils
• Diversity and activity of sulfate- and nitrate-reducing communities in mangrove soils.
• The effect of temperature and nitrogen deposition on the diversity and activity of ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities.

Location Heteren
• Effect of plant-fungal interactions on bacterial traits in the rhizosphere
• The importance of mycophagy for the ecology and evolution of the bacterial genus Collimonas and for other soil bacteria
• Interactions between collimonads and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
• Suppression of plantpathogenic fungi as a result of interspecific bacterial interactions
• Interactions between fungi and bacteria in decaying wood
• Bacterial mycophagy related genes and metabolites with potential application
• EcoLink
• Crossing the frontiers of microbial ecology: investigating relevant spatial and temporal scales to unravel patterns in diversity and function
• Assessing the impact of genetically modified crops on beneficial soil fungi.
• Using ecogenomic approaches to develop microbial bioindicators of soil quality.
• Nitrogen availability in a warmer world: linking microbial N transformations at the genetic level and plant responses at the community level
• The ecology of bacterial individuality
• Exploitation of phyllosphere microbiology for the cleanup of environmental wastes